id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5421 Jurisprudence - Wikipedia .html text/html 8612 1192 60 Jurisprudence, or legal theory, is the theoretical study of law. It espouses the use of a neutral point of view and descriptive language when referring to aspects of legal systems.[4] It encompasses such theories of jurisprudence as "legal positivism", which holds that there is no necessary connection between law and morality and that the force of law comes from basic social facts;[5] and "legal realism", which argues that the real-world practice of law determines what law is, the law having the force that it does because of what legislators, lawyers, and judges do with it. The most internationally influential advocacy for a "sociological jurisprudence" occurred in the United States, where, throughout the first half of the twentieth century, Roscoe Pound, for many years the Dean of Harvard Law School, used this term to characterise his legal philosophy. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5421.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5421.txt