{"product_id":"frontiers-of-legal-theory-9780674004856","title":"Frontiers of Legal Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe most exciting development in legal thinking since World War II has been the growth of interdisciplinary legal studiesthe application of the social sciences and the humanities to law in the hope of making law less formalistic  more practical  better grounded empirically  bettered tailored to social goals. Judge Richard A. Posner has been a leader in this movement  and his new book explores its rapidly expanding frontier.  The book examines five principal areas or directions of interdisciplinary study: economics  history  psychology  the epistemology of law and the empirical study of law. These approaches are seen to interpenetrate and to compose a coherent body of legal theorya unified framework for understanding such seemingly disparate phenomena as the economics of free speech  the intellectual history of economic analysis of law  the relation between income and liberty  the law of possession  the psychology of legal decisionmaking  the role of emotion in law  and the use of citation analysis to evaluate judges and law professors. The book carries on Posners project of analyzing the law as an institution of social governance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67624258207797,"sku":"ByrdShop_067400485X","price":42.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674004856.jpg?v=1791386901","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/frontiers-of-legal-theory-9780674004856","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}