3 options
Institutions of law : an essay in legal theory / Neil MacCormick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacCormick, Neil.
- Series:
- Law, State, and Practical Reason
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Legal positivism.
- Jurisprudence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (334 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Offering an account of the nature of law and legal systems in the contemporary world, this book is written with a view to elucidating law, legal concepts and legal institutions in a manner that takes account of controversies but does not get bogged down in them.
- Contents:
- On normative order
- On institutional order
- Law and the constitutional state
- A problem : rules or habits?
- On persons
- Wrongs and duties
- Legal positions and relations: rights and obligations
- Legal relations and things: property
- Legal powers and validity
- Powers and public law: law and politics
- Constraints on power: fundamental rights
- Criminal law and civil society: law and morality
- Private law and civil society: law and economy
- Positive law and moral autonomy
- On law and justice
- Law and values: reflections on method.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 26, 2013).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-171483-6
- 0-19-156631-4
- OCLC:
- 336426844
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.