William Twining, General Jurisprudence: Understanding Law from a Global Perspective

Abstract

William Twining claims that it is time for a radical rethink of the way jurisprudenceis taught. Adopting a global and pluralistic perspective can point the wayto what is wrong and how things may be changed. Twining’s earliest intellectualexperiences concerning law were garnered at Oxford under the influence of HLAHart. These experiences were plainly powerful and long lasting, for his argumentrests on an engagement with and radical resetting of the role of legal positivismin legal theory.