Practice Theory and Law: On Practices in Legal and Social Sciences

Author: Maciej Dybowski; Weronika Dzięgielewska; Wojciech Rzepiński
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032550503
Published In: October 2024
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This book engages the field of practice theory in order to consider law as a social practice.

Taking up the theoretical concept of practices, the contributors to this volume maintain that law can be fruitfully understood as one among other social practices. Including perspectives from philosophers of language, experts in practice theory, linguists and legal philosophers, the book examines the twin questions of what it means for law to be considered a practice, and what law’s place is among other social practices. The book is comprised of three parts. The first provides a broad methodological framework for discussing how the concept of practice is used in the social sciences, and in law. The second deals with specific problems arising from the use of the concept of practice in the legal context, and from the intersection of different social practices. The third part identifies and addresses the consequences of applying insights from practice theory to law. Together, they offer a comprehensive consideration of what is at stake in understanding law as a social practice.

This book will appeal to sociolegal scholars, sociologists of law, philosophers of language and action, as well as philosophers of law and legal theorists.

1. Why Practice Theory and Law? Introduction

Maciej Dybowski, Weronika Dzięgielewska, Wojciech Rzepiński

Part I: Making Practices Explicit

2. The Concept of ‘Practice’ and Its Complications

Kjeld Schmidt

3. Rethinking Social Theory with Inspiration from Practice Theory and Pragmatism

Anders Buch

4. Inside Human Practices

Jaroslav Peregrin

5. Science of Law as the Pragmatic Meta-Vocabulary: Explaining Legal Concepts via Practices

Maciej Dybowski

Part II: Law as an Explicit Practice