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Intro -- Roscoe Pound, The Ideal Element of Law -- Front Matter -- Title Page -- Copyright Details -- Table of Contens, p. v -- Foreword, p. vii -- Table of Cases, p. xix -- The Ideal Element in Law -- 1. Is There an Ideal Element in Law?, p. 1 -- 2. Natural Law, p. 32 -- 3. Law and Morals, p. 66 -- 4. Rights, Interests, and Values, p. 109 -- 5. The End of Law: Maintaining the Social Status Quo, p. 140 -- 6. Promotion of Free Self-Assertion: 1. The Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, p. 171 -- 7. Promotion of Free Self-Assertion, p. 200 -- 8. Maintaining and Furthering Civilization, p. 230 -- 9. Class Interest and Economic Pressure: The Marxian Interpretation, p. 257 -- 10. Later Forms of Juristic Realism, p. 288 -- 11. The Humanitarian Idea, p. 321 -- 12. The Authoritarian Idea, p. 348 -- Epilogue, p. 371 -- Glossary, p. 375 -- Bibliography of Works Cited, p. 387 -- Index, p. 415.

Philosophy of law is a branch of philosophy and jurisprudence which studies basic questions about law and legal systems, such as "what is law?", "what are the criteria for legal validity?", "what is the relationship between law and morality?", and many other similar questions. Philosophers of law are also concerned with a variety of philosophical problems that arise in particular legal subjects, such as constitutional law, contract law, criminal law, and torts. Thus, philosophy of law addresses such diverse topics as theories of contract law, theories of criminal punishment, theories of tort liability, and the question whether judicial review is justified.

For centuries Europeans ruled vast portions of the world, as inhabitants of west European countries sailed to distant continents and took possession of territories whose societies and economies they set out to change. How and why did these farflung empires form, persist, and finally fall? David Abernethy addresses these questions in this magisterial survey of the rise and decline of European overseas empires.Abernethy identifies broad patterns across time and space, interweaving them with fascinating details of cross-cultural encounters. He argues that relatively autonomous profit-making, religious, and governmental institutions enabled west European countries to launch triple assaults on other societies. Indigenous people also played a role in their eventual subjugation by inviting Europeans to intervene in their power struggles. Abernethy finds that imperial decline was often the unanticipated result of wars among major powers. Postwar crises over colonies' unmet expectations empowered movements that eventually took territories as diverse as the thirteen British North American colonies, Spain's South American possessions, India, the Dutch East Indies, Vietnam, and the Gold Coast to independence.In advancing a theory of imperialism that includes European and non-European actors, and in analyzing economic, social, and cultural as well as political dimensions of empire, Abernethy helps account for Europe's long occupation of global center stage. He also sheds light on key features of today's postcolonial world and the legacies of empire, concluding with an insightful approach to the moral evaluation of colonialism