1st Edition
The Demise of the Reasonable Man A Cross-Cultural Study of a Legal Concept
By Michael Saltman
Copyright 1991
177 Pages
by
Routledge
175 Pages
by
Routledge
175 Pages
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Routledge
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Judges in most societies often resort to resolving disputes by means of applying a criterion of reasonableness. In The Demise of the'Reasonable Man' Michael Saltman explores the ways in which reasonableness varies from one legal culture to another, defined by the relative presence or absence of centralized political power. In non-politically centralized societies, Saltman says, judges seek... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Norms as a Function of the Judicial Process: The Ethnographic Data 3. Scandinavian and American Legal Realism: Measures of Reasonableness? 4. Shared Understandings, Reasonableness, and Intentional Societies 5. Reasonableness in a Modern Legal System 6. Conclusion References Index
Biography
Michael Saltman
