Law as a Social System

Informationen zum Autor Prior to his death in 1998, Niklas Luhammn was Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Bielefeld University.This work has been translated from the original German by Prof. Alex Ziegert, and edited by Fatima Kastner, Richard Nobles, David Schiff, and Rosamund Ziegert. Klappentext This work represents Niklas Luhmann's definitive application of systems theory to the understanding of law. In it Luhmann reviews past attempts to create a theory of law and argues they all fail to capture how law operates in modern society. He presents an alternative, critical theory through analysing law as a system of communication. Zusammenfassung This work represents Niklas Luhmann's definitive application of systems theory to the understanding of law. In it Luhmann reviews past attempts to create a theory of law and argues they all fail to capture how law operates in modern society. He presents an alternative, critical theory through analysing law as a system of communication. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction 1: The Location of Legal Theory 2: The Operative Closure of the Legal System 3: The Function of Law 4: Coding and Programming 5: Justice: a Formula for Contingency 6: The Evolution of Law 7: The Position of Courts in the Legal System 8: Legal Argumentation 9: Politics and Law 10: Structural Couplings 11: The Self-description of the Legal System 12: Society and its Law Index

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This work represents Niklas Luhmann's definitive application of systems theory to the understanding of law. In it Luhmann reviews past attempts to create a theory of law and argues they all fail to capture how law operates in modern society. He presents an alternative, critical theory through analysing law as a system of communication.

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• Authors: Niklas Luhmann, Niklas/ Ziegert Luhmann
• Assisted by: Fatima Kastner (Editor), Richard Nobles (Editor), David Schiff (Editor), Klaus Ziegert (Translation), Klaus A. Ziegert (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2008
• EAN: 9780199546121
• ISBN: 978-0-19-954612-1
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Oxford Socio-Legal Studies; Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; Sozialtheorie, Recht und Gesellschaft, Rechtssoziologie