The Methods of Legal Dogmatics of Criminal Law From a Realistic Perspective -- Shin Matsuzawa In Defence of a Normative and Non-Scientific Legal Science -- Petter Asp One Method, Two (Mandatory) Perspectives -- Thomas Elholm Criminal Law Scholarship - Should It Be Able to Present Itself as Science? -- Kimmo Nuotio How Can Legal Doctrine be a Scientific Discipline? Methodological Groundworks for the Norwegian Criminal Law Doctrine -- Jørn Jacobsen The method of (German) criminal law dogmatics -- Luís Greco Law and Science -- Eric Hilgendorf Rechtswissenschaft revisited -- Heike Jung Criminal Law Science: from Legal Technicism to Postmodern Legality. An Italian perspective. -- Massimiliano Lanzi Transformation of criminal law science in China: Description and Discussion -- Liang Genlin The Role of Philosophy within the General Theory of Crime -- Michael Pawlik

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"This book discusses whether criminal law theory, or law theory more generally, can be regarded as a branch of science. The issues addressed in this book are following: Is the criminal law scholarship which obviously informs the legal system itself a form of science, and in what sense? Can there be systemic developments in criminal law theory? This question is coming more pressing as interdisciplinary approaches have increased influence in the field. More than that, the question will also have implications for our understanding of legal theory more generally. An innovative, important addition to how criminal law and theory should be viewed."-- Provided by publisher.

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