Jurisprudence: Theories and Concepts
Covers major schools of jurisprudence including analytical, normative, natural law, and historical approaches. Tests knowledge of key jurists such as Hart, Raz, Austin, and Julius Stone, along with fundamental legal philosophy concepts.
Questions
In which country are the courts not bound by the decisions of superior courts?
- France
- United States
- Canada
- Australia
Who has defined jurisprudence as lawyer’s extroversion?
- Friedman
- RWM Dias
- Julius Stone
- Ronald Dworkin
What is analytical jurisprudence?
- The critical analysis of legal decisions
- A sociological method to analyse legal systems
- The study of what the law is
- None of these
Who held the view that custom is not a source of law unless it has received judicial recognition or it has been embodied in a statue?
- Austin
- Savigny
- Kohler
- Puchta
Law, according to Joseph Raz, is a
- social engineering
- social fact
- political principle
- normative science
What is jurisprudence?
- The study of legal decisions
- All intellectual enquiries about law
- The study of what law is
- All of the above
H. L. A. Hart is a
- linguistic philosopher
- realist philosopher
- socialist philosopher
- post-modernist philosopher
What is normative jurisprudence?
- The evaluation of the law on the basis of criteria for what constitutes good law
- The study of legal norms
- The theory that law normalises people
- None of these
Historical school of jurists recognised that custom law is superior to
- delegation
- legislation
- precedents
- All of the above
What is natural law?
- The law of natural pheonmena
- The idea that law is based on certain immutable principles intrinsic to human beings
- The idea that law is natural
- All of the above
Match the following:
| List–I (Concepts) | List–II (Jurists) |
| I. Minimum content of law | 1. Fuller |
| II. Inner morality of law | 2. Hart |
| III. Law with a variable content | 3. Kohler |
| IV. Law as a phenomenon of civilisation | 4. Stammler |
- I - 3, II - 1, III - 2, IV - 4
- I - 2, II - 3, III - 4, IV - 1
- I - 2, II - 1, III - 4, IV - 3
- I - 1, II - 2, III - 3, IV - 4
Match the following:
| List–I |
<b>(Theories)</b>| <b>List–II</b>
<b>(Jurists)</b>|
|(I) The general will theory| 1. Kelsen|
|(II) Justice as common good| 2. Ihering|
|(III) Law as a means to achieve social ends| 3. Rousseau|
|(IV) Grundnorm theory| 4. Finnis|
- (i) - 2, (ii) - 4, (iii) - 1, (iv) - 3
- (i) - 2, (ii) - 3, (iii) - 4, (iv) - 1
- (i) - 3, (ii) - 2, (iii) - 1, (iv) - 4
- (i) - 3, (ii) - 4, (iii) - 2, (iv) - 1