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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789013703321

Autore

Burg Wibren van der

Titolo

The dynamics of law and morality : a pluralist account of legal interactionism / / Wibren van der Burg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-317-03505-4

1-315-61576-2

1-317-03504-6

1-4724-3041-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

340/.112

Soggetti

Law - Moral and ethical aspects

Law and ethics

Legal polycentricity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I UNDERSTANDING THEORETICAL PLURALISM; 1 Two Basic Models of Law and Morality; 2 Essentially Ambiguous Concepts; 3 The Debate between Fuller, Hart and Dworkin; 4 The Relations between Law and Morality; 5 A Pluralist Framework; PART II LEGAL INTERACTIONISM; 6 What is Legal Interactionism?; 7 Understanding the Dynamics of Law; 8 Three Apparent Anomalies in Modern Law; 9 The Necessary and Contingent Relationship between Law and Morality; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This investigation of the dynamic intertwinement of law and morality argues that theoretical pluralism is better explained once law is accepted as an essentially ambiguous concept. The book develops a robust theory of law that increases our grasp on global legal pluralism and the dynamics of law and also emphasises the theory of legal interactionism. This helps us to understand apparent anomalies of modern law and does justice to the valuable core of truth in natural law and legal positivism.