On Law And Justice [Hardcover]

Reprint of the 1959 edition. Originally published: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959. xi, 383 pp. In this influential and oft-cited study Ross discounted the theories of natural law, positivism and legal realism. In their stead, he proposed the abandonment of ought-propositions for the is-propositions employed by other empirical sciences, thereby envisioning lawyers that serve merely as rational technologists. Less bound by tradition, and traditional notions of justice, jurisprudence then becomes not only a beautiful mental activity per se, but also an instrument which may benefit any lawyer who wants to understand what he is doing and why (Preface).