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44 German Y.B. Int'l L. 96 (2001)
Policy-Oriented Jurisprudence

handle is hein.journals/gyil44 and id is 97 raw text is: Policy-Oriented Jurisprudence By Siegfried Wiessner* and Andrew R. Willard* Policy-oriented jurisprudence' was developed in order to provide professionals of the law, and, beyond that field, decision-makers of given communities and their advisers as well as scholars, with an intellectual framework that most effectively helps to achieve two main purposes: to understand and to shape what is common- Professor of Law and Director, LL.M./M.A. Program in Intercultural Human Rights, St. Thomas University School of Law, Miami, Florida. Senior Research Scholar, Yale Law School, and President, The Policy Sciences Center, Inc. and The Society for the Policy Sciences. 'Policy-oriented jurisprudence finds its principal statement in Lasswelland McDougats two volume treatise, HaroldD. Lasswell/Myres S. McDougal, Jurisprudence for a Free Society: Studies in Law, Science and Policy, 1992. For earlier versions of the approach, see HaroldD. Lass well, World Politics and Personal Insecurity, 1935 (1965 with a new introduction); and HaroldD. Lasswell/Abraharn Kaplan, Power and Society: A Framework for Political Inquiry, 1950. Other key statements of the approach are to be found in these classic articles: MyresS. McDougal/Harold D. Lasswell, Legal Education and Public Policy: Professional Training in the Public Interest, Yale LawJournal (Yale LJ.), vol. 52,1943,203; Myres S. McDougal, International Law, Power, and Policy: A Contemporary Conception, Recueil des Cours, vol. 82, 1953, 133; HaroldD. Lasswell/Myres S. McDouga, Jurisprudence in Policy-Oriented Perspective, University of Florida Law Review (U.Fla. L.Rev.), vol. 19,1966-1967,486; HaroldD. Lasswell/MyresS. McDouga, Criteria for a Theory About Law, Southern California LawReview (S.Cal. L.Rev.), vol. 44,1971, 362; Myres S, McDougal/HaroldD. Lasswel&. MichaelReisman, Theories About International Law: Prologue to a Configurative Jurisprudence, Virginia Journal of International Law (Vir. J. Int'l L.), vol. 8, 1968, 188. For the location of MyresMcDougals ideas in the firmament of jurisprudence, see William L. Morrison, Myres S. McDougal and Twentieth-Century Jurispru- dence: A Comparative Essay, in: W MichaelReisman/BurnsH. Weston (eds.), Toward World Order and Human Dignity: Essays in Honor of Myres S. McDougal, 1976,3. Prior expose's of the approach in Europe include W. MichaelReisman, Theory About Law: The New Haven School of Jurisprudence, in: WissenschaftskollegJahrbuch, 1989/90,228 etseq.; Christoph Schreu- er, New Haven Approach und V61kerrecht, in: Autoritit und Internationale Ordnung, 1979, 63 et seq.; and Siegfried Wiessner, International Law in the 21st Century: Decisionmaking in Institutionalized and Non-Institutionalized Settings, in: International Justice, Thesaurus Acro- asium, vol. 26, 1997, 129. Alternatively our approach has been designated as 'law, science and policy', 'configurative jurisprudence' and 'New Haven School.' We prefer the term 'policy- oriented jurisprudence' because it focuses attention on the content of our theory about law.

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