SCHOOLS OF JURISPRUDENCE include:
A(i) NATURAL LAW (Aquinas, Finnis); (ii) ANALYTICAL POSITIVISM (Austin, Kelsen, Hart, Raz); (iii) HISTORICAL (Savigny, Maine); (iv) SOCIOLOGICAL (Pound, Ehrlich); (v) REALIST (Holmes, Frank, Llewellyn); (vi) CRITICAL (CLS, Feminist Jurisprudence, Critical Race Theory)
Bonly natural law (cf. Schools of Jurisprudence) (cf. Schools of Jurisprudence) (cf. Schools of Jurisprudence) (cf. Schools of Jurisprudence) (cf. Schools of Jurisprudence) (cf. Schools of Jurisprudence) (cf. Schools of Jurisprudence)
Conly positivism (cf. Schools of Jurisprudence) (cf. Schools of Jurisprudence) (cf. Schools of Jurisprudence) (cf. Schools of Jurisprudence) (cf. Schools of Jurisprudence) (cf. Schools of Jurisprudence) (cf. Schools of Jurisprudence)
Donly sociological (cf. Schools of Jurisprudence) (cf. Schools of Jurisprudence) (cf. Schools of Jurisprudence) (cf. Schools of Jurisprudence) (cf. Schools of Jurisprudence) (cf. Schools of Jurisprudence) (cf. Schools of Jurisprudence)
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. (i) NATURAL LAW (Aquinas, Finnis); (ii) ANALYTICAL POSITIVISM (Austin, Kelsen, Hart, Raz); (iii) HISTORICAL (Savigny, Maine); (iv) SOCIOLOGICAL (Pound, Ehrlich); (v) REALIST (Holmes, Frank, Llewellyn); (vi) CRITICAL (CLS, Feminist Jurisprudence, Critical Race Theory)
1. Major SCHOOLS OF JURISPRUDENCE:
2. (i) NATURAL LAW: law is derived from morality/reason; key thinkers — St. Thomas Aquinas, Hugo Grotius, John Locke; modern: John Finnis, Lon Fuller.
3. (ii) ANALYTICAL POSITIVISM: law is a social fact, separable from morality; key thinkers — Jeremy Bentham, John Austin (command theory), Hans Kelsen (pure theory), H.L.A. Hart, Joseph Raz.
4. (iii) HISTORICAL: law is the product of historical evolution and the volksgeist (spirit of the people); key thinkers — Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Henry Maine.
5. (iv) SOCIOLOGICAL: law as a social institution; functional analysis; key thinkers — Roscoe Pound (social engineering), Eugen Ehrlich (living law), Émile Durkheim, Max Weber.
6. (v) AMERICAN LEGAL REALISM: focus on what courts actually do; key thinkers — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Karl Llewellyn, Jerome Frank.
7. (vi) CRITICAL LEGAL STUDIES (CLS): law as ideology; reveal hidden hierarchies and class biases; key thinkers — Roberto Unger, Duncan Kennedy, Mark Tushnet.
8. (vii) FEMINIST JURISPRUDENCE: gender critique of law; key thinkers — Catharine MacKinnon, Carol Gilligan.
9. (viii) CRITICAL RACE THEORY (CRT): race critique; key thinkers — Derrick Bell, Kimberlé Crenshaw.
10. (ix) LAW AND ECONOMICS: economic analysis of law; key thinkers — Ronald Coase, Richard Posner, Gary Becker.
11. Hence option B is correct.
_Source: Legal Research Methodology + Jurisprudence — Schools of Jurisprudence_
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