Research Handbook on Epistemologies of Law

Name: Research Handbook on Epistemologies of Law
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781035347995
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Author: Luca Siliquini-Cinelli; Joshua Neoh
ISBN: 9781035347995

Edited by Luca Siliquini-Cinelli · Joshua Neoh

Edward Elgar Publishing December 2025

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ISBN-13: 9781035347995
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: December 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This Research Handbook explores recent developments in legal education and practice. It covers the increasing reliance on technology to teach law and perform legal tasks, including a surge in the use of artificial intelligence (AI), alongside changing definitions of what it means to attain, retain, and use legal knowledge.

Filling an important gap in the literature on the topic, expert authors shed light on the uncertain future which awaits law schools and the legal profession, and reconsider the nature, operational dynamics, and remit of the type of knowledge required in the field. Featuring original contributions on key topics, the Handbook provides insights into research methods in law and legal knowledge in theory and practice through philosophical and sociological perspectives. Chapters present theoretical, practical, sociological, comparative, critical, and law and technology approaches and examine analytic jurisprudence to address law reform and legal knowledge of the future.

The Research Handbook on Epistemologies of Law is an essential resource for scholars and students of legal philosophy and legal theory. Additionally, practitioners in legal education will also be interested in its study of the ways in which legal knowledge is produced and transmitted in the age of AI.

Foreword – legal epistemology: what is its basis and scope? x; Geoffrey Samuel; Research handbook on epistemologies of law: introduction 1; Luca Siliquini-Cinelli and Joshua Neoh; PART A LEGAL KNOWLEDGE IN THEORY: PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES; 1.
Imagination: the neglected dimension of legal thinking 8: Bartosz Brożek and Marek Jakubiec; 2.
A convergence of legal pluralism and legal realism to expound legal epistemology 22: Neofytos Sakellaridis Mangouras and Charles Ho Wang Mak; 3.
Temporalities and the epistemology of historical injustice adjudication 34: Harison Citrawan; 4.
Rhetoric and epistemology in the legal context 49: Federico Puppo, Serena Tomasi and Silvia Corradi; 5.
Can contract law be good? When the reasonable person goes to market 61: Renata Grossi; 6.
The faithful person as the legal person 76: Alex Deagon; PART B LEGAL KNOWLEDGE IN PRACTICE: SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES; 7.
The other side of legal knowledge: the Lacanian discourse as legal epistemology 92: Dennis Wassouf; 8.
The paradox of objectivity: objective legal knowledge in a socio-political context of creation and use 110: Sacha Sydoryk; 9.
Epistemology of equilibrium 118: Tomáš Havlíček; 10.
Theories and practices of knowledge and the universal particular in epistemology 131: Antonios E Platsas; 11.
The burden of knowing, the joy of ignorance 143: Robert Herian; PART C CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS OF LEGAL KNOWLEDGE: ANALYTIC JURISPRUDENCE; 12.
Intuition as a source of legal knowledge 160: Jonathan Crowe; 13.
Legal epistemology from a natural perspective: the role of practical reasoning in thinking like a lawyer 172: Constance Youngwon Lee; 14.
Is it possible to have legal knowledge without legal inference? 187: David Tan; 15.
Dworkin’s right answer thesis 201: Liam Sandison and Joshua Neoh; PART D LEGAL KNOWLEDGE ACROSS BORDERS: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES; 16.
Disrupting boundaries in legal epistemology: updating modern legal systems with the rights of nature in a comparative perspective 214: Thiago Burckhart; 17.
Models as tools of legal cognition 226: Wojciech Graboń; 18.
A logic of discovery and verification for comparative legal science 241: Davide Gianti; 19.
Is the expression ‘theory’ problematic? 258: Geoffrey Samuel; PART E REFORM OF LEGAL KNOWLEDGE: LAW REFORM; 20.
What molluscs tell us about environmental law 277: Maïté Andrade and Loïc Pillard; 21.
The construction of knowledge in financial regulation 288: David Murphy; 22.
Who can tell if an offender is truly remorseful? Judges’ use of psychologists’ and psychiatrists’ evidence of remorse 301: Steven Tudor and Michael Proeve; 23.
Legal epistemologies: what is going on in the classroom? 314: Molly Bellamy; 24.
Engendering the rule of law: tautology or trick? 328: Margaret Thornton; PART F LEGAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE FUTURE: LAW AND TECHNOLOGY; 25.
Learning to think en masse: trading selectivity for comprehensiveness in the age of databases 342: Camille Bordere; 26.
Epistemic trustworthiness of AI: (the necessity of) explainable AI in legal decision-making 355: Andrej Krištofík; 27.
‘Emotional facts’ in virtual environments: epistemological and legal status 368: Mario Ricca; 28.
Legal epistemology and artificial intelligence: can computers (like students) learn and apply law (and will law faculties become intellectually irrelevant)? 388: Geoffrey Samuel; 29.
Why law may very well be computable: the case of the reasonable person 402: Luca Siliquini-Cinelli; Index 420