Science of Legal Method. Select Essays by Various Authors

1917. Bruncken, Ernest, [1865-1933], Translator. Register, Layton B., [1882-1961], Translator. Sheldon, Henry N., Introduction. Salmond, John W., Introduction. Science of Legal Method. Select Essays by Various Authors. Translated by Ernest Bruncken and Layton B. Register. With Introductions by Henry N. Sheldon and John W. Salmond. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1917. lxxxvi, 593 pp. Publisher's cloth hardcover with gilt title to spine. Moderate shelfwear with some rubbing to extremities. Inscription of "Edwin W. Patterson/ Columbia University" to front free endpaper. Negligible light toning to interior, a few cracks to text block, all leaves secure. $95. * Edwin W. Patterson was a notable author and professor who greatly influenced insurance policy in New York. The Science of Legal Method. Select Essays by Various Authors is a title in the Modern Legal Philosophy Series. Contents: "Judicial Freedom of Decision, Its Necessity and Method" by Francois Geny, "Judicial Freedom of Decision: Its Principles and Objects" by Eugen Ehrlich, "Dialecticism and Technicality: The Need of Sociological Method" by Johann Georg Gmelin, "Equity and Law: Judicial Freedom of Decision" by Geza Kiss, "The Perils of Emotionalism" by Fritz Berolzheimer, "Judicial Interpretation of Enacted Law" by Josef Kohler, "Courts and Legislation" by Roscoe Pound, "The Operation of the Judicial Function in English Law" by Heinrich B. Gerland, "Codified Law and Case-Law: Their Part in Shaping the Policies of Justice" by Edouard Lambert, "Methods of Juridical Thinking" by Karl Georg Wurzel, "The Problem of the Legislator: Methods for Scientific Codification" by Alexandre Alvarez, "The Legislative Technic of Modern Civil Codes" by Francois Geny and "Scientific Method in Legislative Drafting" by Ernst Freund. (Inventory #: 82149)