Frontiers of Legal TheoryHarvard University Press, 2004 - 464 páginas 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 social goals. Judge Richard A. Posner has been a leader in this movement, and his new book explores its rapidly expanding frontier. |
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
From Bentham to Becker | 31 |
The Speech Market | 62 |
Laws Dependence on the Past | 145 |
Savigny Holmes and the Law | 193 |
Emotion in Law | 225 |
Behavioral Law and Economics | 252 |
Social Norms with a Note on Religion | 288 |
Testimony | 319 |
The Principles of Evidence and | 336 |
The Rules of Evidence | 380 |
Counting Especially Citations | 411 |
Acknowledgments | 443 |