DIRECTIVES AND NORMSRoss, Alf; Loar, BrianItem #: 67884 Pages: ix, 188 pp. Published: OE; Humanities Press; Reprinted in 2009. Reprint of the first American edition. One of the mostinteresting jurists of the post-World War II era, Ross was alegal and moral philosopher, scholar of international lawand the leading representative of Scandinavian LegalRealism. This book and On Law and Justice (1958) are hisprincipal works. In Directives and Norms Ross asks whetherimperatives (or, to use his term, 'directives') are subjectto logic in the same way as indicatives. He shows thedifference between indicative and directive discourse andexplains the concepts 'directive' and 'norm' as theyfunction in the social sciences, especially in the study oflaw. 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. Reprintedby Lawbook Exch., Ltd. Distributed by William Hein & Co.,Inc Please contact us to request purchasing information. |