Law In Modern Society

Author : Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1977-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780029328804

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"Law in Modern Society" is a comparative study of the place of law in societies as well as a criticism of social theory. Under what conditions do different kinds of law emerge? What are the bases of the rule of law ideal that marks advanced liberal, capitalist societies? What can the study of law teach us about social hierarchy and moral vision in these societies, and, indeed, about the specificity of Western civilization? Why do we find it necessary to struggle for the rule of law and impossible to achieve it? What political possibilities are closed or opened by present-day changes in the established styles of legality and legal thought? Unger deals with these questions in a broad range of historical settings. But he also relates them to the central issues of social theory: the method of explanation, the conditions of social order, and the nature of 'modern' society. the book argues that to resolve its own internal dilemmas the science of society must once again become both metaphysical and political.

Author : Denis Galligan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191018862

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Law in Modern Society by Denis Galligan Pdf

Providing an introduction to law in modern society, D. J. Galligan considers how legal theory, and particularly H. L. A Hart's The Concept of Law, has developed the idea of law as a highly developed social system, which has a distinctive character and structure, and which shapes and influences people's behaviour. The concept of law as a distinct social phenomenon is examined through reference to, and analysis of, the work of prominent legal and social theorists, in particular M. Weber, E. Durkheim, and N. Luhmann. Galligan's approach is guided by two main ideas: that the law is a social formation with its own character and features, and that at the same time it interacts with, and is affected by, other aspects of society. In analysing these two ideas, Galligan develops a general framework for law and society within which he considers various aspects including: the nature of social rules and the concept of law as a system of rules; whether law has particular social functions and how legal orders run in parallel; the place of coercion; the characteristic form of modern law and the social conditions that support it; implementation and compliance; and what happens when laws are used to change society. Law in Modern Society encourages legal scholars to consider the law as an expression of social relations, examining the connections and tensions between the positive law of modern society and the spontaneous relations they often try to direct or change.

Author : Mary Arden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198755845

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Common Law and Modern Society by Mary Arden Pdf

Law is a lasting social institution, but it must also be responsive to change. In this volume Mary Arden draws upon her experience to examine how judge-made law adapts to the evolving demands of society, how law reform works in practice, and the future of the judiciary in our diverse modern culture.

Author : Franz Neumann
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Jurisprudence
ISBN : UOM:39015012149301

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The Rule of Law by Franz Neumann Pdf

Author : W. Friedmann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520345355

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Law in a Changing Society by W. Friedmann Pdf

Author : Christopher W. Brooks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1139475290

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Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England by Christopher W. Brooks Pdf

Law, like religion, provided one of the principal discourses through which early-modern English people conceptualised the world in which they lived. Transcending traditional boundaries between social, legal and political history, this innovative and authoritative study examines the development of legal thought and practice from the later middle ages through to the outbreak of the English civil war, and explores the ways in which law mediated and constituted social and economic relationships within the household, the community, and the state at all levels. By arguing that English common law was essentially the creation of the wider community, it challenges many current assumptions and opens new perspectives about how early-modern society should be understood. Its magisterial scope and lucid exposition will make it essential reading for those interested in subjects ranging from high politics and constitutional theory to the history of the family, as well as the history of law.

Author : A. Javier Trevino
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412844604

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Classic Writings in Law and Society by A. Javier Trevino Pdf

This volume consists of outstanding essays by contemporary scholars and specialists on classic writings in law and society. This second edition expands the previous volume by adding additional statements. Included are commentaries on Edward A. Ross’s Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order, Karl N. Llewellyn’s Jurisprudence: Realism in Theory and Practice, Jerome Frank’s Law and the Modern Mind, Leon Petrazycki’s Law and Morality, and Karl Renner’s The Institutions of Private Law and their Social Functions. The goal of Classic Writings in Law and Society is to acquaint a new generation of students with classic writings by diverse social and legal scholars—ranging from Henry Sumner Maine, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Hans Kelsen to Eugen Ehrlich, Nicholas S. Timasheff, and Richard Quinney. This work continues to demonstrate their contemporary theoretical relevance. Accordingly, each chapter speaks of the scholars’ work in general, how the particular book under consideration fits into that corpus, and how the book is assessed in a present day context. These essays have a clear relation to the "classic" tradition in sociolegal thought. Reading the classics is useful in gaining a better understanding and appreciation of the essential foundation for a post-classic approach in law and social inquiry—an approach that can be found in such orientations as critical legal studies, chaos theory in law, and legal semiotics. Classic Writings in Law and Society includes commentaries that consider early writings that set the standard for the social scientific approach in examining issues of law and punishment, social control, joint stock companies, business firms and nation-states in the study of law and society.

