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Political jurisprudence is a legal theory that some judicial decisions are motivated more by politics than by unbiased judgment. It selects material to illustrate general approaches to legal theory and to explore professional and political uses to which that theory has. Roger cotterrell, fba is the anniversary professor of legal theory at queen mary university of london and was made a fellow of the british academy in 2005. This will help prepare you, ultimately, for the examination. I am grateful to mauro zamboni for helpful comments, to jorgen dalberg. The politics of jurisprudence, a thorough book on legal philosophy and jurisprudence, forms only a tiny part of roger cotterrell s work.
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