Legal rules in practice : in the midst of law's life /
Legal rules in practice : in the midst of law's life /
edited by Baudouin Dupret, Julie Colemans and Max Travers.
- 1 online resource (xi, 289 pages)
"Understanding legal rules not as determinants of behavior but as points of reference for conduct, this volume considers the ways in which rules are invoked, referred to, interpreted, put forward, or blurred. It also asks how both legal practitioners and lay participants conceive of and participate in the construction of facts and rules, and thus, through decisions, defenses, pleas, files, evidence, interviews and documents, actively participate in law's life. With attention to the formulation of notions such as person, evidence, intention, cause and responsibility in the course of legal practices, Legal Rules in Practice provides the outlines of a praxiological anthropology of law - an anthropology that focuses on words, concepts and reasoning as actively used to solve conflicts with the help of legal rules. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists and scholars of law with interests in ethnomethodology, rule-based conduct and practical reasoning"--
9781000335125 1000335127 9781000335064 1000335062 9781003046776 1003046770 9781000335095 1000335097
Jurisprudence.
Law--Interpretation and construction.
Law--Methodology.
Law--Philosophy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
K237 / .L447 2021
340
"Understanding legal rules not as determinants of behavior but as points of reference for conduct, this volume considers the ways in which rules are invoked, referred to, interpreted, put forward, or blurred. It also asks how both legal practitioners and lay participants conceive of and participate in the construction of facts and rules, and thus, through decisions, defenses, pleas, files, evidence, interviews and documents, actively participate in law's life. With attention to the formulation of notions such as person, evidence, intention, cause and responsibility in the course of legal practices, Legal Rules in Practice provides the outlines of a praxiological anthropology of law - an anthropology that focuses on words, concepts and reasoning as actively used to solve conflicts with the help of legal rules. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists and scholars of law with interests in ethnomethodology, rule-based conduct and practical reasoning"--
9781000335125 1000335127 9781000335064 1000335062 9781003046776 1003046770 9781000335095 1000335097
Jurisprudence.
Law--Interpretation and construction.
Law--Methodology.
Law--Philosophy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
K237 / .L447 2021
340