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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812231403321

Autore

Nobles Richard

Titolo

Observing law through systems theory / / Richard Nobles and David Schiff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, United Kingdom ; ; Portland, OR : , : Hart Publishing, , 2013

ISBN

1-4725-6628-9

1-78225-011-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 p.)

Collana

Legal theory today

Disciplina

340.115

Soggetti

Social systems

Sociological jurisprudence

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 (pages 255-267) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Is the legal system a system? -- Why do judges talk the way they do? -- Can one have a right to disobey a law? -- Understanding legal pluralism -- How law constructs time -- Politics and law : the rule of law, constitutional law, and human rights -- Control through law -- Appeals in law.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book uses Niklas Luhmann's systems theory to explore how the legal system operates as one of modern society's subsystems. The authors demonstrate how this theory alters our understanding of some of the most important and controversial issues within law: the nature of judicial communication and legal argument; the claim that it can be right to disobey law; the character of legal pluralism and globalisation; time and its construction within law; the significance of the rule of law and human rights and the role of appeals to, and within, law."--Bloomsbury Publishing.