Experimental jurisprudence

Experimental jurisprudence (X-Jur) is an emerging field of legal scholarship that explores the nature of legal phenomena through psychological investigations of legal concepts.[1][2][3][4] The field departs from traditional analytic legal philosophy in its ambition to elucidate common intuitions in a systematic fashion employing the methods of social science. Equally, unlike research in legal psychology, X-Jur emphasises the philosophical implications of its findings, such as whether, how, and in what respects the law's content is a matter of moral perspective. Whereas some legal theorists have welcomed X-Jur's emergence, others have expressed reservations about the contributions it seeks to make.

  1. ^ Tobia, Kevin (2022). "Experimental Jurisprudence". University of Chicago Law Review. 89 (3): 735.
  2. ^ Sommers, Roseanna (2021). "Experimental jurisprudence". Science. 373 (6553): 394–395. doi:10.1126/science.abf0711. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 34437107. S2CID 236179587.
  3. ^ Prochownik, Karolina Magdalena (2021). "The experimental philosophy of law: New ways, old questions, and how not to get lost". Philosophy Compass. 16 (12). doi:10.1111/phc3.12791. ISSN 1747-9991. S2CID 244057904.
  4. ^ Flanagan, Brian. "The Burning Armchair: Can Jurisprudence be Advanced by Experiment?". SSRN 4624493.