Facts and Norms in Law: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Legal Method

Foreword

PART I
1. Introduction
Wouter de Been, Sanne Taekema and Bart van Klink
2. Facts, Values and Norms
Jaap Hage

PART II
3. Imitation of Life: Resonances Between Law and Fact and Fact and Law
Geoffrey Samuel
4. The Epistemic Dependence of Judicial Decision-Makers
Rachel Herdy
5. Facts and Norms in the Behavioural Assumptions of Law
Péter Cserne

PART III
6. Legal Doctrine is a Non-normative Discipline: An Argument from Abstract Object Theory
Anne Ruth Mackor
7. Systems Theory, Critique and Law: To Kill Some Darlings?
Lyana Francot
8. A Law and Economics Perspective on Normative Analysis
Alessio M. Pacces

PART IV
9. Exploring the Boundaries of Law: On the Is-Ought Distinction in Jellinek and Kelsen
Bart van Klink and Oliver W. Lembcke
10. The Natural and the Normative: The Distinction, not the Dichotomy, between Facts and Values in a Broader Context
Maksymilian Del Mar
11. How Should Lawyers Use Sociological Ideas? Juristic Practice and Social Science
Roger Cotterrell

PART V
12. The Need for Audacious Fully Armed Scholars: Concluding Reflections
Wibren van der Burg

Index