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Objectivity in law and legal reasoning / edited by Jaakko Husa and Mark van Hoecke. - Oxford ; Portland, OR : Hart Pub., 2013. - viii, 268 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - European Academy of Legal Theory monograph series . - European Academy of Legal Theory series. .

"A selection of papers presented in an earlier version at the 6th Benelux-Scandinavian Symposium on Legal Theory, held in Rovaniemi (Lapland) on 8-10 June 2011"--Preface

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Objectivity in law and jurisprudence / Can legal theory be objective? / The impossibility of an outsider's perspective / Objective legal reasoning : objectivity without objects / Legal certainty as an element of objectivity in law / Objective rules of argumentation / Easy cases and objective interpretation / Can inalienable rights provide an objective foundation for law and morality? / Objectivity and the law's assumptions about human behaviour / Kaleidoscopic cultural views and legal theory : dethroning the objectivity? / Translators and legal comparatists as objective mediators between cultures? / Legal science challenged by cultural paradigms : "subjective objectivity" in legal scholarship / Mark Van Hoecke -- Jaap Hage -- Pauline C. Westerman -- Matti Ilmari Niemi -- Juha Raitio -- Bertjan Wolthuis -- Niko Soininen -- Maija Aalto-Heinilä -- Péter Cserne -- Jaakko Husa -- Caroline Laske -- Mustapha El Karouni.

ISBN: 9781849464413 (cloth : alk. paper) 1849464413 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2013371445

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 016177619 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Law--Methodology--Congresses.
Objectivity--Congresses.

LC Class. No.: K212 / .B46 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 340.1