Legal fictions in theory and practice - Del Mar, Maksymilian; Twining, William (New York Springer, 2014)
Introducing fictions : examples, functions, definitions and evaluations / Maksymilian Del Mar -- Part I. Theories of fiction, fictions of theory -- On the theory of juridic fictions : with special consideration of Vaihinger's Philosophy of the as-if / Hans Kelsen -- Kelsen on Vaihinger / Christoph Kletzer -- Is law a fiction? / Geoffrey Samuel -- Fuller on legal fictions : a Benthamic perspective / Michael Quinn -- The pragmatic value of legal fictions / Douglas Lind -- Part II. Community, language and literature -- Legal fictions revisited / Frederick Schauer -- Legal fictions and the limits of legal language / Karen Petroski -- Legal fictions and exclusionary rules / Simon Stern -- Law's fictions, legal fictions and copyright law / Burkhard Schafer, Jane Cornwell -- Part III. Change and the common law -- Legal fictions before the age of reform / Michael Lobban -- Legal fictions and legal change in the common law tradition / Maksymilian Del Mar -- Fictions in tort / James Lee -- Ejectment : three births and a funeral / Peter Sparkes -- Part IV. Fictions in practice : past, present and future -- Fact, fiction and social reality in Roman law / Clifford Ando -- Rabbinic legal fictions / Lieb Moscovitz -- Presumptions and fictions : a Collingwoodian approach / Raymundo Gama -- Some uses of legal fictions in criminal law / Peter Alldridge -- Fictitious fraud : economics and the presumption of reliance / Randy D. Gordon
Keywords: Fictions (Law); Jurisprudence