1st Edition

Practice Theory and Law On Practices in Legal and Social Sciences

424 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

424 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

424 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book engages the field of practice theory in order to consider law as a social practice. Taking up the theoretical concept of practices, the contributors to this volume maintain that law can be fruitfully understood as one among other social practices. Including perspectives from philosophers of language, experts in practice theory, linguists and legal philosophers, the book examines the... Read more

1. Why Practice Theory and Law? Introduction 

Maciej Dybowski, Weronika Dzięgielewska, Wojciech Rzepiński 

Part I: Making Practices Explicit 

2. The Concept of ‘Practice’ and Its Complications 

Kjeld Schmidt 

3. Rethinking Social Theory with Inspiration from Practice Theory and Pragmatism 

Anders Buch 

4. Inside Human Practices 

Jaroslav Peregrin 

5. Science of Law as the Pragmatic Meta-Vocabulary: Explaining Legal Concepts via Practices 

Maciej Dybowski 

Part II: Law as an Explicit Practice 

6. Law’s Authority: Authorizing or Obligating? A Comment on the Planning Theory of Law 

George Pavlakos 

7. Legal Positivism and the Concept of Practice 

Jesus Vega 

8. Conventions, Recognition, and the Practical Point of View 

Sebastián Figueroa Rubio 

9. Human Agency and Law as a Social Practice 

Yarran Hominh 

10. Justifiability of Judicial Decisions, Skeptical Solution and Descriptivist Picture of Legal Discourse 

Michał Wieczorkowski 

Part III: Disentangling Legal Practice 

11. Normative Change in the Legal Practice 

Weronika Dzięgielewska 

12. Intuition and Judicial Morality in Hard Cases 

Tomasz Zygmunt-Gruszka 

13. Normative Folk Psychology and Legal Practice 

Maciej Próchnicki 

14. Situations and Attitudes within Legal Practices 

Wojciech Rzepiński 

15. The Implicit and Fundamental Normative Structure of Legal Practices: Practical Attitudes of Recognition and Practical Attitudes of Acceptance 

Pedro Caballero Elbersci

Biography

Maciej Dybowski is Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.

Weronika Dzięgielewska is PhD Candidate at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.

Wojciech Rzepiński is PhD Candidate at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.