Denis J Galligan

Law in Modern Society

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Law in Modern Society encourages legal scholars to consider the law as an expression of social relations, examining the connections and tensions between the positive law of modern society and the spontaneous relations they often try to direct or change.

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This addition to the Clarendon Law Series offers a comprehensive account of, and contribution to, the study of law in modern society. Written by a leading academic in the field, this book examines the underlying idea that the legal system is a highly developed social system which has a distinctive character and structure, and which shapes and influences behavior.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780199269785
• ISBN-10: 0199269785
• Artikelnr.: 22270220

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 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