Abstract
This article considers claims about the 'autonomy of law'. These are that that legal reasoning is different from other forms of reasoning; that legal decision-making is different from other forms of decision-making; that legal reasoning and decision-making are sufficient to themselves, that they neither need help from other approaches nor would they be significantly improved by such help; and that legal scholarship should be about distinctively legal topics (often referred to as 'legal doctrine') and is not or should not be about other topics.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | The Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780191743832 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780199248179 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 18 2012 |
Keywords
- Autonomy of law
- Decision-making
- Legal profession
- Legal reasoning
- Legal scholarship
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