Dilemmas of Law in the Welfare State

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List of contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- I Introduction -- The Transformation of Law in the Welfare State -- II The Welfare State and its Impact on Law -- Legal Culture and the Welfare State -- The Rule of Law and the Promotional Function of Law in the Welfare State -- A Concept of Social Law -- Legal Subjectivity as a Precondition for the Intertwinement of Law and the Welfare State -- III Dilemmas of Law in the Welfare State -- The Self-Reproduction of Law and its Limits -- The Rules of the Game in the Welfare State -- The Concept of Rights and the Welfare State -- Legal Discourse in the Positive State: A Post-Structuralist Account -- IV Perspectives of Legal Development -- Law as Medium and Law as Institution -- Materialization and Proceduralization in Modern Law -- Law as Critical Discussion -- Three Types of Legal Structure: The Conditional, the Purposive and the Relational Program -- After Legal Instrumentalism? Strategie Models of Post-Regulatory Law -- Authors' Biographical Sketches -- Name Index -- Subject Index

About the author

Gunther Teubner ist Professor für Privatrecht und Rechtssoziologie in Frankfurt und Centennial Visiting Professor an der London School of Economics.

Product details

• Assisted by: Gunthe Teubner (Editor), Gunther Teubner (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1986
• EAN: 9783110104950
• ISBN: 978-3-11-010495-0
• No. of pages: 341
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 27 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Illustrations: Num. figs.
• Series: European University Institute - Series A; European University Institute - Series A
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law