Legal Fictions in Theory and Practice

Preface; William Twining.- Introducing Fictions: Examples, Functions, Definitions and Evaluations; Maksymilian Del Mar.- I. Theories of Fiction, Fictions of Theory.- 1. On the Theory of Juridic Fictions. With special consideration of Vaihinger's Philosophy of the As-If; Hans Kelsen, translated by Christoph Kletzer.- 2. Kelsen on Vaihinger; Christoph Kletzer.- 3. Is Law a Fiction?; Geoffrey Samuel.- 4. Fuller on Legal Fictions: A Benthamic Perspective; Michael Quinn.- 5. The Pragmatic Value of Legal Fictions; Douglas Lind.- II. Community, Language and Literature.- 6. Legal Fictions Revisited; Frederick Schauer.- 7. Legal Fictions and the Limits of Legal Language; Karen Petroski.- 8. Legal Fictions and Exclusionary Rules; Simon Stern.- 9. Law's Fiction, Legal Fiction and Copyright Law; Burkhard Schafer and Jane Cornwell.- III. Change and the Common Law.- 10. Legal Fictions before the Age of Reform; Michael Lobban.- 11. Legal Fictions and Legal Change in the Common Law Tradition; Maksymilian Del Mar.- 12. Fictions in Tort; James Lee.- 13. Ejectment: Three Births and a Funeral; Peter Sparkes.- IV. Fictions in Practice: Past, Present and Future.- 14. Fact, Fiction, and Social Reality in Roman Law; Clifford Ando.- 15. Rabbinic Legal Fictions; Leib Moscovitz.- 16. Presumptions and Fictions: A Collingwoodian Approach; Raymundo Gama.- 17. Some Uses of Fictions in Criminal Law; Peter Alldridge.- 18. Fictitious Fraud: Economics and the Presumption of Reliance; Randy D. Gordon.- Index.