Title: Some potentialities of experimental jurisprudence as a new branch of social science.
Authors: Beutel, Frederick Keating, 1897-
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Year: 1957
Subjects: Sociological jurisprudence.
Contents: I. The theory and some of its present applications -- Can the scientific method be used in jurisprudence? -- The nature of experimental jurisprudence -- Value and interests in the legal system -- Purposes of law and government : relationship of experimental jurisprudence to government, lawmaking and policy decisions -- The lag between scientific discoveries and legal procedures -- Experimental jurisprudence in action -- Experimental jurisprudence in the federal government -- The development of scientific jural methods and research institutions -- II. Illustrations of experimental methods as applied to new legal problems -- A brief description of the experimental pilot studies -- Analysis and methods of the bad-check study -- Results of a study of the bad-check problem -- Suggested hypotheses, jural laws, and future applications of experimental jurisprudence -- Summary of results and possible amendments to the Nebraska Bad-Check Law.