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| Format: | Recurso digital |
| Language: | English |
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Zenodo
2026
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18444975 |
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- <p>Introduction <br>This concluding chapter synthesises the diverse theoretical, doctrinal, and <br>practice-oriented insights explored in Reimagining Jurisprudence: <br>Nigerian Perspectives on Law, Theory, and Practice. The volume brings <br>together a wide range of jurisprudential engagements that collectively <br>affirm the necessity of rethinking law beyond rigid formalism and abstract <br>theorisation. Across its chapters, the book demonstrates that jurisprudence <br>in Nigeria must evolve as a living discipline—one that responds <br>meaningfully to social transformation, institutional complexity, economic <br>pressures, technological disruption, and shifting conceptions of justice and <br>governance. <br>At its core, this volume rejects the notion of law as a closed and self<br>referential system of rules. Instead, it advances an understanding of law as <br>a normative, social, and ethical enterprise shaped by historical legacies, <br>political structures, cultural pluralism, and socio-economic realities. <br>Nigerian jurisprudence, as presented in this book, is not merely concerned <br>with what the law is, but with what the law ought to be in a society marked <br>by inequality, diversity, contestation, and aspiration. The chapters <br>collectively interrogate how legal ideas influence behaviour, institutions, <br>and power relations, and how jurisprudence can serve as a tool for critique, <br>reform, and social progress. <br>This concluding reflection therefore situates the book as part of a broader <br>scholarly effort to revitalise jurisprudential thinking in Nigeria—one that <br>bridges theory and practice, foregrounds local realities, and contributes to <br>the development of a responsive and principled legal order. </p>