Judging from Experience: Law, Praxis, Humanities (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781474442480)

Combining her expertise in legal theory and judicial practice in a continental European civil-law system, Jeanne Gaakeer explores the intertwinement of legal theory and practice to develop a humanities-inspired methodology for both the academic interdisciplinary study of law and literature and for legal practice. This volume addresses judgment and interpretation as a central concern within the field of law, literature and humanities. It is not only a study of law as praxis that combines academic legal theory with judicial practice, but proposes both as central to humanistic jurisprudence and as a training in the conduct of public life. Drawing extensively on philosophical and legal scholarship and through analysis of literary works from Gustave Flaubert, Robert Musil, Gerrit Achterberg, Ian McEwan, Michel Houellebecq and Juli Zeh, Jeanna Gaakeer proposes a perspective on law as part of the humanities that will inspire legal professionals, scholars and advanced students of law alike.

Author: Jeanne Gaakeer
ISBN-10: 147444248X
ISBN-13: 9781474442480
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/22/2019
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.70d