INTRODUCTION 1
CHAPTER 1 THE ART OF HANDLING CASES 4
1.Education 4
2.Legal Practice 5
3.Legislation 6
4.Judge-Made Law 8
5.Doing Justice in Concrete Cases 10
CHAPTER 2 LOOKING BACK 12
1.Regarding the Facts 12
2.Regarding Law 14
3.Tension between Past and Present 15
4.Jumping with Feet of Clay 16
5.The Dragon out of its Cave 20
CHAPTER 3 VEILED ARGUMENT 23
1.Embedded Arguments 23
2.The Unruly Four-Year-Old Gelding 26
3.I Keep Six Honest Serving-Men 31
4.Failing to Mention Underlying Considerations and Choices 32
5.Five Reasons 32
CHAPTER 4 THE ABSENCE OF A SOLID FACTUAL BASIS 36
1.Yorkshire Ripper： Immunity 36
2.Hampshire 39
3.Wahrheit oder Dichtung？ 40
4.No Solid Factual Basis 41
5.A Need for Hard Facts is Undeniable 43
6.A Tentative Trend Shift？ 46
CHAPTER 5 DETACHEDNESS 48
1.Notary Quintus 48
2.The Lawyers’ Language 49
3.Magisterialness 51
4.Emotions and Feelings 54
5.Judicial Style 57
6.Give More Room to Sense and Sensibility in Law 61
CHAPTER 6 NOTHING IS PERMANENT IN LAW EXCEPT CHANGE 64
1.Trapped in a Framework of Legislation and Adjudication 64
2.The Exclusiveness of the Framework 65
3.Shortcomings 67
4.A More Active Adjudication as the Solution？ 68
5.Towards a Privatisation of Private Law 70
Trade in Options and Duties of Care 71
Hospital Protocol 73
Disciplinary Standards 74
6."Old" and New Forms of Private Regulation 74
7.The Mutability of Civil Law 78
CHAPTER 7 THE SURROUNDING CIRCUMSTANCES 82
1.What is to be Expected 82
2.Meaning is Context-Bound， but Context is Boundless 83
3.Three Levels of Contextualism 85
First level 86
Second level 88
Third level 91
4.Scholarship at Work 93
5.The Relation Between Scholarship and Practice Stands at a New Crossroads 96
CHAPTER 8 TUNNEL VISION AND MULTIDISCIPLINARITY 99
1.Looking For Options 99
2.Moving Away from Adjudication 102
3.Preconceptions and Starting Points for Mediation 105
4.Paradox 111
CHAPTER 9 A NEW TASK FOR LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP？ 115
1.Practical Legal Science and Scientific Legal Practice 115
2.The Judge as a Model 119
3.Moving Towards Legal Scholarship with Less Focus on Practice 122
4.Methodical Discipline 125
5.Some Consequences for the Organisation of Research 127
BIBLIOGRAPHY 129
TABLE OF CASES 145
INDEX 149