Directives and Norms (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781584779612)

Reprint of the first American edition. One of the most interesting jurists of the post-World War II era, Ross 1899-1979] was a legal and moral philosopher, scholar of international law and the leading representative of Scandinavian Legal Realism. This book and On Law and Justice (1958) are his principal works. In Directives and Norms Ross asks whether imperatives (or, to use his term, 'directives') are subject to logic in the same way as indicatives. He shows the difference between indicative and directive discourse and explains the concepts 'directive' and 'norm' as they function in the social sciences, especially in the study of law. A contemporary essay in the Modern Law Review (32:544), though critical of this work, was still impressed by its "clear and convincing account" of these processes.

Author: Alf Ross
ISBN-10: 1584779616
ISBN-13: 9781584779612
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2009
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d