The work Objectivity in Law and Legal Reasoning, authored by Professor Jaakko Husa and Research Professor Mark Van Hoecke, is a critical examination of the realization of objectivity in legal theory.
Husa and Van Hoecke discuss critically, in a novel way, and from multiple perspectives the realization of objectivity in the legal theory of the 2000’s. The authors bring up various factors operating in the background of legal theory.
– Legal theory is subject to a variety of legal conceptions, ideologies, methodological approaches, argumentation, and discourse. Combined and separately, they limit the objectivity of law and legal reasoning, says Professor Husa.
According to him, legal theorists do not differ from other scientists in pursuing to maintain the objectivity of their discipline: this is in fact a general precept through which scientific truths are sought for. Researchers are expected to work objectively without biases, prior commitments, or emotional involvement.
– However, legal theorists are always restrained by the surrounding legal culture. Their scholarly work therefore derives at least partly from this environment and their interaction with it, says Husa.
Jaakko Husa is Professor of Legal Culture and Legal Linguistics at the University of Lapland. Mark Van Hoecke is Research Professor of Legal Theory and Comparative Law at the University of Ghent.
Publication:
Objectivity of Law and Legal Reasoning
Jaakko Husa and Mark Van Hoecke (eds.)
Hart Publishing, Oxford 2013
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