Contextual-configurative jurisprudence : the law, science and policies of human dignity / Winston P. Nagan, F.R.S.A.
2013
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Contextual-configurative jurisprudence : the law, science and policies of human dignity / Winston P. Nagan, F.R.S.A.
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Lake Mary, FL : Vandeplas Publishing, LLC, 2013.
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K3236 .N34 2013
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9781600421778
1600421776
1600421776
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xxii, 635 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)825110097
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Law, science and policies of human dignity
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Purchased from the income of the Cardozo Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
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Table of Contents
The Personal Inspiration and Professional Impact of the Professors' Mentorship
vii
The Structure of This Book
xi
Introduction
1
Two Professors' Dedication to the Achievement of Human Dignity
1
Biographical and Scholastic Backgrounds of McDougal and Lasswell
2
A summary of the distinctive contributions of Lasswell and McDougal to social theory and jurisprudence
11
The Language of Law, Science, and Policy: Choice of Name for The Approach
13
Why `Configurative Jurisprudence' is an Accurate Title
14
ch. 1
The Relevance of Systematic Legal Thought
25
Why Jurisprudence (As a Theory for Inquiry) Matters
25
The Relevance of Understanding the Boundaries of Law
37
The Continuing Relevance of Defining Law
40
The Relevance to Theory of Problem Solving and Decision Making
42
The Relevance of Expanding the Boundaries of Law
44
The Relevance of Scientific Thinking to Jurisprudence
45
The Relevance of Non-State Groups and Individuals to Modern Jurisprudence
48
The Relevance of Jurisprudence as a System of Inquiry
51
For the Legal Practitioner
52
Putting the Pieces Together
54
ch. 2
The Jurisprudence of Human Subjectivity and Intellectual Objectivity
56
Subjectivity: Emotion, Affect, Sentiment and Legal and Social Theory
56
Contending Theories about the Nature of Law
57
Legal Theory and the Revolt Against Formalism
58
The Revolt Against Formalism and the Social Sciences
60
Human Subjectivity and Emotion at the Center of Social, Political Sciences and Law
62
The Political Man: Homo Politicus
64
Human Subjectivity at the Heart of Jurisprudence
68
Human Subjectivity and Justice
70
Accounting for the Subjectivity of the Inquirer
71
Human Subjectivity and the Perspectives of Contextual Configurative Thinking
75
ch. 3
Orientation to Contextual/Configurative Thinking
77
Introduction
77
Outline of the Contextual/Configurative Philosophy of Law
77
Vantage Point
78
Observing Context and Decision
79
Formulating Particular Problems in Decision Context
80
The Key Intellectual Tasks
81
The Emphasis on Inquiry about Law
81
contextual/Configurative Jurisprudence: The Design of an Inquiring System
82
Problems as Value Conflicts: Implicating Choice and Decision
83
Configurative Jurisprudential Research Design
85
Role and Orientation
85
Researching External or Internal Law and Policy
85
Orientation, Focus, and Standpoint for Inquiry
86
Focus Creative Orientation to the Broadest Conception of Law and Policy
87
Specific Research Techniques
87
Relevance of Normative Analysis and Value Conflict
87
Core Scholarly, Scientific, and Intellectual Methods for Designing Inquiry
88
Critical Skills of Configurative Orientation
88
Critical Skills of Organization and Leadership in Application
88
Critical Skills Applying Skill Group Technicality
89
Critical Skills Involving Social Organization
89
Contextual Mapping of the Community Process
91
Contextual Mapping of the Effective Power Process
93
Contextual Mapping of the Constitutive Process
95
Mapping Constitutive Authority at All Levels
100
Specialized Components of Law and Social Process Using Value Institutional Analysis
101
Specific Research Design for Advanced Inquiry About Law
103
Mapping and Contextualizing Distinctive and Specialized Value Institutional Problems and Their Relationship to the Problems of Power, Constituted Authority, and the Public Order
104
Using Phase Analysis to Outline Critical and Specialized Aspects of Context
104
Authoritative and Controlling Decision Making
105
The Process of Claiming in Law
107
Summary Regarding the Orientation to Configurative Jurisprudence and Its Techniques of Contextual Mapping in Jurisprudential Inquiry
108
ch. 4
The Science in Configurative Jurisprudence
110
Policy Science and the Controversy Concerning the Term `Science'
110
The Relationship between Science, Cognition, and Traditional Legal Theory
114
The Interrelationship of Science and Trend-Thinking
121
The Interrelationship Between Science and Scientific Conditions
123
The Interrelationship of Science, Projection, and Future Developments
125
The Interrelationship Between Science and The Consideration of Policy Alternatives
126
Some Issues of Science and Legal Practice
130
Influential Scientific Metaphors within Configurative Jurisprudence
133
The Anthropocene Perspective As a Critical Scientific Metaphor
133
Configurative Jurisprudence, The Anthropocene Insight, and Modern Physics
136
Specific Contributions of Configurative Theory
137
The Evolution of Scientific Knowledge and the Search for a Comprehensive Set of Legal Norms to Guide Decision
139
The Influence of Physical Theory on Configurative Jurisprudence
142
Scientific Decisions and Values
148
Scientific Policy Clarification and Values
150
ch. 5
The Evolution of Configurative Thinking
155
Introduction
155
The Development of American Legal Thought Toward Configurative Thinking
155
Influences of Traditional Pragmatism and Social Thought
155
The Roots of American Pragmatism: A Short Overview
159
Pragmatism: Skepticism and Truth?
