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Rethinking Historical Jurisprudence

By Geoffrey Samuel
Edward Elgar Publishing October 2022

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ISBN-13
9781802200737
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication
October 2022
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This stimulating book considers the ways in which historical jurisprudence deserves to be rethought, arguing that there is much more to the history of legal thought than the ideas, and ideology, of the nineteenth and early twentieth century jurists, such as Karl von Savigny and Sir Henry Maine.

In doing so, Geoffrey Samuel looks at the history of legal thought, method and reasoning from the position of three questions that will help readers to reflect on the nature of legal knowledge. First, what has legal knowledge been in the past? Secondly, taking a cue from the work of Thomas Kuhn, have there been scientific revolutions in the history of law? Thirdly, do jurists today know more about law as a body of knowledge than jurists of the past? In other words, does the history of law reveal a body of cumulative knowledge? This nuanced book shows how, in re-examining legal knowledge from a diachronic perspective, historical jurisprudence can be rethought as a domain concerned with contemporary legal epistemology.

Ambitious in its scope, Rethinking Historical Jurisprudence will be a key resource for students and scholars in the fields of legal philosophy, legal theory and history and research methods in law.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction to historical jurisprudence
1. Paradigms and revolutions
2. Schemes and paradigm orientations
3. Roman legal methods and reasoning
4. Roman legal methods and reasoning
5. Post-Roman methods and methodologies
6. Contemporary methods and methodological issues
7. Terminology and the foundations of legal theory
8. Taxonomy and theory building
9. Private law theory and the resurgence of formalism
10. Have there been scientific revolutions in law?
11. Is legal knowledge cumulative (or has there been progress in law)?
12. Is legal knowledge cumulative (or has there been progress in law)?
Conclusion

Bibliography
Index
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