The Library of Essays in Contemporary Legal Theory
Titles in the Series:
The Methodology of Legal Theory
Volume I
Michael Giudice, Wil Waluchow and
Maksymilian Del Mar
Legal Theory and the Social Sciences
Volume II
Maksymilian Del Mar and Michael Giudice
Legal Theory and the Legal Academy
Volume III
Maksymilian Del Mar, William Twining and
Michael Giudice
First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing
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Legal theory and the legal academy. (The library of essays in contemporary legal theory)
1. JurisprudenceStudy and teaching. 2. Comparative law Philosophy.
I. Series II. Del Mar, Maksymilian, 1979 III. Twining, William L. IV. Giudice, Michael.
340.0711dc22
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Contemporary Legal Theory
The last thirty years have witnessed a proliferation of theorising about law, as well as reflection on the very practice of that theorising. As the discipline of legal theory has flourished, so have methodological debates and controversies. These debates are not only relevant to how legal theory understands its own enterprise: its problems and aims, and issues of scope. They are also relevant to many other aspects of the practice of legal theory, and its role vis--vis the practice of law and the practice of other related activities, such as legal scholarship and legal education. Further, as the ambitions of legal theory grow, so do questions concerning its relations with other disciplines, such as comparative law, but also, much more broadly, the social sciences.
This three volume series on Contemporary Legal Theory aims to track and project the relations between legal theory and related disciplines. Accordingly, the first volume is devoted to preparing the way, by assembling recent work on the methodology of legal theory. It examines the problems and aims of legal theory, issues of semantics and epistemology, perspectives on morality in the theory of law and issues of scope.
The second volume follows naturally from where the first volume ends, and takes up issues to do with mapping the intersections between legal theory and the social sciences. It is divided into three parts: first, it looks at methodological disputes and collaboration; second, it considers how both legal theory and the social sciences employ a variety of different modes of explanation of behaviour, and the role that these modes play in the construction of theories about law; and third, it surveys how both legal theory and the social sciences might work together to portray legal phenomena, especially insofar as one sets out to study the language of law in its social context as well as the place of laws within a broader context of normative phenomena.