Research Handbook on Legal Evolution

Edited by Wojciech Załuski, Professor of Legal Philosophy, Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde, Professor of Economics, Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas, France; and Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, Israel and Adam Dyrda, Professor of Legal Philosophy, Faculty of Law and Administration and Jagiellonian Centre for Law, Language and Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

‘A widely comprehensive compass for anybody aiming to pursue the research program of Legal Evolution. A mandatory starting point for any scholar interested in exploring and contributing to this fascinating branch of the empirical science of law.’

• Contents:Introduction 1Wojciech Załuski, Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde and Adam DyrdaPART I NATURALISM, EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND THE LAW1 Can law be naturalized? Legal normativity, moral standards, andpolitical obligation 8Robert Audi2 On the use and misuse of (biological) evolutionary theory in the analysis of law 20Wojciech Załuski3 Law from an evolutionary perspective 36Jaap Hage4 Evolution by replication of deontic units 53Pauline Westerman5 Darwin’s and Darwinian theories of institutions 69Adam DyrdaPART II LAW IN EVOLUTION: MECHANISM AND PATTERNS OFLEGAL CHANGESECTION II.A GENERAL ISSUES6 The fairness model of legal institutions 85James M. Donovan7 Law, theology, and development 101John J. Coughlin8 On the progress in law from the evolutionary perspective 114Wojciech Załuski9 On an ‘evolutionary’ theory of legal systems 129Julieta A. RabanosSECTION II.B BRANCHES10 Evolution of Roman law 149Franciszek Longchamps de BŽrier11 Grasping international law: An evolutionary paradigm? 168Miodrag Jovanović12 Evolution of contracting 188Szymon Osmola13 The evolution of legal marriage: Drawing possible futures of the institution 202Wojciech Ciszewski14 Evolution of animal law 216Tomasz Pietrzykowski15 Nature in the law: An evolution from environmental law to legal ecocentrism 230Sacha Bourgeois-GirondeSECTION II.C PRINCIPLES16 Evolution of political freedom 246Katarzyna Eliasz17 The separation of powers: Old, new, and newest 261Mauro Barberis and Alessio Sardo18 The co-evolution of emotions and constitutions 274Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde and Wojciech Załuski19 Punishment and social standing in an evolutionary perspective 290Michał Kłusek20 The evolution of testimony 305Giovanni TuzetPART III LEGAL THEORY IN EVOLUTIONARY FOCUS21 Norm individuation: A passage in time 322David Duarte22 Evolutionary and static interpretation 339Bojan Spaić23 The growth of legal meaning: The pragmatist perspective 358Adam Dyrda24 Evolutionary theory and legal adjudication: Substrata for a predictivetheory of legal science 373Pedro Moniz Lopes and Raquel FrancoPART IV EVOLUTION OF LEGAL-PHILOSOPHICAL DOCTRINES25 The evolution of natural law 394Jonathan Crowe26 Evolution of legal positivism: Reflections on continuity anddiscontinuity in the positivist tradition 402Patricia Mindus27 The evolution of Scandinavian legal realism 415Torben Spaak28 A ‘Bettabilitarian’ jurisprudence: Pragmatic evolutionism in thejurisprudence of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. 431Luca Malagoli29 Evolution of law and economics 444Péter Cserne30 Ethics of care: Its evolution and significance for law 458Alessandro Serpe