Full Description
This thought-provoking book develops and elaborates on the artifact theory of law, covering a wide range of related theoretical and practical topics. Offering a range of perspectives that flesh out the artifact theory of law, it also introduces criticisms of previous formulations of the theory and inquires into its potential payoffs.
Featuring international contributions from both noted and up-and-coming scholars in law and philosophy, the book is divided into two parts. The first part further explores and evaluates the concept of law as an artifact and analyses the background and theoretical basis of the theory. The second part comprises three sections on legal ontology, semantics and legal normativity, specifically in relation to law's artifactual nature.
Providing cutting-edge insights at the intersection of law and philosophy, this book will appeal to scholars and students in philosophy of law, empirical legal studies, social ontology and the philosophy of society.
Contents
Contents:
Introduction to The Artifactual Nature Of Law viii
1 Legal systems as abstract artifacts 1
Luka Burazin
2 Intentions in artifactual understandings of law 16
Kenneth M. Ehrenberg
3 Defects and failures in legal artifacts 37
Jonathan Crowe
4 In search of the functions of the legal system: classificatory
and analytical stages 47
Mario Krešić
5 The ethical dimension of institutional beliefs 66
Adam Dyrda
6 Both directions at once? A Thomistic response to the
artifactual theory of law 89
Petar Popović
7 External recognition and what grounds legal facts 111
Zuzanna Krzykalska
8 Law and its artifacts 128
Miguel Garcia-Godinez
9 Legal officials and artifact theory of law 147
Paweł Banaś
10 On the reference of artifactual kind terms in legal discourse 162
Lucila Fernández Alle
11 The law of fiction or the fiction of law? A study of what
abstract artifact theory can reveal about mixed inferences 179
Izabela Skoczeń
12 Facts, artifacts, and law-given reasons 199
Noam Gur
Index
