juridischwetenschappelijke
Juridisch weten is a term used in Dutch-language scholarship to describe knowledge about the law—the sources, concepts, and reasoning by which legal rules are identified, interpreted, and applied. The phrase is not uniformly defined but is often used to distinguish epistemological questions about law from purely normative or prescriptive concerns. In a broad sense, juridisch weten encompasses legal doctrine, jurisprudence, and the methods by which legal information is produced and validated, including linguistic analysis, textual interpretation, and comparative study.
Its scope includes the primary sources of law (constitutions, statutes, regulations, case law), as well as secondary
Scholars in juridisch weten examine how legal knowledge is obtained, justified, and communicated to practitioners and
See also: jurisprudence, legal theory, epistemology, legal informatics.