Epistemology and Method in Law

Geoffrey Samuel questions the widely held assumption that to have knowledge of law is simply to have knowledge of rules. In this volume, he examines what it is to have knowledge of law, embracing not only conceptual foundations and methods used by jurists, but also epistemological schemes employed by social scientists in general, in order to show that such schemes are closely related to those used by lawyers and judges.

List of contents

Contents: The scope of legal epistemology; Scientia Iuris; Methodologies in law; Institutions and concepts; Facts and law; Taxonomy in law; Theories of liability; Schemes of intelligibility in Social Science; Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Geoffrey Samuel

Summary

This work seeks to answer the question: "What does thinking like a lawyer actually involve"? The focus is mainly on English common law, but the text aims to contribute to comparative law, in as much as it is concerned with the "law" question.

Product details

• Authors: Geoffrey Samuel, Samuel Geoffrey
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.02.2003
• EAN: 9781855215993
• ISBN: 978-1-85521-599-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 816 g
• Series: Applied Legal Philosophy
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; England, Wales, LAW / Comparative, LAW / Common, comparative law, Common Law, Systems of law: common law, Legal system: general, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Legal systems: general, Wales / Cymru