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Daved Muttart - Empirical Gap in Jurisprudence: A Comprehensive Study of the Supreme Court of Canada - 9780802091598 - V9780802091598
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Empirical Gap in Jurisprudence: A Comprehensive Study of the Supreme Court of Canada

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Description for Empirical Gap in Jurisprudence: A Comprehensive Study of the Supreme Court of Canada Hardback. Filling an important niche in the study of jurisprudence, The Empirical Gap in Jurisprudence demonstrates that systematic studies based on large samples of cases will yield many insights that were obfuscated by prior efforts that relied on small and self-selected samples. Num Pages: 256 pages, 45. BIC Classification: 1KBC; LAB; LAZ; LNAA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 468.

In jurisprudential writing, single decisions are often held up as representative without any evidence to support their representative claims. In order to address this problem, Daved Muttart has made a systematic study encompassing every judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada between 1950 and 2003.

Examining almost 5000 cases, Muttart analyses these Supreme Court decisions employing several important criteria including whether the decisions overruled prior precedent, the extent to which they were decided on fact, law, or policy, and the legal and extra-legal modes of reasoning utilized by the Court. Muttart uses the results of this systematic examination to test ... Read more

Filling an important niche in the study of jurisprudence, The Empirical Gap in Jurisprudence demonstrates that systematic studies based on large samples of cases will yield many insights that were obfuscated by prior efforts that relied on small and self-selected samples.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Condition
New
Series
Heritage
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802091598
SKU
V9780802091598
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Ref
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About Daved Muttart
Daved Muttart obtained his Ph.D. and conducted post-doctoral studies at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.

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