Epistemology and Method in Law

Samuel (law, Kent Law School, UK) questions the European view that the knowledge of law is merely a knowledge of rules. But what does thinking like a lawyer actually involve? Focused mainly on English cases, the text is aimed primarily at those interested in the methods of common lawyers. Samuel analyzes the idea of legal epistemology and its relationship with other areas of legal philosophy and legal theory, the history of legal ideas, and the development of different methods, schemes, systems, concepts, categories, and reasoning used by lawyers to solve legal problems, making comparisons to the epistemological schemes used in the social sciences. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)