The mind and method of the legal academic / Jan M. Smits.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smits, Jan M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Study and teaching.

Law.

Learning and scholarship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a context of changing times and current debate, this highly topical book discusses the aims, methods and organisation of legal scholarship. Jan Smits assesses the recent turn away from doctrinal research towards a more empirical and theoretical way of legal investigation and offers a fresh perspective on what it is that legal academics should deal with and how they should do it. The book also considers the consequences which follow for the organisation of the legal discipline by universities and uses this context to discuss the key questions of the internationalisation of law schools, quali

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: a discipline in crisis?; I. Legal science: a typology; II. The Homo juridicus: towards are definition of normative legal science; III. Methodology of normativelegal science; IV. Organization of the legal academic discourse; Synopsis; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-69875-7

0-85793-655-7

OCLC:

814694278