ABSTRACT
This text began with a consideration of the essence of definitions of jurisprudence, and ends with a discussion of human rights. The first chapter included a suggestion (see 1.4) that the definitions of jurisprudence given in 1.4 be reconsidered at the end of the course. Is any one of the definitions, ranging from Ulpian to Schumpeter, adequate? Or is the essence of jurisprudence to be found, perhaps, in a much wider type of definition, such as that given by Wortley, in Jurisprudence (1967), in a reference to the subject-matter of his text as ‘law as prediction, order, rule, expectation, sense of value and justice’?
