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Frontiers of Legal Theory / Richard A. Posner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (464 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674276949
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 340/.1
LOC classification:
  • K230
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I Economics -- 1 The Law and Economics Movement: From Bentham to Becker -- 2 The Speech Market -- 3 Normative Law and Economics: From Utilitarianism to Pragmatism -- II History -- 4 Law’s Dependence on the Past -- 5 Historicism in Legal Scholarship: Ackerman and Kahn -- 6 Savigny, Holmes, and the Law and Economics of Possession -- III Psychology -- 7 Emotion in Law -- 8 Behavioral Law and Economics -- 9 Social Norms, with a Note on Religion -- IV Epistemology -- 10 Testimony -- 11 The Principles of Evidence and the Critique of Adversarial Procedure -- 12 The Rules of Evidence -- V Empiricism -- 13 Counting, Especially Citations -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: The most exciting development in legal thinking since World War II has been the growth of interdisciplinary legal studies—the application of the social sciences and the humanities to law in the hope of making law less formalistic, more practical, better grounded empirically, bettered tailored to social goals. Judge Richard A. Posner has been a leader in this movement, and his new book explores its rapidly expanding frontier.The book examines five principal areas or directions of interdisciplinary study: economics, history, psychology, the epistemology of law and the empirical study of law. These approaches are seen to interpenetrate and to compose a coherent body of legal theory—a unified framework for understanding such seemingly disparate phenomena as the economics of free speech, the intellectual history of economic analysis of law, the relation between income and liberty, the law of possession, the psychology of legal decisionmaking, the role of emotion in law, and the use of citation analysis to evaluate judges and law professors. The book carries on Posner’s project of analyzing the law as an institution of social governance.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I Economics -- 1 The Law and Economics Movement: From Bentham to Becker -- 2 The Speech Market -- 3 Normative Law and Economics: From Utilitarianism to Pragmatism -- II History -- 4 Law’s Dependence on the Past -- 5 Historicism in Legal Scholarship: Ackerman and Kahn -- 6 Savigny, Holmes, and the Law and Economics of Possession -- III Psychology -- 7 Emotion in Law -- 8 Behavioral Law and Economics -- 9 Social Norms, with a Note on Religion -- IV Epistemology -- 10 Testimony -- 11 The Principles of Evidence and the Critique of Adversarial Procedure -- 12 The Rules of Evidence -- V Empiricism -- 13 Counting, Especially Citations -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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The most exciting development in legal thinking since World War II has been the growth of interdisciplinary legal studies—the application of the social sciences and the humanities to law in the hope of making law less formalistic, more practical, better grounded empirically, bettered tailored to social goals. Judge Richard A. Posner has been a leader in this movement, and his new book explores its rapidly expanding frontier.The book examines five principal areas or directions of interdisciplinary study: economics, history, psychology, the epistemology of law and the empirical study of law. These approaches are seen to interpenetrate and to compose a coherent body of legal theory—a unified framework for understanding such seemingly disparate phenomena as the economics of free speech, the intellectual history of economic analysis of law, the relation between income and liberty, the law of possession, the psychology of legal decisionmaking, the role of emotion in law, and the use of citation analysis to evaluate judges and law professors. The book carries on Posner’s project of analyzing the law as an institution of social governance.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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