Epistemology and Method in Law

Geoffrey Samuel (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

416 Seiten

2003
Dartmouth Publishing Co Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-85521-599-3 (ISBN)

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This work seeks to answer the question: "What does thinking like a lawyer actually involve"? The focus is mainly on English common law, but the text aims to contribute to comparative law, in as much as it is concerned with the "law" question.

This book seeks to question the widely held assumption in Europe that to have knowledge of law is simply to have knowledge of rules. There is a knowledge dimension beyond the symbolic which reaches right into the way facts are perceived, constructed and deconstructed. In support of this thesis the book examines, generally, the question of what it is to have knowledge of law; and this examination embraces not just the conceptual foundations, methods, taxonomy and theories used by jurists. It also examines the epistemological schemes used by social scientists in general in order to show that such schemes are closely related to the schemes of intelligibility used by lawyers and judges.

Geoffrey Samuel, Kent Law School, UK

Contents: The scope of legal epistemology; Scientia Iuris; Methodologies in law; Institutions and concepts; Facts and law; Taxonomy in law; Theories of liability; Schemes of intelligibility in Social Science; Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.2.2003
Reihe/Serie	Applied Legal Philosophy
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	816 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	1-85521-599-3 / 1855215993
ISBN-13	978-1-85521-599-3 / 9781855215993
Zustand	Neuware