Diverse Narratives of Legal Objectivity: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (DIA-LOGOS)

✍ Scribed by Vito Breda (editor), Lidia Rodak (editor)

• Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 254
• Edition: New
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume presents a collection of essays on objectivity in legal discourse. Has law a distinctive type of objectivity? Is there one specific type of legal objectivity or many, depending on the observatory language utilized? Is objectivity fit for law? The analyses in the various contributions show that the Cartesian paradigm of objectivity is not relevant to the current legal discourse, and new forms of legal objectivity are revealed instead. Each essay, in its distinctive way, analyses the strong commitment of law to objectivity, shedding light on the controversies that surround it.

✦ Table of Contents

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Table of Contents
Introduction ([Vito Breda] [Lidia Rodak])
PART I Philosophical Perspectives
1. What rationality? Whose objectivity? (Michal Pazdziora)
2. Objectivity and arbitrariness of blind rule-following or what it means to follow a (legal) rule blindly (Lucia Berdisova)
3. The causality of omissions and the objectivity of human agency (Pietro Denaro)
PART II Analytical Perspectives
4. Objectivity and Institutional Reflexivity in Law (Maciej Pichlak)
5. “Essentialism of a kind” and “objectivity of a kind” as necessary for law (Lidia Rodak)
6. The objectivity of the legal text in view of the concept of semantic autonomy. Comments on Paul Ricoeur’s theory (Marcin Pieniążek)
7. The imperative of objectivity and neutrality in legal science and its repercussion on judicial activity: an analysis of the ideas of the Latin-American jurist Luis Alberto Warat (Jaqueline Sena)
PART III Historical Perspectives
8. The Purloined Letter: Law, History and the Theory of Totalitarianism (Cosmin Cercel)
9. Postmodern Evolution of Places of Justice: The Use and Abuse of Transparency (David Marrani)
PART IV Empirical Perspectives
10. The Concept of Objectivity in the UK Supreme Court through a Comparative Looking Glass (Vito Breda)
11. Paternalism and ‘Objective’ Best Interests (Antal Szerletics)
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