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Historical Background
The policy science school of jurisprudence was
proposed by two Yale University professors
during the Second World War
Historical Background
HAROLD LASSWELL
Renowned political scientist, instrumental inthe
creation of three interdisciplinary fields:
communications and public opinion, political
psychology, and policy sciences
Historical Background
MYRES MCDOUGAL
Renowned authority on international law
Definition of Terms
Policy
settled guidance, strategy or program adopted by
the legal order
Policy Science
discipline concerned with the formation,
clarification, and realization concerned with the
social values
Policy Science School of Jurisprudence
Policy science regards the view that there are
no moral principles that consciously precede
the law as dangerous, leading in fact to
ruinous and destructive conflicts
Policy Science School of Jurisprudence
It emphasized the integration of
interdisciplinary studies (social sciences) into
law and to the development of legal policy
grounded in the political and moral values of
Western liberal democracies freedom,
toleration, and equality and that applied
universally
Policy Science School of Jurisprudence
It underscores the need for the eventual
identification of basic social values in the legal
orders of all societies