Judging from Experience

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Jeanne Gaakeer's expertise in legal theory, and her judicial practice in criminal law in a Court of Appeal, are combined to offer a new perspective on law as part of the humanities that will inspire legal professionals, scholars and advanced students of law alike. Judging from Experience develops a humanities-inspired methodology for both the academic interdisciplinary study of law and literature and for legal practice. It proposes that the combination of academic legal theory with judicial practice is central to humanistic jurisprudence and as a training in the conduct of public life. The book addresses judgment and interpretation as a central concern within the field of law, literature and humanities and reflects on interdisciplinary in legal studies against the background of the dispute between the natural sciences and the humanities. Key Features ¿ A view on law and humanities from an author who combines academic legal theory in the field with her judicial practice in criminal law in a Court of Appeal ¿ Philosophical-hermeneutical building blocks, inspired by Aristotle and Paul Ricoeur, for a methodology for the humanistic study of law as praxis ¿ Offers proposals for the development of a legal narratology ¿ Analysis of Gustave Flaubert's Bouvard and Pécuchet, Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities, Gerrit Achterberg's asylum poems, Pat Barker's Regeneration, John M. Coetzee's Disgrace, Ian McEwan's The Children Act, Michel Houellebecq's Atomised and Juli Zeh's The Method Jeanne Gaakeer is Professor of Legal Theory at Erasmus School of Law, Rotterdam, and Senior Justice in the criminal law section at the Court of Appeal in The Hague.