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1 online resource (216 pages) |
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Front Cover; Rethinking Law as Process; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Legal decision-making and legal reasoning; 1. Locating the problem in law: the conjoined twinscase, Re A; 2. Justifying legal decisions in hard cases: different approaches; Part II: Developing an alternative approach: the importance of process; 3. Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy of organism; 4. Lessons from organisation theory; 5. Towards a process reconstrual of 'the middle'; 6. Two ways of thinking; two types of knowledge |
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7. Michael Polanyi's 'tacit knowledge'Part III: Exploring formal legal contexts; 8. Legal institutional knowledge; 9. The judge as institutional actor and decision-maker; 10. Legal contexts as practices; 11. Chaos and complexity; 12. Closing the gap: narrative and the law; Part IV: Integrating law and process; 13. Law's institutional becoming: creativity, novelty, change; 14. Law as process; legal decision-making as an actual occasion inconcrescence; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Rethinking Law as Process draws on insights from 'process philosophy' in order to rethink the nature of legal decision making |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Law -- Philosophy.
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Law -- Methodology.
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Process philosophy.
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process philosophy.
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Law -- Methodology
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Law -- Philosophy
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Process philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203813126 |
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020381312X |
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