ABSTRACT
Adjudication in Action describes the moral dimension of judicial activities and the judicial approach to questions of morality, observing the contextualized deployment of various practices and the activities of diverse people who, in different capacities, find themselves involved with institutional judicial space. Exploring the manner in which the enactment of the law is morally accomplished, and how practical, legal cognition mediates and modulates the treatment of cases dealing with sexual morality, this book offers a rich, praxeological study that engages with 'living' law as it unfolds in action. Inspired by Wittgenstein's later thought and engaging with recent developments in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, Adjudication in Action challenges approaches that reduce the law to mere provisions of a legal code, presenting instead an understanding of law as a resource that stands in need of contextualization. Through the close description of people's orientation to and reification of legal categories within the framework of institutional settings, this book constitutes the first comprehensive study of law in context and in action.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|74 pages
Law and Morality: Bases of a Praxeological Approach
part II|68 pages
Law in Context and in Action
part III|92 pages
A Practical Grammar of Legal Concepts
chapter Chapter 8|22 pages
The Natural Person: The Contingent and Contextual Production of Legal Personality
chapter Chapter 9|22 pages
The Production of Causality: A Praxeological Grammar of the Use of Causal Concepts
chapter Chapter 10|18 pages
Intention in Action: The Teleological Orientation of the Parties to Criminal Cases
part IV|78 pages
Praxeological Study of Judgments on Morality