Juridical Law and Physical Law: Toward a Realist Foundation for Human Law

A short book published by the Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, in 1982 with a foreword by Lord Mackay of Clashfern, then Lord Advocate. In three chapters, "The Recovery of Ontology and Basic Belief", "The Problem of an In-Built Positivism" and "Toward a New Realism", Torrance carries his critique of positivism and his realist epistemology from the natural sciences into jurisprudence, arguing that human law needs a foundation in an objective order rather than in positive enactment alone.