Strictly speaking, an evolutionary theory of law seems to be a contradiction in terms. It starts
from a distinct entity called 'law'and then tries to trace the development of that entity …

In The Concept of Law, Hart described the mutual dependence between law and humanity:
law can only exist if there are humans, while humans can only exist if law has a particular …

Evolution as a way of thinking about changes observed in the surrounding world has
become quite common since Charles Darwin's theses were accepted. Observations of …

What does it mean to think about institutions in an evolutionary way? What does being a
Darwinian social scientist mean? In this chapter I am concerned with general evolutionary …

In the wake of the legal realists and their successors, there has been a decline in faith in
legal determinism-the view that judicial decisionmaking can be based on principles and …

Degree: SJD DegreeYear: 1991 Institute: University of Toronto (Canada) If the human mind
was designed through Darwinian natural selection to be a highly intrinsically structured …

While the title of John Beckstrom's book may possibly call to mind sanguinary images of"
jurisprudence red in tooth and claw," this compact and generally lucid study of possible …

The entrance of Charles Darwin's1 Origin of Species2 changed the world. This is not
because belief in evolution was a new and exciting theory unconsidered before this time, for …

Evolutionary theories have always been treated by legal scholars as a sort of cousin to the
legal theoretical family, both in Europe and the United States. They are nice theories, they …

The goal of this chapter is to examine various ways of using (biological) evolutionary theory
in legal analysis and to propose their evaluation: I shall divide these ways into the legitimate …