The Reasonable Person
a legal biography
$125.27
- Paperback
216 pages
- Release Date
16 October 2025
Summary
The Empathetic Standard: Understanding the Reasonable Person
Jeutner argues that the reasonable person is, at heart, an empathetic perspective-taking device, by tracing the standard of the reasonable person across time, legal fields and countries.
Beginning with a review of imaginary legal figures in the legal systems of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, the book explains why the common law’s reasonable person emerged amidst the British industrialisation under the influence o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781009445641 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1009445642 |
| Series: | Law in Context |
| Author: | Valentin Jeutner |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 16 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
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Critics Review
‘A fascinating read’ Dominic Regan, New Law Journal‘This book is an amazing work of scholarship, very readable and above all very positive about the way the law aims to be do justice, be fair, and adapt to society.’ David Pickup, The Law Society Gazette‘This legal biography of a concept is not intended to settle matters, but it is bound to be of interest to many scholars and practitioners in fostering, at the very least, thought and discussion of a complex phenomenon.’ Robert Shiels, Scottish Legal News
About The Author
Valentin Jeutner
Valentin Jeutner is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Lund University and Senior Retained Lecturer, Pembroke College, Oxford. Jeutner encountered the reasonable person when studying law in England (Oxford/Cambridge) and the US (Georgetown). He is also admitted to the bar of New York State. Previous publications include Irresolvable Norm Conflicts in International Law (2017) and [l]ex machina (2020).
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