This guide will assist students in answering assessment questions on jurisprudence and legal theory. It explains the most common forms of assignment and exam questions and how to approach answering them. The guide includes three past exam questions with answers to demonstrate what markers are looking for. The guide outlines the key ideas of the most discussed legal theories and theorists in easy to understand language. The following theories/ theorists are summarised: natural law theory, Aristotle, Aquinas, Fuller, Finnis, Legal Positivism, HLA Hart, Austin, Bentham, Legal Formalism, Liberalism, Kant, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Dworkin, Rawls, Feminist Legal Theory (liberal, radical, cultural), Marxist Legal Theory, Legal Realism, Holmes, Llewellyn, Frank, Indigenous Legal Theory, and Critical Legal Studies.