Denis Galligan, D J Galligan

Law in Modern Society

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A succinct, clear, and accessible introduction to the role and place of law in modern society, this addition to the 'Clarendon Law Series' explores the idea that the legal system is a highly developed social system, which has a distinct character and structure, and which shapes and influences behaviour.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9780199291830
• ISBN-10: 0199291837
• Artikelnr.: 21790200

Autorenporträt

Denis Galligan is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He teaches law and society, administrative law and legal and social theory.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Setting the bounds of law in modern society
2: Approaches to law in society
3: Law as social rules
4: Law prior to rules
5: Law as a system of rules
6: Social spheres
7: The reception of law
8: Law and coercion
9: Legal pluralism: parallel legal orders
10: Extended legal pluralism: informal legal orders
11: Does law have social functions?
12: The social value of law
13: Forms of modern legal orders
14: Social foundations of the modern legal form
15: Implementation and the architecture of law
16: Implementation: the legal and social environment
17: Change through the law: the contours of compliance