Author : Alberto Febbrajo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351040327

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Law, Legal Culture and Society by Alberto Febbrajo Pdf

This volume addresses the pluralistic identity of the legal order. It argues that the mutual reflexivity of the different ways society perceives law and law perceives society eclipses the unique formal identity of written law. It advances a distinctive approach to the plural ways in which legal cultures work in a modern society, through the metaphor of the mirror. As a mirror of society, it distinguishes between the structure and function of legal culture within the legal system, and the external representation of law in society. This duality is further problematized in relation to the increasing transnationalisation of law. Based on a multi-level interpretation of the concept of legal culture, the work is divided into three parts: the first addresses the mutual reflections of social and legal norms that support a pluralist representation of internal legal cultures, the second concentrates on the external legal cultures that constantly enable pragmatic adjustments of the legal order to its social environment, and the third concludes the book with a theoretical discussion of the issues presented.

Author : P. S. Atiyah
Publisher : OPUS
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Law
ISBN : 0192892673

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Law and Modern Society by P. S. Atiyah Pdf

How and why is so much new law made? By what right does a judge order that someone be sent to jail? Why is so much of the law so contentious, and why should we, the people, accept the laws made by those who claim the right to govern us? In this lucid, stimulating, and completely updated survey, P. S. Atiyah introduces the reader to a number of fundamental issues about English law, the legal profession, and the adjudicative process. This new edition gives greater emphasis to the effect of membership of the European Community on English law, and gives an expanded account of the European Convention on Human Rights with its subsequent effects on our laws. Atiyah also looks at the recent controversy over the independence of the judiciary, problems arising from the cost of legal services and legal aid, and the many worrying miscarriages of justice which have tainted the legal system in the past decade.

Author : Christoph Castelein,René Foqué,Boudewijn Bouckaert,Alain Verbeke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105134512826

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Imperative Inheritance Law in a Late-modern Society by Christoph Castelein,René Foqué,Boudewijn Bouckaert,Alain Verbeke Pdf

This volume in the EFL-Series aims at enabling a larger and more contextualised view on succession law, by studying the issue of imperative inheritance law from five different perspectives: legal anthropology, legal history, sociology of law, law and economics, and comparative law. All perspectives are introduced by eminent scholars.

Author : Richard Nobles,David Schiff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317107286

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Law, Society and Community by Richard Nobles,David Schiff Pdf

This collection of socio-legal studies, written by leading theorists and researchers from around the world, offers original, perceptive and critical contributions to ideas and theories that have been expounded by Roger Cotterrell over a long and distinguished career. Engaging with many classic issues and theories of the sociology of law, the contributions are likely to become classics themselves as they tackle some of the most significant challenges that modern law faces. They do not shy away from what one of the contributors describes as the complexity and multiplicity of our contemporary legal world. The book is organized in three parts: socio-legal themes; methodological and jurisprudential themes; globalization, cultural and comparative law themes. Starting with a chapter that re-engages with the need to interpret legal ideas sociologically, and ending with one that explores the global significance of modern fascination with the idea of the rule of law, this selection offers important additions to the oeuvre of Roger Cotterrell (a list of whose academic writings is included in the book).

Author : Jerome Frank,Brian H. Bix
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351509565

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Law and the Modern Mind by Jerome Frank,Brian H. Bix Pdf

Law and the Modern Mind first appeared in 1930 when, in the words of Judge Charles E. Clark, it "fell like a bomb on the legal world." In the generations since, its influence has grown-today it is accepted as a classic of general jurisprudence.The work is a bold and persuasive attack on the delusion that the law is a bastion of predictable and logical action. Jerome Frank's controversial thesis is that the decisions made by judge and jury are determined to an enormous extent by powerful, concealed, and highly idiosyncratic psychological prejudices that these decision-makers bring to the courtroom.

Author : P. S. Atiyah
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Law
ISBN : 0192891529

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Law and Modern Society by P. S. Atiyah Pdf

The law in a modern society is a bulky and complex instrument, with a tendency to become less fixed, less rule-oriented, and more discretionary. An institution made by men for the government of men, the law today can all too readily confuse and dismay us. How and why is so much new law made? By what right does a judge order that a man be sent to jail? Why is so much law so bad, and why should we, the people, accept the laws made by those who claim the right to govern us?In this lucid, stimulating and completely updated survey which presupposes no specialist knowledge of the subject, P. S. Atiyah introduces the reader to a number of fundamental issues about the law, the legal profession, and the adjudicative process. This new edition gives greater emphasis to the effect of membership of the European Community on English law, and gives an expanded account of the European convention on Human Rights with its subsequent effects on English law. Atiyah also looks at the recent controversy over the independence of the judiciary, problems arising from the cost of legal services and legal aid, and the many appalling miscarriages of justice which have disfigured the legal system in the past decade.

Author : David Scott Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Comparative law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105134433528

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Encyclopedia of Law & Society: F-O by David Scott Clark Pdf

Provides more than seven hundred alphabetical entries covering the interaction of law and society around the globe, including the sociology of law, law and economics, law and political science, psychology and law, and criminology.

Author : Marc Galanter
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Law
ISBN : 0195632052

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Law and Society in Modern India by Marc Galanter Pdf

Though "modern Indian law" is actually of Western origin, Galanter here contends that independent India has accepted this mid-twentieth century legal system intellectually and institutionally. His thirteen articles, covering a wide range of issues in Indian society, explore the operation of modern Indian law and explicate the ways in which a complex body of formal law accommodates and adjusts itself to local conditions to which it is alien.