Methodology of criminal law theory : art, politics or science? /
Matsuzawa, Shin,1968-editor.
Nuotio, Kimmo,editor.
This book discusses whether criminal law theory, or in more general terms, general law theory can be regarded as a branch of science. The issues addressed in this book are following: Is the criminal law scholarship which obviously informs the legal system itself a form of science, and in what sense? Can there be systemic developments in criminal law theory?The issues concerning the nature of the knowledge of criminal law in the core areas of the field are of course closely linked with issues concerning what legal science is more generally about. A reflective discussion in the field of criminal law on these issues may contribute to the general discussions in legal theory, and also it serves the interest of understanding where criminal law theory stands when legal research is increasingly faced with challenges of interdisciplinarity.
Includes bibliographical references.
The methods of legal dogmatics of criminal law from a realistic perspective / Shin Matsuzawa -- In defence of a normative and non-scientific legal science / Petter Asp -- One method, two (mandatory) perspectives / Thomas Elholm -- Criminal law scholarship - should it be able to present itself as science? / Kimmo Nuotio -- How can legal doctrine be a scientific discipline? Methodological groundworks for the Norwegian criminal law doctrine / Jorn Jacobsen -- The method of (German) criminal law dogmatics / Luis Greco -- Law and science / Eric Hilgendoif -- Rechtswissenschaft revisited / Heike Jung -- Criminal law science: from legal technicism to postmodern legality. An Italian perspective / Massimiliano Lanzi -- Transformation of criminal law science in China: description and discussion / Liang Genlin -- The role of philosophy within the general theory of crime / Michael Pawlik.
This book discusses whether criminal law theory, or in more general terms, general law theory can be regarded as a branch of science. The issues addressed in this book are following: Is the criminal law scholarship which obviously informs the legal system itself a form of science, and in what sense? Can there be systemic developments in criminal law theory?The issues concerning the nature of the knowledge of criminal law in the core areas of the field are of course closely linked with issues concerning what legal science is more generally about. A reflective discussion in the field of criminal law on these issues may contribute to the general discussions in legal theory, and also it serves the interest of understanding where criminal law theory stands when legal research is increasingly faced with challenges of interdisciplinarity.
Criminal law
Legal ethics.