Objectivity in law and legal reasoning / edited by Jaakko Husa and Mark Van Hoecke.

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Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Publishing, 2013.

Edition:

1st edition

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82952

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European Academy of Legal Theory series.

Subject:

Law -- Congresses -- Methodology.

Objectivity -- Congresses.

Law -- Congresses -- Philosophy.

Contents:

I. 1. II. 2. 3. III. 4. 5. 6. 7. IV. 8. 9. V. 10. 11. 12. Introduction

Objectivity in law and jurisprudence

Objectivity of legal theory

Can legal theory be objective?

The impossibility of an outsider's perspective

Legal reasoning

Objective legal reasoning - objectivity without objects

Legal certainty as an element of objectivity in law

Objective rules of argumentation

Easy cases and objective interpretation

Human behaviour and its objective foundation

Can inalienable rights provide an objective foundation for law and morality?

Objectivity and the law's assumptions about human behaviour

(Legal) cultures

Kaleidoscopic cultural views and legal theory-dethroning the objectivity

Translators and legal comparatists as objective mediators between cultures?

Legal science challenged by cultural paradigms : subjective objectivity in legal scholarship.

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Table of contents and index are taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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9781849464413

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viii, 268 p. : ill. ; 25 cm