Philo midterm

Philosophy

Rational investigation – method used in answer problems is rational in nature

John Austin – Jurisprudence definition

- Attempts to study diff and commonalities of the legal systems in order to find commonalities of
those systems

Legal theory – 3

Philosophy –

Jurisprudence –

Diff of the last two, j studies what is law and what it ought to be while philo plays attention to the

Perspective

Philo – philosophical

Juris – interdiscpplinary in nature

2 major school of thoughts attempted to answer the nature of law

Natural law theory

Legal positivist