Science of legal method
Subtitle: select essays by various authors
By: Translations by Ernest Bruncken and Layton B. Register. With introductions by Henry N. Sheldon and by John W. Salmond
Series: Modern legal philosophy series -- IX; Modern legal philosophy series -- IX
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1921
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 593
Subjects: Law -- Philosophy.; Law reform; Law -- Interpretation and construction; Law -- Codification; Bill drafting
Notes: Reprint of the 1917 ed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The problem of the judge: Judicial freedom of decision, its necessity and method, by F. Gény. Judicial freedom of decision, its principles and objects, by E. Ehrlich. Dialecticism and technicality; the need of sociological method, by J. G. Gmelin. Equity and law, by G. Kiss. The perils of emotionalism, by F. Berolzheimer. Judicial interpretation of enacted law, by J. Kohler. Courts and legislation, by R. Pound. The operation of the judicial function in English law, by H. B. Gerland. Codified law and case-law, by É. Lambert. Methods of juridical thinking, by K. G. Wurzel.; title: pt. 2. The problem of the legislator: methods for scientific codification, by A. Alvarez. The legislative technic of modern civil codes, by F. Gény. Scientific method in legislative drafting, by E. Freund.