The Law-Science Chasm: Bridging Law's Disaffection with Science as Evidence (Dissertation Series) by Cedric Charles Gilson

Description

THE LAW-SCIENCE CHASM is a socio-legal study that takes seriously the varying approaches to science that physicians and scientists use, as compared to legal actors such as judges and lawyers. Offering a way to mediate and translate their different perspectives and assumptions, Cedric Gilson uses sociological and philosophical methodologies to explain each discipline to the other.

Part of the new Dissertation Series from Quid Pro Books. Quality digital formatting features linked notes, active Contents (including a detailed outline of issues and a summary TOC), and the complete bibliography from the accompanying print edition. The book also includes an introduction by Professor John Paterson, of the faculty of law at the University of Aberdeen. As Paterson writes in the Foreword:

“Gilson’s book takes seriously the idea of the autopoietic closure of society’s communicative subsystems and works out the consequences in particular for science and law. This analysis both lends support to the credibility of the approach adopted and sheds light on the problems and the direction in which potential solutions might lie…. The book consequently makes an important contribution not only to the literature dealing with the relationship between science and law but also to the literature dealing with the application of autopoietic systems theory to tangible concerns. This book is therefore of clear significance to those continuing to wrestle with the challenges thrown up by science for law and policy even when the spotlight of public attention is directed elsewhere.”

Cedric C. Gilson, PhD, is Visiting Fellow in Law in the School of Law at the University of Westminster, London, UK.