Facts and norms in law : interdisciplinary reflections on legal method / edited by Sanne Taekema, Bart van Klink, Wouter de Been

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taekema, Sanne, 1970- editor.

Klink, Bart van, editor.

De Been, Wouter, 1966- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legal research.

Law--Methodology.

Law.

Interdisciplinary research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

Facts and Norms in Law: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Legal Method presents an innovative collection of essays on the relationship between descriptive and normative elements in legal inquiry and legal practice. What role does empirical data play in law? New insights in philosophy, the social sciences and the humanities have forced the relationship between facts and norms on to the agenda, especially for legal scholars doing interdisciplinary work. This timely volume carefully combines critical perspectives from a range of different disciplinary traditions and theoretical positions.

Contents:

Foreword

Part I

1. Introduction / Wouter De Been, Sanne Taekema and Bart van Klink

2. Facts, values and norms / Jaap Hage

Part II

3. Imitation of life: resonances between law and fact and fact and law / Geoffrey Samuel

4. The epistemic dependence of judicial decision-makers / Rachel Herdy

5. Facts and norms in the behavioural assumptions of law / Péter Cserne

Part III

6. Legal doctrine is a non-normative discipline: an argument from abstract object theory / Anne Ruth Mackor

7. Systems theory, critique and law: to kill some darlings? / Lyana Francot

8. A law and economics perspective on normative analysis / Alessio M. Pacces

Part IV

9. Exploring the boundaries of law: on the is-ought distinction in Jellinek and Kelsen / Bart van Klink and Oliver W. Lembcke

10. The natural and the normative: the distinction, not the dichotomy, between facts and values in a broader context / Maksymilian Del Mar

11. How should lawyers use sociological ideas? juristic practice and social science / Roger Cotterrell

Part V

12. The need for audacious fully armed scholars: concluding reflections / Wibren van Der Burg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78536-109-0