New Waves in Philosophy of Law

This book provides a collection of 11 cutting-edge essays by leading young scholars, challenging long-held assumptions and offering new research paradigms in Philosophy of Law, in five parts: 1) methodology/metatheory; 2) reasoning/evaluating; 3) values/the moral life; 4) institutions/the social life; and 5) the global/international dimension.

MAKSYMILIAN DEL MAR is a Researcher, funded by the Swiss National Fund for Scientific Research, based at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His research interests lie in legal and social philosophy. His recent publications include Contemporary Legal Theory (a 3-volume series, co-edited with Michael Giudice, William Twining and Wil Waluchow), and papers in Law & Philosophy, Human Studies, Philosophy of the Social Sciences and Loyola Law Review.

Notes on Contributors
Series Editors' Preface
PART I: METHODOLOGY AND METATHEORY
Rediscovering Fuller and Llewellyn: Law as Custom and Process; S.Soosay
Analytical Jurisprudence and Contingency; M.Giudice
Jurisprudence and Psychology; D.Priel
PART II: REASONING AND EVALUATING
Pre-Reflective Law; J.Crowe
Virtue and Reason in Law; A.Amaya
PART III: VALUES AND THE MORAL LIFE
Making Law Bind: Legal Normativity as a Dynamic Concept; S.Delacroix
Tolerance or Toleration? How to Deal with Religious Conflicts in Europe; L.Zucca
PART IV: INSTITUTIONS AND THE SOCIAL LIFE
The Social Epistemology of Public Institutions; M.Cohen
Two Perspectives on the Requirements of a Practice; S.Sciaraffa
PART V: THE INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL DIMENSION
Legitimacy and Multi-Level Governance; B. van der Vossen
The Relative Authority of Law – A Contribution to 'Pluralist Jurisprudence'; N.Roughan
Index