1. Its original form was that of an address to the I.V.R. World Congress in Basel in August, 1979. See N. MacCormick, ‘On Analytical Jurisprudence’, in P. Trappe (ed.), Conceptions Contemporaines du Droit I. 1 (Wiesbaden, 1982), pp. 29–41.
2. See in particular William Twining, ‘Some Jobs for Jurisprudence’, British Journal of Law and Society I (1974), 149–167;
3. William Twining,‘Academic Law and Legal Philosophy: The Significance of Herbert Hart’, L.Q.R. 95 (1979), 557–580. Although Twining is suspicious of the tendency of analytical jurisprudence to over-specialise itself into a form of ‘real tennis’, he is of course one of the most vigorous proponents of the view that general jurisprudence, pursued at several levels, is an essential part of legal education.
4. See, e.g., D. Hume, Essays Moral, Political and Literary (London, 1963), O.U.P.
5. See, e.g., J. Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, ed. by J. H. Burns and H. L. A. Hart (London, 1970).