Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mapping the jurisprudential terrain in the search for truth in law - - Natural law theories -- Legal positivism -- Third path theorists : be tween positivism and natural law, Fuller and Dworkin -- Historical juri sprudence -- Marxism and the law -- Legal realism -- Law and economics -- Interpretative approaches to legal theory -- Critical legal studies -- Critical race theory -- Feminism and the law -- Gay and lesbian lega l theory -- Postmodernism(s) and the law -- Justice and the law : liber als, redistribution, capitalists, and their critics -- Communitarian an d civic republican theories -- 'Traditional' African jurisprudence -- I slamic jurisprudence -- Traditional Chinese jurisprudence and its relev ance to South African legal thought -- The duty to obey the law -- Lega l punishment -- Law in the context of globalisation : the demands of ju stice -- Transitional/transformative jurisprudence : law in a changing society.