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Autore: | MacLean James. |
Titolo: | Rethinking law as process : creativity, novelty, change / / James MacLean |
Pubblicazione: | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
Disciplina: | 340/.1 |
Soggetto topico: | Law - Philosophy |
Law - Methodology | |
Process philosophy | |
Note generali: | "A GlassHouse book." |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Front Cover; Rethinking Law as Process; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Legal decision-making and legal reasoning; 1. Locating the problem in law: the conjoined twinscase, Re A; 2. Justifying legal decisions in hard cases: different approaches; Part II: Developing an alternative approach: the importance of process; 3. Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy of organism; 4. Lessons from organisation theory; 5. Towards a process reconstrual of 'the middle'; 6. Two ways of thinking; two types of knowledge |
7. Michael Polanyi's 'tacit knowledge'Part III: Exploring formal legal contexts; 8. Legal institutional knowledge; 9. The judge as institutional actor and decision-maker; 10. Legal contexts as practices; 11. Chaos and complexity; 12. Closing the gap: narrative and the law; Part IV: Integrating law and process; 13. Law's institutional becoming: creativity, novelty, change; 14. Law as process; legal decision-making as an actual occasion inconcrescence; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Rethinking Law as Process draws on insights from 'process philosophy' in order to rethink the nature of legal decision making. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Rethinking law as process |
ISBN: | 1-136-69776-4 |
1-280-68419-4 | |
9786613661135 | |
0-203-81312-X | |
1-136-69777-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910790226503321 |
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