Research Handbook on Epistemologies of Law.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Siliquini Cinelli, Luca.

Contributor:

Siliquini Cinelli, Luca.

Neoh, Joshua

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Research handbooks in legal theory.

Research Handbooks in Legal Theory Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Artificial intelligence--Law and legislation.

Artificial intelligence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (679 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

This Research Handbook explores recent developments in legal education and practice. It covers the increasing reliance on technology to teach law and perform legal tasks, including a surge in the use of artificial intelligence (AI), alongside changing definitions of what it means to attain, retain, and use legal knowledge.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

List of contributors

Foreword - legal epistemology: what is its basis and scope?

Research handbook on epistemologies of law: introduction

PART A: Legal Knowledge in Theory: Philosophical Perspectives

Chapter 1: Imagination: the neglected dimension of legal thinking

Chapter 2: A convergence of legal pluralism and legal realism to expound legal epistemology

Chapter 3: Temporalities and the epistemology of historical injustice adjudication

Chapter 4: Rhetoric and epistemology in the legal context

Chapter 5: Can contract law be good? When the reasonable person goes to market

Chapter 6: The faithful person as the legal person

PART B: Legal Knowledge in Practice: Sociological Perspectives

Chapter 7: The other side of legal knowledge: the Lacanian discourse as legal epistemology

Chapter 8: The paradox of objectivity: objective legal knowledge in a socio-political context of creation and use

Chapter 9: Epistemology of equilibrium

Chapter 10: Theories and practices of knowledge and the universal particular in epistemology

Chapter 11: The burden of knowing, the joy of ignorance

PART C: Conceptual Analysis of Legal Knowledge: Analytic Jurisprudence

Chapter 12: Intuition as a source of legal knowledge

Chapter 13: Legal epistemology from a natural perspective: the role of practical reasoning in thinking like a lawyer

Chapter 14: Is it possible to have legal knowledge without legal inference?

Chapter 15: Dworkin's right answer thesis

PART D: Legal Knowledge Across Borders: Comparative Perspectives

Chapter 16: Disrupting boundaries in legal epistemology: updating modern legal systems with the rights of nature in a comparative perspective

Chapter 17: Models as tools of legal cognition.

Chapter 18: A logic of discovery and verification for comparative legal science

Chapter 19: Is the expression 'theory' problematic?

PART E: Reform of Legal Knowledge: Law Reform

Chapter 20: What molluscs tell us about environmental law

Chapter 21: The construction of knowledge in financial regulation

Chapter 22: Who can tell if an offender is truly remorseful? Judges' use of psychologists' and psychiatrists' evidence of remorse

Chapter 23: Legal epistemologies: what is going on in the classroom?

Chapter 24: Engendering the rule of law: tautology or trick?

PART F: Legal Knowledge of the Future: Law and Technology

Chapter 25: Learning to think en masse: trading selectivity for comprehensiveness in the age of databases

Chapter 26: Epistemic trustworthiness of AI: (the necessity of) explainable AI in legal decision-making

Chapter 27: 'Emotional facts' in virtual environments: epistemological and legal status

Chapter 28: Legal epistemology and artificial intelligence: can computers (like students) learn and apply law (and will law faculties become intellectually irrelevant)?

Chapter 29: Why law may very well be computable: the case of the reasonable person

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-03-534800-4

1-03-538235-0

9781035348008

OCLC:

1570556213