Epistemology And Method In Law

Author : Geoffrey Samuel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351939348

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Epistemology and Method in Law by Geoffrey Samuel Pdf

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.

Author : Mark Van Hoecke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847311245

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Epistemology and Methodology of Comparative Law by Mark Van Hoecke Pdf

Whereas many modern works on comparative law focus on various aspects of legal doctrine the aim of this book is of a more theoretical kind - to reflect on comparative law as a scholarly discipline, in particular at its epistemology and methodology. Thus, among its contents the reader will find: a lively discussion of the kind of 'knowledge' that is, or could be, derived from comparative law; an analysis of 'legal families' which asks whether we need to distinguish different 'legal families' according to areas of law; essays which ask what is the appropriate level for research to be conducted - the technical 'surface level', a 'deep level' of ideology and legal practice, or an 'intermediate level' of other elements of legal culture, such as the socio-economic and historical background of law. One part of the book is devoted to questioning the identification and demarcation of a 'legal system' (and the clash between 'legal monism' and 'legal pluralism') and the definition of the European legal orders, sub-State legal orders, and what is left of traditional sovereign State legal systems; while a final part explores the desirability and possibility of developing a basic common legal language, with common legal principles and legal concepts and/or a legal meta-language, which would be developed and used within emerging European legal doctrine. All the papers in this collection share the common goal of seeking answers to fundamental, scientific problems of comparative research that are too often neglected in comparative scholarship.

Author : Ashk Dahlen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135943554

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Islamic Law, Epistemology and Modernity by Ashk Dahlen Pdf

This study analyses the major intellectual positions in the philosophical debate on Islamic law that is occurring in contemporary Iran. As the characteristic features of traditional epistemic considerations have a direct bearing on the modern development of Islamic legal thought, the contemporary positions are initially set against the established normative repertory of Islamic tradition. It is within this broad examination of a living legacy of interpretation that the context for the concretizations of traditional as well as modern Islamic learning, are enclosed.

Author : P.J. Nerhot
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401578752

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Law, Interpretation and Reality by P.J. Nerhot Pdf

PATRICKNERHOT Since the two operations overlap each other so much, speaking about fact and interpretation in legal science separately would undoubtedly be highly artificial. To speak about fact in law already brings in the operation we call interpretation. EquaHy, to speak about interpretation is to deal with the method of identifying reality and therefore, in large part, to enter the area of the question of fact. By way of example, Bemard Jackson's text, which we have placed in section 11 of the first part of this volume, could no doubt just as weH have found a horne in section I. This work is aimed at analyzing this interpretation of the operation of identifying fact on the one hand and identifying the meaning of a text on the other. All philosophies of law recognize themselves in the analysis they propose for this interpretation, and we too shall seek in this volume to fumish a few elements of use for this analysis. We wish however to make it clear that our endeavour is addressed not only to legal philosophers: the nature of the interpretive act in legal science is a matter of interest to the legal practitioner too. He will find in these pages, we believe, elements that will serve hirn in rcflcction on his daily work.

Author : Michael Giudice
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351542616

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The Methodology of Legal Theory by Michael Giudice Pdf

The last decade has witnessed a particularly intensive debate over methodological issues in legal theory. The publication of Julie Dickson's Evaluation and Legal Theory (2001) was significant, as were collective returns to H.L.A. Hart's 'Postscript' to The Concept of Law. While influential articles have been written in disparate journals, no single collection of the most important papers exists. This volume - the first in a three volume series - aims not only to fill that gap but also propose a systematic agenda for future work. The editors have selected articles written by leading legal theorists, including, among others, Leslie Green, Brian Leiter, Joseph Raz, Ronald Dworkin, and William Twining, and organized under four broad categories: 1) problems and purposes of legal theory; 2) the role of epistemology and semantics in theorising about the nature of law; 3) the relation between morality and legal theory; and 4) the scope of phenomena a general jurisprudence ought to address.

Author : P.J. Nerhot
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401132602

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Legal Knowledge and Analogy by P.J. Nerhot Pdf

3 of law as an object that has always already been there, systematic and com plete. Quite the contrary. Some, indeed practically all of us, reject this sort of epistemology of law, and where the hypothesis of the coherence of the legal universe is put forward, this is in order to define it in very noticeably different terms from those traditionally used in legal scholarly accounts. If this referent, the law presented as a full discourses, runs through all of the contributions, this is because reasoning by analogy has to be found its specific place within this legal culture. It is the place to locate the problem of "lacunae" in law, which at bottom allows our various contributions to be classified. With Zaccaria and Maris, the question of lacunae is accepted as such (this is, we might say, the "traditionalist" aspect of these two articles, which is counterbalanced by - keeping to the same terminology - "modernist" emphases, sometimes Dworkinian in nature), and becomes the backdrop for considerations of purely hermeneutic type, in Zaccaria, ex tended in Maris to the field of ethics. The papers from Lenoble and Jackson, the former philosophical and the latter semiological, take as their main tar get this legal knowledge where the theory of lacunae finds its place.

