How law knows
By: edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey.
Contributors: Sarat, Austin.; Douglas, Lawrence.; Umphrey, Martha Merrill.
Series: The Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780804755252
Subjects: Law -- Methodology; Jurisprudence; Legal certainty; Law and fact
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Complexity, contingency, and change in law's knowledge practices : an introduction / Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey with Conor Clarke; title: "Fact" and the proof of fact in Anglo-American law (c. 1500-1850) / Barbara J. Shapiro; title: Theoretical and methodological issues in the study of legal knowledge practices / Mariana Valverde; title: Legal realism as psychological and cultural (not political) realism / Donald Braman and Dan M. Kahan; title: How law knows in the American trial court / Robert P. Burns; title: Fact-finding in constitutional cases / David L. Faigman.