159
Human Capacity, Progress, and Pragmatism
160
The Problems of `Truth' and `Validation'
162
Formalism, Experience, and Legal `Truth'
164
Progress and The Human Capacity for Change
165
Inquiry and Pragmatism
166
The Pragmatism of Law and Economics: Limited Contextuality
171
Pragmatism in the Policy Perspective
178
The Dilemma of the `Is' and the `Ought'
180
ch. 6
The Development of Legal Pragmatism and Configurative Jurisprudence
185
Introduction
185
Contributions of McDougal and Lasswell to American Social and Legal Thought and Pragmatism
185
The Evolution of Configurative Thinking in American Social Thought
185
The Evolution of Legal Pragmatism and Configurative Jurisprudence
192
The Legacy of Holmes
192
Holmes' Bad Man and Postmodern Jurisprudence
196
Legal Skills: Predicting the Outcome of Specific Decisions
199
Holmes and the Jurisprudential Centrality of Judicial Decision Making
201
Decision Making as a Deliberate Focus of Modern Jurisprudence
203
The Postmodern Relevance of the Bad Man
206
Subjectivity and Objectivity: A Key Challenge for Configurative Thinking
210
ch. 7
Modern Jurisprudence and Postmodernism
215
Introduction
215
Transition and Paradigm Shift in Modern Social and Legal Thought
215
Post-Realist Legal Thought and The Jurisprudence of McDougal and Lasswell
217
International Law and World Order
221
Configurative Jurisprudence and Postmodernism
234
ch. 8
The Development of Standpoint and Creative Orientation
240
Observing and Inquiring `About Law'
240
The Jurisprudence of Vantage Points
242
H.L.A. Hart on Vantage Points
247
The Early Hart on the Internal and External Aspect of Law
250
Standpoint in Hart's Later Writings
257
ch. 9
The Chaotic World of Social Fact
262
Introduction
262
The Conceptual Basis of Community, Process, and Context
265
The Jurisprudence of Mapping
274
The Interrelations of the Comprehensive Map and the Focus of Inquiry
275
From Focus of Inquiry to Comprehensive Mapping of Formulated Problems
276
ch. 10
The Effective Power Process and Its Relation to the Constitutive Process
280
Introduction
280
Threshold Thoughts on Legal Theory and the Configurative Perspective About Law and Power
281
`Law as Reinforcing Stability Versus `Law as Prescribing Change'
287
The Nature of the Effective Power Process
288
The Constitutive Process: Evolution and Background Influences
297
Animating Ideas Behind The Constitutive Process
298
Constitutive Process: The Anthropological Vantage Point
300
The Illumination of Cultural Anthropology
300
Freudian Characteristics Reflected in the Constitutive Process
305
Effects of a Democratic Personality on the Constitutive Process
306
The Globalization Aspect of Constitutive Process
308
Context, Mapping, and Sovereignty in the World Power and Constitutive Processes
309
Sovereignty and The U.N. Charter
313
Sovereignty and Universalizing International Criminal Jurisdiction
318
Constitutive Process and The Challenge of Interpretation
326
Grounding Constitutive Value Judgments in Specific Application
327
Professor Wechsler's Neutral Principles
328
Professor Bork's Formalistic Originalism
331
Justice Scalia: The Honest Textualist?
