ABSTRACT
In their pathbreaking work, Social Science in Law: Cases and Materials, John Monahan and Laurens Walker argue that the use of the social sciences in the law reects a departure from the “classical belief that the application of logic could determine a single, correct solution for every [legal] case” to the more nuanced “view that the answer to legal problems varies according to the social context” within which they arise (Monahan and Walker 2014, 1). is approach treats “law as a means of establishing social policy” and stresses the importance of identifying and using information about how people, and society, actually function (Monahan and Walker 2014, 1).
