The prestigious Routledge publishing house has published a monograph titled “Practice Theory and Law: On Practices in Legal and Social Sciences”, edited by Maciej Dybowski, PhD, Weronika Dzięgielewska, MA, and Wojciech Rzepiński, MA, from out Department.
This book engages the field of practice theory in order to consider law as a social practice. It will appeal to philosophers of law and legal theorists, as well as sociolegal scholars, sociologists of law, philosophers of language and action.
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 twin questions of what it means for law to be considered a practice and what law’s place is among other social practices. The book is comprised of three parts. The first provides a broad methodological framework for discussing how the concept of practice is used in the social sciences, and in law. The second deals with specific problems arising from the use of the concept of practice in the legal context, and from the intersection of different social practices. The third part identifies and addresses the consequences of applying insights from practice theory to law. Together, they offer a comprehensive consideration of what is at stake in understanding law as a social practice.
Among the many esteemed researchers from around the world, this book includes chapters by researchers from our Department:
- “Why Practice Theory and Law? Introduction” by Maciej Dybowski, Weronika Dzięgielewska, Wojciech Rzepiński,
- “Science of Law as the Pragmatic Meta-Vocabulary: Explaining Legal Concepts via Practices”, by Maciej Dybowski,
- “Justifiability of Judicial Decisions, Skeptical Solution and Descriptivist Picture of Legal Discourse”, by Michał Wieczorkowski,
- “Normative Change in the Legal Practice”, by Weronika Dzięgielewska,
- “Situations and Attitudes within Legal Practices”, by Wojciech Rzepiński.
More information can be found at the publisher’s website.
