I. Introduction
1. Objectivity in Law and Jurisprudence
Mark Van Hoecke
II. Objectivity of Legal Theory
2. Can Legal Theory Be Objective?
Jaap Hage
3. The Impossibility of an Outsider's Perspective
Pauline C Westerman
III. Legal Reasoning
4. Objective Legal Reasoning—Objectivity Without Objects
Matti Ilmari Niemi
5. Legal Certainty as an Element of Objectivity in Law
Juha Raitio
6. Objective Rules of Argumentation
Bertjan Wolthuis
7. Easy Cases and Objective Interpretation
Niko Soininen
IV. Human Behaviour and its Objective Foundation
8. Can Inalienable Rights Provide an Objective Foundation for Law and Morality?
Maija Aalto-Heinilä
9. Objectivity and the Law's Assumptions about Human Behaviour
Péter Cserne
V. (Legal) Cultures
10. Kaleidoscopic Cultural Views and Legal Theory—Dethroning the Objectivity?
Jaakko Husa
11. Translators and Legal Comparatists as Objective Mediators between Cultures?
Caroline Laske
12. Legal Science Challenged by Cultural Paradigms: 'Subjective Objectivity' in Legal Scholarship
Mustapha El Karouni

The essays in the collection come from a variety of perspectives and seek to highlight that legal theory is unavoidably confronted with varying conceptions of law which limit the possibilities of 'objectivity' in law and in legal reasoning.

Written by experts in the field this book will be interesting reading for legal theorists.

Original works on legal theory.
This series, published under the auspices of the European Academy of Legal Theory, encompasses original works on legal theory, including the winner of the European Award for Legal Theory. This is an award made biennially to the author of the best European doctoral thesis in the area of legal theory and philosophy of law.