Objectivity in Law and Legal Reasoning

Informationen zum Autor Jaakko Husa is Professor of Law and Globalisation at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Mark Van Hoecke is Professor of Comparative Law at Queen Mary University of London, UK. Klappentext This book questions critically! in novel ways and from various perspectives! the possibilities of objectivity of legal theory in the 21st century. Zusammenfassung This book questions critically, in novel ways and from various perspectives, the possibilities of objectivity of legal theory in the 21st century. 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 Reasoning—Objectivity 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-Heinilä9. Objectivity and the Law's Assumptions about Human Behaviour Péter CserneV. (Legal) Cultures 10. Kaleidoscopic Cultural Views and Legal Theory—Dethroning 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

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• Authors: Jaakko Husa, Jaakko Hoecke Husa, Jaakko Van Hoecke Husa, Mark Van Hoecke
• Assisted by: Mark Van Hoecke (Editor), Jaakko Husa (Editor), Husa Jaakko (Editor), François Ost (Editor), Mark Van Hoecke (Editor), Van Hoecke Mark (Editor)
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.01.2013
• EAN: 9781849464413
• ISBN: 978-1-84946-441-3
• No. of pages: 278
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 15 mm
• Series: European Academy of Legal Theo; European Academy of Legal Theo; European Academy of Legal Theory Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; LAW / General, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law