This edited volume brings together scholars in the field of law and the cognitive sciences to analyze and illustrate what the current relationship between law and the cognitive sciences is and what it should be from a theoretical perspective, for example by asking in what way and to what extent insights from the cognitive sciences can and should impact legal concepts, rules and paradigms. The topic of criminal responsibility exemplifies this relationship and several authors analyze specific e...

"There is no gap between Is and Ought, but there is a gap between fact and norm."

"There is a difference between legal powers and legal competences, but there are no power-conferring rules."

"There is no obligation to comply with contracts."

"There are no regulative rules, and all rules are constitutive."

All these claims are controversial in the eyes of many legal theorists. This book argues that they are all true, or justified, if understood in the proper context. The argument starts from t...