Facts and Norms in Law: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Legal Method
Facts
and Norms in Law: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Legal Method
presents an innovative collection of essays on the relationship between
descriptive and normative elements in legal inquiry and legal practice.
What role does empirical data play in law? New insights in philosophy,
the social sciences and the humanities have forced the relationship
between facts and norms on to the agenda, especially for legal scholars
doing interdisciplinary work. This timely volume carefully combines
critical perspectives from a range of different disciplinary traditions
and theoretical positions.