Law's Evolution and Human Understanding

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-973509-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 573 g

When should we follow the law? How can we know what law's words mean? What ^iis^r law? ^b^iLaw's Evolution and Human Understanding^r^r presents fresh and surprising answers to these questions. In an account alive with the stories of our shared human history, Laurence Claus explains why we should discard the old idea that legal rules tell us what to do, and instead see law as a system of sayings that evolves among humans to help us better ^iunderstand each other^r.

When driving on public roads, when buying and selling, and in countless other aspects of our work and play, we depend on law to let us know what other people are likely to do and to expect of us. Through fast-paced pages of anecdote and argument, ^b^iLaw's Evolution and Human Understanding^r^r explains the revolutionary consequences of seeing law as truly what Oliver Wendell Holmes called it: systematized prediction. The book reveals how this vision of law can transform our thinking about the way we make moral decisions, about the way we read law, and about many other ways that law affects our lives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Claus, Laurence

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1. What Makes Words Law?

- 2. How Law Grows Up in a Group

- 3. The Invention of "Because I Said So "

- 4. The Empty Idea of Authority

- 5. Ideas that Endure

- 6. When Should We Do What Law Signals?

- 7. How Law Works

- 8. Evolution and Revolution

- 9. Reading to Understand Each Other

- 10. The Life of the Law

- Notes

- Acknowledgments

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Claus, Laurence
Laurence Claus, Herzog Endowed Scholar and Professor of Law, University of San Diego

Laurence Claus is Professor of Law at the University of San Diego. He has worked for distinguished judges both in his native Australia and in the United States, and spent three years in the Office of Foreign Litigation, United States Department of Justice, based at the American Embassy in London. He holds a doctorate of philosophy in law from the University of Oxford.

Laurence Claus is Professor of Law at the University of San Diego. He has worked for distinguished judges both in his native Australia and in the United States, and spent three years in the Office of Foreign Litigation, United States Department of Justice, based at the American Embassy in London. He holds a doctorate of philosophy in law from the University of Oxford.