J.M. Balkin, The Reason of Legal Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Legal Reason

  
These works are worth looking at for a general background in the concepts and arguments about concepts that comprise jurisprudence
JOURNAL ARTICLES

Feldman, Stephen M. From Premodern to Modern American Jurisprudence: The Onset of Positivism. 50 Vand. L. Rev. 1397 (1997)

Kress, Ken. Modern Jurisprudence, Postmodern Jurisprudence, and Truth. 95 Mich. L. Rev. 1871 (1997)

Posner, Richard. Conceptions of Legal "Theory": A Response to Ronald Dworkin (Discussion of In praise of theory. (29 Ariz. St. L. J. 353 (1997)) 29 Ariz. St. L. J. 377 (1997)

BOOKS

American Society for Legal History. Essays in Jurisprudence in Honor of Roscoe Pound. Edited by Ralph A. Newman, Earl Warren and others. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merril, 1962. Fuller, Lon L. The Law in Quest of Itself; Being a Series of Three Lectures Provided by the Julius Rosenthal Foundation for General Law, and Delivered at the Law School of Northwestern University at Chicago in April, 1940. Chicago: The Foundation Press, 1940. Habermas, Jurgen. Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996. Hall, Jerome. Comparative Law and Social Theory. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1963. Hall, Jerome. Studies in Jurisprudence and Criminal Theory. New York: Oceana Publications, 1958. Hart, Herbert Lionel Adolphus. Essays on Bentham: Studies in Jurisprudence and Political Theory. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. Hart, Herbert Lionel Adolphus. Definition and Theory in Jurisprudence: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on 30 May, 1953. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953. Kelsen, Hans. Introduction to the Problems of Legal Theory: A Translation of the first edition of the Reine Rechtslehre or Pure theory of law translated by Bonnie Litschewski Paulson and Stanley L. Paulson, introduction by Stanley L. Paulson. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Kronman, Anthony T. Max Weber. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1983. (Series: Jurists: profiles in legal theory)

Llewellyn, Karl Nickerson. Jurisprudence: Realism in Theory and Practice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.

Raz, Joseph. The Concept of a Legal System: An Introduction to the Theory of Legal System. 2d ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.