Law and intersystemic communication : understanding 'structural coupling' / edited by Alberto Febbrajo, Gorm Harste.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Febbrajo, Alberto.

Harste, Gorm.

Series:

Studies in the Sociology of Law

Studies in the sociology of law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Social aspects.

Law.

Sociological jurisprudence.

Social systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume provides an overview of current perspectives on socio-legal studies with particular attention focused on the concept of 'structural coupling'. The first part of the book presents a reconstruction of theoretical tendencies in the field of socio-legal studies, characterised by the emergence of a transnational model of legal systems no longer connected to territorial borders and culturally specific aspects of single legal orders. In the following parts of the book, the contributions analyse some concrete cases of interrelation between law and society from an empirical and theoretical

Contents:

The trans-planetary journey of a legal sociologist / André-Jean Arnaud

The growth of legal transnationalism / Roger Cotterrell

A comment / Alberto Febbrajo

Studying structural coupling at the macro level : the big, large and huge case of state-building / Gorm Harste

Reflexive governance in the european union? : an example of structural coupling / Julien Broquet

Contract as a form of intersystemic communication / Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen

Economic system and legal regulation : the challenge of financial crises / John Paterson

Values as certain uncertainties : the paradox of value communication in organisational practice / Victoria von Groddeck

Morality, regulation and intersystemic communications / Diane Laflamme

Making law together? : on some intersystemic conditions of judicial cooperation / Jan Winczoreck

Rights in Niklas Luhmann's systems theory / Pierre Guibentif

A case of structural coupling : the right of privacy in the United Ctates / Katayoun Baghai

Structural coupling between legal system and the media : contrasting aspects of criminal law in the UK / Richard Nobles, David Schiff

Polycontextural constitutionalism in the world society / Lasha Bregvadze

Legal pluralism as a form of structural coupling / Gunther Teubner.

Notes:

First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4094-7147-0

1-317-10789-6

1-315-59148-0

1-317-10788-8

1-4094-2111-2

1-299-05611-3

9781315591483

OCLC:

827206874