Frontiers of Legal Theory / / Richard A. Posner.
The most exciting development in legal thinking since World War II has been the growth of interdisciplinary legal studies—the application of the social sciences and the humanities to law in the hope of making law less formalistic, more practical, better grounded empirically, bettered tailored to soc...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2004] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- I Economics
- 1 The Law and Economics Movement: From Bentham to Becker
- 2 The Speech Market
- 3 Normative Law and Economics: From Utilitarianism to Pragmatism
- II History
- 4 Law’s Dependence on the Past
- 5 Historicism in Legal Scholarship: Ackerman and Kahn
- 6 Savigny, Holmes, and the Law and Economics of Possession
- III Psychology
- 7 Emotion in Law
- 8 Behavioral Law and Economics
- 9 Social Norms, with a Note on Religion
- IV Epistemology
- 10 Testimony
- 11 The Principles of Evidence and the Critique of Adversarial Procedure
- 12 The Rules of Evidence
- V Empiricism
- 13 Counting, Especially Citations
- Acknowledgments
- Index