Rethinking law as process : creativity, novelty, change / / James MacLean

• Autore: MacLean James.
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II