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Observing law through systems theory / Richard Nobles and David Schiff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nobles, Richard, author.
- Series:
- Legal theory today.
- Legal theory today
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social systems.
- Sociological jurisprudence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (291 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, United Kingdom ; Portland, OR : Hart Publishing, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-267) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781472566287
- 1472566289
- 9781782250111
- 1782250115
- OCLC:
- 843639720
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