Bublitz on Experimental Jurisprudence and Doctrinal Reasoning

Christoph Bublitz (Universität Hamburg) has posted Experimental Jurisprudence and Doctrinal Reasoning A View from German Criminal Law on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

How may experimental jurisprudence contribute to legal questions or advance legal scholarship? This chapter provides a preliminary perspective from German criminal law with a focus on the specific legal practice of doctrinal reasoning (Rechtsdogmatik), which has not been in the focus of experimental jurisprudence so far. While experiments with laypeople, typical for the U.S. debate, may be less relevant in the German system, experiments with legal scholars and judges could shed novel light on the doctrinal discourse and disagreements.