Behavioral Jurisprudence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4086039 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Glendon Schubert (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1968 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 407-428 |
| Publication date | 1968-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Society Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3052896 |
| OpenAlex | W4239470143 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
For over two thousand years, the science of law has been a dull esoteric subject, with traditional logic its long suit and the syllogism its ace in the hole. The erudite tended to empathize with Socrates, who could define justice only in metaphysical terms, and to scorn the occasional iconoclasts in the Thrasymachian tradition, who would have operationalized the concept of justice on the basis of political interrelationships of power and influence. Throughout these two millennia, jurisprudence was a "science" only in the sense of "moral science," that is to say, it was a branch of philosophy. It was concerned with prescriptive norms rather than with descriptions of human action, and therefore it dealt almost exclusively with ideals for, rather than with the realities of, the behavior of judges, lawyers, jurors, and litigants
Criminology · Jurisprudence · Political science · Sociology · Behavioral and Psychological Studies · Law · Legal Issues in Education · Legal Systems and Judicial Processes · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1969 - 1998 (30) |
| Highly cited | No |