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

William Twining claims that it is time for a radical rethink of the way jurisprudence is taught. Adopting a global and pluralistic perspective can point the way to what is wrong and how things may be changed. Twining’s earliest intellectual experiences concerning law were garnered at Oxford under the influence of HLA Hart. These experiences were plainly powerful and long lasting, for his argument rests on an engagement with and radical resetting of the role of legal positivism in legal theory