Rethinking Law as Process
Creativity, Novelty, Change
1st Edition
Published on 23. May 2012
224 pages
978-1-136-69776-0 (ISBN)
Description
Rethinking Law as Process draws on insights from 'process philosophy' in order to rethink the nature of legal decision making.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
0,88 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-69776-0 (9781136697760)
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Person
James MacLean is Lecturer in Law at the University of Southampton, where he teaches legal reasoning and legal theory. He is co-editor of The Universal and the Particular in Legal Reasoning, a collection of essays on the work of the late Professor Sir Neil MacCormick.
Content
Introduction; Part 1 Legal Decision-Making and Legal Reasoning; Chapter 1 Locating the Problem in Law; Chapter 2 Justifying Legal Decisions in Hard Cases; Part 2 Developing an Alternative Approach: The Importance of Process; Chapter 3 Alfred North Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism; Chapter 4 Lessons from Organisation Theory; Chapter 5 Towards a Process Reconstrual of 'the Middle'; Chapter 6 Two Ways of Thinking; Two Types of Knowledge; Chapter 7 Michael Polanyi's 'tacit Knowledge'; Part 3 China's Social Future; Chapter 8 Legal Institutional Knowledge; Chapter 9 The Judge as Institutional Actor and Decision-Maker; Chapter 10 Legal Contexts as Practices; Chapter 11 Chaos and Complexity; Chapter 12 Closing the Gap; Part 4 Integrating Law and Process; Chapter 13 Law's Institutional Becoming; Chapter 14 Law as Process; Legal Decision-Making as an Actual Occasion in Concrescence;
