Law in theory and history : new essays on a neglected dialogue / edited by Maksymilian Del Mar and Michael Lobban.

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Book
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English
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Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2016.
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xiv, 347 pages ; 24 cm

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    "This collection of original essays brings together leading legal historians and theorists to explore the oft-neglected but important relationship between these two disciplines. Legal historians have often been sceptical of theory. The methodology which informs their own work is often said to be an empirical one, of gathering information from the archives and presenting it in a narrative form. The narrative produced by history is often said to be provisional, insofar as further research in the archives might falsify present understandings and demand revisions. On the other side, legal theorists are often dismissive of historical works. History itself seems to many theorists not to offer any jurisprudential insights of use for their projects: at best, history is a repository of data and examples, which may be drawn on by the theorist for her own purposes. The aim of this collection is to invite participants from both sides to ask what lessons legal history can bring to legal theory, and what legal theory can bring to history. What is the theorist to do with the empirical data generated by archival research? What theories should drive the historical enterprise, and what wider lessons can be learned from it? This collection brings together a number of major theorists and legal historians to debate these ideas." --publisher's description.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Legal theory and legal history : prospects for dialogue / Michael Lobban
    • Beyond universality and particularity, necessity, and contingency : on collaboration between legal theory and legal history / Maksymilian del Mar
    • Legal theory and legal history / Fernanda Pirie
    • Legal theory and legal history : which legal theory? / Sionaidh Douglas Scott
    • Historicism and materiality in legal theory / Christopher Tomlins
    • Legal consciousness : a metahistory / Jonathan Gorman
    • Modelling law diachronically : temporal variability in legal theory / Maksymilian del Mar
    • Is comparative law necessary for legal theory? / John Bell
    • Reading juristic theories in and beyond historical context : the case of Lundstedt's Swedish legal realism / Roger Cotterrell
    • Legal realism and natural law / Dan Priel and Charles Barzun
    • The role of rules : legal maxims in early-modern common law principle and practice / Ian Williams
    • Theory in history : positivism, natural law, and conjectural history in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English legal thought / Michael Lobban
    • Legal history and legal theory shaking hands : towards a gentleman's agreement about a definition of the state / Pierre Brunet and Jean-Louis Halperin
    • Law, self-interest, and the Smithian conscience / Joshua Getzler
    • The practical dimension of legal reasoning / Stephen Waddams
    • Corrective Justice ? an idea whose time has gone? / Steve Hedley
    • How history does and does not bear on jurisprudence / Brian Z Tamanaha.
    ISBN
    • 9781849467995 ((hbk.))
    • 1849467994 ((hbk.))
    • 9781509927975 ((paperback))
    • 1509927972 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2016034343
    OCLC
    917338805
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