Research Handbook on Legal Evolution / Wojciech Zaluski, Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde, and Adam Dyrda, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Załuski, Wojciech, editor.

Bourgeois-Gironde, Sacha, editor.

Dyrda, Adam, editor.

Series:

Research handbooks in legal theory.

Research Handbooks in Legal Theory Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (514 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, [2024]

Summary:

Adopting an evolutionary perspective, this Research Handbook presents novel and cutting-edge insights into the interdisciplinary field of legal evolution. Engaging with various scientific approaches, it provides a versatile analysis of legal evolution, examining the field as a whole as well as in the context of specific branches of law.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Figures

Tables

Contributors

Introduction

PART I NATURALISM, EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND THE LAW

1. Can law be naturalized? Legal normativity, moral standards, and political obligation

2. On the use and misuse of (biological) evolutionary theory in the analysis of law

3. Law from an evolutionary perspective

4. Evolution by replication of deontic units

5. Darwin's and Darwinian theories of institutions

PART II LAW IN EVOLUTION: MECHANISM AND PATTERNS OF LEGAL CHANGE

Section II.A General Issues

6. The fairness model of legal institutions

7. Law, theology, and development

8. On the progress in law from the evolutionary perspective

9. On an 'evolutionary' theory of legal systems

Section II.B Branches

10. Evolution of Roman law

11. Grasping international law: An evolutionary paradigm?

12. Evolution of contracting

13. The evolution of legal marriage: Drawing possible futures of the institution

14. Evolution of animal law

15. Nature in the law: An evolution from environmental law to legal ecocentrism

Section II.C Principles

16. Evolution of political freedom

17. The separation of powers: Old, new, and newest

18. The co-evolution of emotions and constitutions

19. Punishment and social standing in an evolutionary perspective

20. The evolution of testimony

PART III LEGAL THEORY IN EVOLUTIONARY FOCUS

21. Norm individuation: A passage in time

22. Evolutionary and static interpretation

23. The growth of legal meaning: The pragmatist perspective

24. Evolutionary theory and legal adjudication: Substrata for a predictive theory of legal science

PART IV EVOLUTION OF LEGAL-PHILOSOPHICAL DOCTRINES

25. The evolution of natural law.

26. The evolution of legal positivism: Reflections on continuity and discontinuity in the positivist tradition

27. The evolution of Scandinavian legal realism

28. A 'Bettabilitarian' jurisprudence: Pragmatic evolutionism in the jurisprudence of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

29. Evolution of law and economics

30. Ethics of care: Its evolution and significance for law

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-80392-182-X