337
Searching for Levels of Generality as Guides to Constitutive Application
342
The Nature of the Legal Precept: A Policy Perspective
343
Principles for Grounding Constitutive Prescription in the Common Interest
344
Concluding Comments on the Constitutive Process
347
ch. 11
Procedural Jurisprudence
348
Introduction
348
Observing the `Process' About Civil Procedure
349
The Problem of Adequate Theorizing About Civil Procedure
350
The Conventional Procedural Myth System and the Operational Code
354
State Court Jurisdiction: The Due Process Myth and the Operations of Effective Power
356
Class Justice and Individuals Rights: Class Actions
360
The Perennial Problems of Substance and Procedure
361
Championing Client Autonomy (The Myth) Versus Subverting Client Autonomy (The Operative Code)
364
The Adversarial Aspect of Civil Procedure
365
Jurisprudence, Power, and Rationality
368
Processes for Adequately Conceptualizing the Applicative Aspect of Procedure
370
Principles of Content and Principles of Procedure
377
Principles of Content
377
Principles of Procedure
377
ch. 12
Communications Theory and The `Strategy' of Law
379
The Importance of Communications Theory
379
Law and The Communications Revolution
382
Rules and Principles Versus Policy and Decision Making
388
Legal Precept Clarification and the Authority of Law
390
The Nature and Operations of Legal Precepts `of Law'
400
Law, Communication, and Precepts: The Levels of Abstraction Issue
406
Precedent
408
Rules
408
Principles
409
Standards
409
Legal Policy
410
Legal Values
410
Ideology
410
Morality
411
ch. 13
Configurative Jurisprudence and Contemporary Theories of Justice
413
The Problems of Objectivity in Law and Subjectivity in the Commitment to Justice and Morality
413
The Measurement of Subjectivity: The Q Methodology
421
Contemporary Contributions to the Discourse of Justice and Morality
426
Sen's `Idea of Justice'
426
Sen on the Nature of Human Rights
430
Reflections on Dworkin's `Justice for Hedgehogs'
440
The Global Context of Sen's Idea of Justice and Dworkin's One Big Thing (Hedgehog Theory of Justice)
450
Justice and Global Society: Confronting the Deficits
450
Justice and The International Rule of Law Precept
451
Keynote U.N. Charter Precepts and Values
455
U.N. Charter Values, Justice, and the Rule of Law
456
ch. 14
Morality, Values, and Personal Commitment: The Postulation Problem
461
Postulation and Justification in Configurative Jurisprudence
472
How Weak Is The Arbitrary Human Dignity Postulate?
473
ch. 15
Values Underlying Law, Political Philosophy, and the Public Interest
478
Introduction
478
Religious Myth, Values, and Ideals
482
Major World Religions and Universality of Myth-Influenced Values
485
Dominant Religious Myth Systems, Values, and Ideals
487
Hinduism
487
Buddhism
492
Judaism
496
Confucianism
498
Christianity
500
Islam
503
Religious Values and Secular Values Compared
505
ch. 16
Critical Perspectives
508
The Distinctive Vocabulary of Configurative Jurisprudence
509
Professor Falk: Casting the Spell
510
Dean Kronman and Configurative Jurisprudence
522
Dean Schwartz and the Problem of Excessive Realism
533
Professor Duxbury: View from the Eastern Side of the Atlantic
535
ch. 17
Transitioning from the Foundations of the Configurative Process to the Applications
540
Rethinking the Global Rule of Law
540
Law as outcome of social process
541
Evolution from Coercion to Rule of Law
542
Role of law in social progress
544
Critical participants in the global community
546
The Individual
547
Nation-States
548
Sovereignty and Human Rights
548
Micro-law
550
Lasswell's social process model
551
Good Governance
553
Application of the Model to Law regarding Nuclear Weapons
554
Integrated theory
556
International Law
557
Problems of Sovereignty
559
Statehood
560
Sovereignty and Participation in the International Order
561
Group Personality within the International Community
563
Human Dignity
565
Principle of Equality
566
Globalization
567
Configurative Jurisprudence of Community Development
569
The Vicos Project
570
Implementing the Prototype
577
Configurative Thinking: Innovative Methods of Inquiry About Law and Society
578
Appendix A
Terms of Inquiry
580
A Framework for Contemporary Legal Issues
580
Alphabetical Index of Terms
581
Appendix B
New Paradigm for Global Rule of Law
588
Abstract
588
1.
Law as Outcome of Social Process
589
2.
Evolution From Coercion to Rule of Law
590
3.
Role of Law in Social Progress
592
4.
Critical Participants in the Global Community
594
4.1.
The Individual
595
4.2.
Nation-States
596
4.3.
Sovereignty and Human Rights
596
5.
Micro-Law
598
6.
Lasswell's Social Progress Model
599
7.
Good Governance
601
8.
Application of the Model to Law Regarding Nuclear Weapons
602
9.
Integrated Theory
604
Appendix C
Simulated ICJ Judgment: Revisiting the Lawfulness of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons
606
Abstract
606
1.
Summary of Findings of 1996 Rulings
606
2.
Rationale for Review of the 1996 Judgment
607
3.
Evolution of the Concept of Sovereignty
610
4.
Foundations of the 1996 ICJ Judgment
613
5.
The Unique Nature of Nuclear Weapons
613
6.
The Nuclear Threat to a Viable Eco-System - Nuclear Winter
614
7.
Medical Appraisal of the Nuclear Threat
616
8.
Factual Problem of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Arsenals in the Context of the Foundational Values of the International Legal System
619
9.
The Jus In Bello
621
10.
The Specific Rules of Humanitarian Law at War
624
11.
Law of Self-Defense and Nuclear Weapons
626
12.
Deterrence: Threat of Use
627
13.
Right to Possession of Nuclear Weapons
628
14.
Beyond Objectivism
630
15.
Conclusion
631
Index by Last Name or Topic
632