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Research Handbook on Epistemologies of Law

Author: Luca Siliquini-Cinelli; Joshua Neoh
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781035347995
Published In: December 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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

Imagination: the neglected dimension of legal thinking 8

Bartosz Brożek and Marek Jakubiec

A convergence of legal pluralism and legal realism to expound legal epistemology 22

Neofytos Sakellaridis Mangouras and Charles Ho Wang Mak

Temporalities and the epistemology of historical injustice adjudication 34

Harison Citrawan

Rhetoric and epistemology in the legal context 49

Federico Puppo, Serena Tomasi and Silvia Corradi

Can contract law be good? When the reasonable person goes to market 61

Renata Grossi

The faithful person as the legal person 76

Alex Deagon

PART B LEGAL KNOWLEDGE IN PRACTICE: SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

The other side of legal knowledge: the Lacanian discourse as legal epistemology 92

Dennis Wassouf

The paradox of objectivity: objective legal knowledge in a socio-political context of creation and use 110

Sacha Sydoryk

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