Realistic socio-legal theory : pragmatism and a social theory of law /
This book attempts to identify and develop foundations for the social scientific study of law in the age of anti-foundationalism. Drawing upon philosophical pragmatism, it establishes an epistemological foundation which specifies the nature of social science and its knowledge claims, and a methodolo...
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1997.
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| Series: | Oxford socio-legal studies.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: the Problematic State of Socio-legal Studies
- 2. Pragmatism and Realistic Socio-legal Studies
- 3. Behaviourism and Interpretivism in Complement
- 4. An Analytical Map of the Concept of Law
- 5. A Social Theory of Law by Comparison to Legal Positivism
- 6. The Internal/External Distinction and the Notion of a 'Practice'
- 7. Studies of Judicial Decision-Making
- 8. Legal Theory and the Practice of Judging
- Three Last Words.