1. The word jurisprudence is derived from a Greek maxim as referred ‘jurisprudentia’.
2. Jurisprudence is the study, knowledge, skill and theory of law.
3. Scholars of jurisprudence are known as jurists or legal theorists.
4. Modern jurisprudence began in the 17th century.
5. Contemporary philosophy of law, which deals with general jurisprudence, addresses problems in three groups.
6. Natural law is the idea that there are rational objective limits to the power of legislative rulers.
7. Legal positivism holds that there is no necessary connection between law and morality and that the force of law comes from some basic social facts.
8. Legal realism argues that the real world practice of law is what determines what law is; the law has the force that it does because of what legislators, barristers and judges do with it.
9. Critical legal studies are a younger theory of jurisprudence that has developed since the 1990s.
