Law and Interdisciplinarity

edited by Phillip Hellwege and Marta Soniewicka

Book cover: Law and Interdisciplinarity

Extent: 540 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Law, Philosophy

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(November 2024)

ISBN: 9783161638817

9.09 x 6.06 inches

Price: $137.00

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Continental European legal scholarship is witnessing a trend towards more interdisciplinary research. But what do legal scholars mean when referring to the concept of interdisciplinarity? The authors of this volume explore this question using a bottom-up approach.


Continental European legal scholarship witnesses a trend towards more interdisciplinary research. This trend raises numerous questions: What do legal scholars mean when referring to the concept of interdisciplinarity? Is it possible to distinguish different types of interdisciplinarity? What are the functions of interdisciplinary arguments in legal debates? Are there common problems which legal scholars face when engaging in interdisciplinary research? Is there an interdependence between a given national legal system and interdisciplinary research? Despite the trend towards more interdisciplinarity in legal scholarship, it seems that these and related questions have hitherto not attracted much attention. The present volume explores these questions using a bottom-up approach, offering reflections by legal scholars on interdisciplinary legal research in their fields of expertise.

  • Edited by Phillip Hellwege
  • Edited by Marta Soniewicka