Frontiers of Legal Theory Posner Richard A.
Frontiers of Legal Theory Posner Richard A. The most exciting development in legal thinking since World War II has been the growth of interdisciplinary legal studies--the application of the social…
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Frontiers of Legal Theory Posner Richard A.
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. Posner has been a leader in this movement, and his new book explores its rapidly expanding frontier. Judge Richard A.
These approaches are seen to interpenetrate and to compose a coherent body of legal theory--a unified framework for understanding such seemingly disparate phenomena as the economics of free speech, the intellectual history of economic analysis of law, the relation between income and liberty, the law The book examines five principal areas or directions of interdisciplinary study: economics, history, psychology, the epistemology of law and the empirical study of law.
Legal Theory