Laurence Claus

Law's Evolution and Human Understanding (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Why do people consult the law? Why do we consult lawyers? Law's Evolution and Human Understanding articulates a fresh conception of law that builds on Oliver Wendell Holmes' celebrated insights concerning law's predictive potential. The book considers important implications of this new understanding for how we individually make moral choices, how we read law, and some of the many other ways that law affects our lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199995899
• Artikelnr.: 72270483

Autorenporträt

Laurence Claus is Professor of Law at the University of San Diego. He has worked for distinguished judges both in his native Australia and in the United States, and spent three years in the Office of Foreign Litigation, United States Department of Justice, based at the American Embassy in London. He holds a doctorate of philosophy in law from the University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

1. What Makes Words Law?
2. How Law Grows Up in a Group
3. The Invention of "Because I Said So "
4. The Empty Idea of Authority
5. Ideas that Endure
6. When Should We Do What Law Signals?
7. How Law Works
8. Evolution and Revolution
9. Reading to Understand Each Other
10. The Life of the Law
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index