Jurisprudence is a comprehensive treatment of the subject by many of the legal theorists in South Africa. Each of the major schools of jurisprudence, as well as a number of the major issues  in jurisprudence, are discussed in a sophisticated yet accessible style. Each of the schools is assessed for its relevance to South Africa and South African law.Further, Jurisprudence provides the reader with an introduction that contains a meta-theoretical approach and set of tools for systematically evaluating the many and various theoretical claims found within the book and in the subject more generally.

• Mapping jurisprudential terrain in search for truth in law
• Natural law theories
• Legal positivism
• Third path theorists: between positivism and natural law
• Historical jurisprudence
• Marxism and the law
• Legal realism
• law and economics
• Interpretative approaches to legal theory
• Critical legal studies
• Critical race theory
• Feminism and the law
• Gay and lesbian legal theory
• Post modernism and the law
• Justice and the law: liberals, redistribution, capitalists and their critics
• Communitarian and civic republican theories
• ‘Traditional’ African jurisprudence
• Islamic jurisprudence
• Traditional Chinese jurisprudence and its relevance to South African legal thought
• The duty to obey the law
• Legal punishment
• Law in context of globalisation: the demands of justice
• Transitional/transformative jurisprudence: law in a changing society

• Law students
• Academics
• Law libraries
• Legal practitioners