Darwinisme als verklaringsmodel in de rechtswetenschap

Darwinisme as explanatory framework in legal science – A review of three recent studies In legal science, Darwinian evolution has been tried out as an explanatory model for decades, but has not become mainstream. Its usefulness and its limits become clear in the studies discussed in this review article. It is shown that Darwinism offers conceptual tools for the explanation on a larger scale, such as witch trials and the devel­opment of pledges and mortgages, as well as on a smaller scale of the unit of selec­tion in the spread of legal forms.