Introduction 1
PART Ⅰ Legal decision-making and legal reasoning 7
1. Locating the problem in law: the conjoined twins case, Re A 9
2. Justifying legal decisions in hard cases: different approaches 16
PART Ⅱ Developing an alternative approach: the importance of process 47
3. Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy of organism 49
4. Lessons from organisation theory 64
5. Towards a process reconstrual of 'the middle' 77
6. Two ways of thinking; two types of knowledge 89
7. Michael Polanyi's 'tacit knowledge' 100
PART Ⅲ Exploring formal legal contexts 111
8. Legal institutional knowledge 113
9. The judge as institutional actor and decision-maker 127
10. Legal contexts as practices 139
11. Chaos and complexity 144
12. Closing the gap: narrative and the law 154
PART Ⅳ Integrating law and process 171
13. Law's institutional becoming: creativity, novelty, change 173
14. Law as process; legal decision-making as an actual occasion in concrescence 189
Conclusion 197
Bibliography 199
Index 205