Author : Michael D. Roumeliotis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060931446

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A Study of Epistemology in Legal Theory by Michael D. Roumeliotis Pdf

Author : Larry Laudan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139457088

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Truth, Error, and Criminal Law by Larry Laudan Pdf

Beginning with the premise that the principal function of a criminal trial is to find out the truth about a crime, Larry Laudan examines the rules of evidence and procedure that would be appropriate if the discovery of the truth were, as higher courts routinely claim, the overriding aim of the criminal justice system. Laudan mounts a systematic critique of existing rules and procedures that are obstacles to that quest. He also examines issues of error distribution by offering the first integrated analysis of the various mechanisms - the standard of proof, the benefit of the doubt, the presumption of innocence and the burden of proof - for implementing society's view about the relative importance of the errors that can occur in a trial.

Author : Mark van Hoecke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Comparative law
ISBN : 1472559584

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Epistemology and Methodology of Comparative Law by Mark van Hoecke Pdf

Author : Igor Hanzel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 079235852X

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The Concept of Scientific Law in the Philosophy of Science and Epistemology by Igor Hanzel Pdf

"In this book Igor Hanzel reconstructs the developmental stages of scientific law, working both with the history of different conceptions of scientific explanation and also within the limitations of each, which then demand further sophistication. As one basic argument of this work, which is deeply analytic as well as dialectical, the author shows that the natural and the social sciences do not operate exclusively with one type of scientific law, nor do they explain phenomena by means of one exclusive method. Thus science is not mono-paradigmatic, but poly-paradigmatic."--Jacket.

Author : V.P. Salnikov,S.I. Zakhartsev
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781527517875

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The Philosophy of Law and Legal Science by V.P. Salnikov,S.I. Zakhartsev Pdf

The book explores a variety of problems connected to philosophy and philosophy of law. It discusses the problem of monism-pluralism in philosophy and philosophy of law, criticizes philosophy of post-positivism and postmodernism, and investigates dialectics as a universal global methodological basis of scientific cognition and philosophy of law. The volume also pays particular attention to contemporary legal education, offering potential solutions to problems in this field. The book is the result of a range of sociological studies conducted both in Russia and abroad concerning the legal process and legal consciousness.

Author : Aulis Aarnio
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400716551

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Essays on the Doctrinal Study of Law by Aulis Aarnio Pdf

Essays on the Doctrinal Study of Law is a summary of the author’s 40 years of research in the fields of civil law and the philosophy of law. The main focus is on the two main tasks in the doctrinal study of law: the interpretation and systematisation of legal norms. In this regard, Professor Aarnio deals with the theory of argumentation as well as with its foundations - i.e., with the ontology, epistemology and methodology of legal thinking - and develops the ideas that were first presented in The Rational as Reasonable (Kluwer 1987) in all of these dimensions. The work includes an updated discussion on the writings of Robert Alexy, Jûrgen Habermas, Ronald Dworkin and Alf Ross. A focal point of view concerns the distinction between positivism and non-positivism, in which the core of the criticism focuses on Scandinavian realism.

Author : M. Bunge
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400970274

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Epistemology & Methodology I: by M. Bunge Pdf

In this Introduction we shall state the business of both descriptive and normative epistemology, and shall locate them in the map oflearning. This must be done because epistemology has been pronounced dead, and methodology nonexisting; and because, when acknowledged at all, they are often misplaced. 1. DESCRIPTIVE EPISTEMOLOGY The following problems are typical of classical epistemology: (i) What can we know? (ii) How do we know? (iii) What, if anything, does the subject contribute to his knowledge? (iv) What is truth? (v) How can we recognize truth? (vi) What is probable knowledge as opposed to certain knowledge? (vii) Is there a priori knowledge, and if so of what? (viii) How are knowledge and action related? (ix) How are knowledge and language related? (x) What is the status of concepts and propositions? In some guise or other all of these problems are still with us. To be sure, if construed as a demand for an inventory of knowledge the first problem is not a philosophical one any more than the question 'What is there?'. But it is a genuine philosophical problem if construed thus: 'What kinds of object are knowable-and which ones are not?' However, it is doubtful that philosophy can offer a correct answer to this problem without the help of science and technology. For example, only these disciplines can tell us whether man can know not only phenomena (appearances) but also noumena (things in themselves or self-existing objects).

Author : Łucja Biel,Jan Engberg,Rosario Martín Ruano,Vilelmini Sosoni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351031202

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Research Methods in Legal Translation and Interpreting by Łucja Biel,Jan Engberg,Rosario Martín Ruano,Vilelmini Sosoni Pdf

The field of Legal translation and interpreting has strongly expanded over recent years. As it has developed into an independent branch of Translation Studies, this book advocates for a substantiated discussion of methods and methodology, as well as knowledge about the variety of approaches actually applied in the field. It is argued that, complex and multifaceted as it is, legal translation calls for research that might cross boundaries across research approaches and disciplines in order to shed light on the many facets of this social practice. The volume addresses the challenge of methodological consolidation, triangulation and refinement. The work presents examples of the variety of theoretical approaches which have been developed in the discipline and of the methodological sophistication which is currently being called for. In this regard, by combining different perspectives, they expand our understanding of the roles played by legal translators and interpreters, who emerge as linguistic and intercultural mediators dealing with a rich variety of legal texts; as knowledge communicators and as builders of specialised knowledge; as social agents performing a socially-situated activity; as decision-makers and agents subject to and redefining power relations, and as political actors shaping legal cultures and negotiating cultural identities, as well as their own professional identity. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Bartosz Broz&775;ek,Bartosz Brożek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108493253

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The Legal Mind by Bartosz Broz&775;ek,Bartosz Brożek Pdf

How do lawyers think? Brożek presents a new perspective on legal thinking as an interplay between intuition, imagination and language.