Legal Fictions in Theory and Practice
This multi-disciplinary, multi-jurisdictional collection offers the first ever full-scale analysis of legal fictions. Its focus is on fictions in legal practice, examining and evaluating their roles in a variety of different areas of practice (e.g. in Tort Law, Criminal Law, and Intellectual Propert...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2015.
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| Σειρά: | Law and Philosophy Library,
110 |
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Preface; William Twining
- Introducing Fictions: Examples, Functions, Definitions and Evaluations; Maksymilian Del Mar
- I. Theories of Fiction, Fictions of Theory
- 1. On the Theory of Juridic Fictions. With special consideration of Vaihinger’s Philosophy of the As-If; Hans Kelsen, translated by Christoph Kletzer
- 2. Kelsen on Vaihinger; Christoph Kletzer
- 3. Is Law a Fiction?; Geoffrey Samuel
- 4. Fuller on Legal Fictions: A Benthamic Perspective; Michael Quinn
- 5. The Pragmatic Value of Legal Fictions; Douglas Lind
- II. Community, Language and Literature
- 6. Legal Fictions Revisited; Frederick Schauer
- 7. Legal Fictions and the Limits of Legal Language; Karen Petroski
- 8. Legal Fictions and Exclusionary Rules; Simon Stern
- 9. Law’s Fiction, Legal Fiction and Copyright Law; Burkhard Schafer and Jane Cornwell
- III. Change and the Common Law
- 10. Legal Fictions before the Age of Reform; Michael Lobban
- 11. Legal Fictions and Legal Change in the Common Law Tradition; Maksymilian Del Mar
- 12. Fictions in Tort; James Lee
- 13. Ejectment: Three Births and a Funeral; Peter Sparkes
- IV. Fictions in Practice: Past, Present and Future
- 14. Fact, Fiction, and Social Reality in Roman Law; Clifford Ando
- 15. Rabbinic Legal Fictions; Leib Moscovitz
- 16. Presumptions and Fictions: A Collingwoodian Approach; Raymundo Gama
- 17. Some Uses of Fictions in Criminal Law; Peter Alldridge
- 18. Fictitious Fraud: Economics and the Presumption of Reliance; Randy D. Gordon
- Index.
