Objectivity in Law and Legal Reasoning

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84946-441-3
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 587 g

Reihe: European Academy of Legal Theory Series

Legal theorists consider their discipline as an objective endeavour in line with other fields of science. Objectivity in science is generally regarded as a fundamental condition, informing how science should be practised and how truths may be found. Objective scientists venture to uncover empirical truths about the world and ought to eliminate personal biases, prior commitments and emotional involvement. However, legal theorists are inevitably bound up with a given legal culture. Consequently, their scholarly work derives at least in part from this environment and their subtle interaction with it. This book questions critically, in novel ways and from various perspectives, the possibilities of objectivity of legal theory in the twenty-first century. It transpires that legal theory is unavoidably confronted with varying conceptions of law, underlying ideologies, approaches to legal method, argumentation and discourse etc, which limit the possibilities of 'objectivity' in law and in legal reasoning. The authors of this book reveal some of these underlying notions and discuss their consequences for legal theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Husa, Jaakko

Van Hoecke, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Introduction 1. Objectivity in Law and Jurisprudence Mark Van HoeckeII. Objectivity of Legal Theory 2. Can Legal Theory Be Objective? Jaap Hage3. The Impossibility of an Outsider's Perspective Pauline C WestermanIII. Legal Reasoning 4. Objective Legal ReasoningObjectivity Without Objects Matti Ilmari Niemi5. Legal Certainty as an Element of Objectivity in Law Juha Raitio6. Objective Rules of Argumentation Bertjan Wolthuis7. Easy Cases and Objective Interpretation Niko SoininenIV. Human Behaviour and its Objective Foundation 8. Can Inalienable Rights Provide an Objective Foundation for Law and Morality? Maija Aalto-Heinila9. Objectivity and the Law's Assumptions about Human Behaviour Peter CserneV. (Legal) Cultures 10. Kaleidoscopic Cultural Views and Legal TheoryDethroning the Objectivity? Jaakko Husa11. Translators and Legal Comparatists as Objective Mediators between Cultures? Caroline Laske12. Legal Science Challenged by Cultural Paradigms: 'Subjective Objectivity' in Legal Scholarship Mustapha El Karouni

Über Autor(innen)

Husa, Jaakko
Jaakko Husa is Professor of Legal Culture & Legal Linguistics at the University of Lapland.

Van Hoecke, Mark
Mark Van Hoecke is Research Professor of Legal Theory and Comparative Law at the University of Ghent.

Jaakko Husa is Professor of Legal Culture and Legal Linguistics at the University of Lapland.Mark Van Hoecke is Research Professor of Legal Theory and Comparative Law at the University of Ghent.