Niklas Luhmann

Law as a Social System

Herausgeber: Kastner, Fatima; Ziegert, Rosamund

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, Niklas Luhmann, the leading exponent of systems theory, explores its implications for our understanding of law. The volume provides a rigorous application to law of a theory that offers profound insights into the relationships between law and other aspects of contemporary society, including politics, the economy, the media, education, and religion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 166mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 898g
• ISBN-13: 9780198262381
• ISBN-10: 0198262388
• Artikelnr.: 22738074

Autorenporträt

Prior to his death in 1998, Niklas Luhammn was Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Bielefeld University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1: The Location of Legal Theory
2: The Operative Closure of the Legal System
3: The Function of Law
4: Coding and Programming
5: Justice: a Formula for Contingency
6: The Evolution of Law
7: The Position of Courts in the Legal System
8: Legal Argumentation
9: Politics and Law
10: Structural Couplings
11: The Self-description of the Legal System
12: Society and its Law
Index