Facts and Norms in Law

Edited by Sanne Taekema, Professor of Legal Theory, Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, Norway, Bart van Klink, Professor of Legal Methodology, Department of Legal Theory and Legal History, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Wouter de Been, Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

'A valuable collection of original analyses of the way various disciplines conceptualise facts, values, and norms in the realms of judging, lawyering, and legislating - and the interdisciplinary challenges and opportunities this offers. In the hands of these authors the normative often plays a crucial role in establishing truths whilst the descriptive turns out to be shaped by values. A must read for legal and social theorists.'

• Contents:ForewordPART I1. IntroductionWouter de Been, Sanne Taekema and Bart van Klink2. Facts, Values and NormsJaap HagePART II3. Imitation of Life: Resonances Between Law and Fact and Fact and LawGeoffrey Samuel4. The Epistemic Dependence of Judicial Decision-MakersRachel Herdy5. Facts and Norms in the Behavioural Assumptions of LawPéter CsernePART III6. Legal Doctrine is a Non-normative Discipline: An Argument from Abstract Object TheoryAnne Ruth Mackor7. Systems Theory, Critique and Law: To Kill Some Darlings? Lyana Francot8. A Law and Economics Perspective on Normative AnalysisAlessio M. PaccesPART IV9. Exploring the Boundaries of Law: On the Is-Ought Distinction in Jellinek and KelsenBart van Klink and Oliver W. Lembcke10. The Natural and the Normative: The Distinction, not the Dichotomy, between Facts and Values in a Broader ContextMaksymilian Del Mar11. How Should Lawyers Use Sociological Ideas? Juristic Practice and Social ScienceRoger CotterrellPART V12. The Need for Audacious Fully Armed Scholars: Concluding ReflectionsWibren van der BurgIndex