Legal Theory And The Media Of Law

Author : Thomas Vesting
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Law
ISBN : 1784711594

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Legal Theory and the Media of Law by Thomas Vesting Pdf

"As many disciplines in the humanities have experienced a focus on culture's impact in recent decades, questions surrounding the significance of media such as writing, print, and computer networks have become increasingly relevant. This book seeks to demonstrate that a media and cultural theory perspective can also be highly productive for legal theory. Thomas Vesting approaches law as an artificial and constructive element within culture and emphasizes the many possibilities that varied forms of media have opened to law, from oral history through to scripture, print and modern day digital networks. While providing historical examples for these theoretical assumptions, the connections between media and law are reconstructed in a practical way and with an eye toward the future. The book closes with an analysis of our present age as a network culture and discusses how this metaphorical framework can be of use in thinking about issues such as constitutionalism, human rights, the state, democracy and education. 'Legal Theory and the Media of Law' will be of great interest to legal, cultural and media theorists as well as academics of politics, sociology and philosophy" -- Back cover.

Author : E. M. Barendt
Publisher : Dartmouth Publishing Company
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Freedom of speech
ISBN : 1855211475

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Media Law by E. M. Barendt Pdf

Author : Anne Barron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1234 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-13
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063273499

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Introduction to Jurisprudence and Legal Theory by Anne Barron Pdf

This text lays out a course of study combining the traditional subject matter of jurisprudence with a series of introductions to a variety of other theoretical perspectives. It is designed for those taking jurisprudence/legal theory courses, and political science, philosophy and sociology students.

Author : Thomas Vesting
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3848746573

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Theory of Law by Thomas Vesting Pdf

Author : Jan M. Broekman,Larry Catà Backer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789400754584

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Lawyers Making Meaning by Jan M. Broekman,Larry Catà Backer Pdf

This book present a structure for understanding and exploring the semiotic character of law and law systems. Cultivating a deep understanding for the ways in which lawyers make meaning—the way in which they help make the world and are made, in turn by the world they create —can provide a basis for consciously engaging in the work of the law and in the production of meaning. The book first introduces the reader to the idea of semiotics in general and legal semiotics in particular, as well as to the major actors and shapers of the field, and to the heart of the matter: signs. The second part studies the development of the strains of thinking that together now define semiotics, with attention being paid to the pragmatics, psychology and language of legal semiotics. A third part examines the link between legal theory and semiotics, the practice of law, the critical legal studies movement in the USA, the semiotics of politics and structuralism. The last part of the book ties the different strands of legal semiotics together, and closely looks at semiotics in the lawyer’s toolkit—such as: text, name and meaning. ​

Author : Emilios Christodoulidis,Ruth Dukes,Marco Goldoni
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781786438898

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Research Handbook on Critical Legal Theory by Emilios Christodoulidis,Ruth Dukes,Marco Goldoni Pdf

Critical theory, characteristically linked with the politics of theoretical engagement, covers the manifold of the connections between theory and praxis. This thought-provoking Research Handbook captures the broad range of those connections as far as legal thought is concerned and retains an emphasis both on the politics of theory, and on the notion of theoretical engagement. The first part examines the question of definition and tracks the origins and development of critical legal theory along its European and North American trajectories. The second part looks at the thematic connections between the development of legal theory and other currents of critical thought such as; Feminism, Marxism, Critical Race Theory, varieties of post-modernism, as well as the various ‘turns’ (ethical, aesthetic, political) of critical legal theory. The third and final part explores particular fields of law, addressing the question how the field has been shaped by critical legal theory, or what critical approaches reveal about the field, with the clear focus on opportunities for social transformation.

Author : Neil MacCormick
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1994-08-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191018596

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Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory by Neil MacCormick Pdf

What makes an argument in a law case good or bad? Can legal decisions be justified by purely rational argument or are they ultimately determined by more subjective influences? These questions are central to the study of jurisprudence, and are thoroughly and critically examined in Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory, now with a new and up-to-date foreword. Its clarity of explanation and argument make this classic legal text readily accessible to lawyers, philosophers, and any general reader interested in legal processes, human reasoning, or practical logic.

Author : Jordi Ferrer Beltrán,José Juan Moreso,Diego M. Papayannis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789400760677

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Neutrality and Theory of Law by Jordi Ferrer Beltrán,José Juan Moreso,Diego M. Papayannis Pdf

This book brings together twelve of the most important legal philosophers in the Anglo-American and Civil Law traditions. The book is a collection of the papers these philosophers presented at the Conference on Neutrality and Theory of Law, held at the University of Girona, in May 2010. The central question that the conference and this collection seek to answer is: Can a theory of law be neutral? The book covers most of the main jurisprudential debates. It presents an overall discussion of the connection between law and morals, and the possibility of determining the content of law without appealing to any normative argument. It examines the type of project currently being held by jurisprudential scholarship. It studies the different approaches to theorizing about the nature or concept of law, the role of conceptual analysis and the essential features of law. Moreover, it sheds some light on what can be learned from studying the non-essential features of law. Finally, it analyzes the nature of legal statements and their truth values. This book takes the reader a step further to understanding law.

Author : Vesting, Thomas
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788979320

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State Theory and the Law by Vesting, Thomas Pdf

There has been renewed and growing interest in exploring the significant role played by law in the centralization of power and sovereignty – right from the earliest point. This timely book serves as an introduction into state theory, providing an overview of the conceptual history and the interdisciplinary tradition of the continental European general theory of the state.

Author : MaksymilianDel Mar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351560498

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Legal Theory and the Legal Academy by MaksymilianDel Mar Pdf

The third in a series of three volumes on Contemporary Legal Theory, this volume deals with four topics: 1) the role of legal theory in the legal curriculum; 2) the teaching of legal theory; 3) the relationship of legal theory to legal scholarship; and 4) the relationship of legal theory to comparative law. The focus of the first two topics is on the common law world, where the debates over the aims and proper place of legal theory in the study of law have traversed a good deal of ground since John Austin's 1828 lecture, 'The Uses and the Study of Jurisprudence.' These first two parts offer a selection of the most important papers, including surveys, as well as pedagogical viewpoints and particular course descriptions from analytical, critical, feminist, law-and-literature and global perspectives. The last three decades have seen just as many changes for legal scholarship and comparative law. These changes (such as the rise of empirical legal scholarship) have often attracted the attention of legal theorists. Within comparative law, the last thirty years have witnessed intense methodological reflection within the discipline; the results of these reflections are themselves properly recognised as legal theoretical contributions. The volume collects the key papers, including those by Neil MacCormick, Mark Van Hoecke, Andrew Halpin, William Ewald and Geoffrey Samuel.

Author : Mark Van Hoecke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847311252

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Law as Communication by Mark Van Hoecke Pdf

Human interaction and communication are not only regulated by law,but such communication plays an increasing role in the making and legitimation of law, involving various kinds of participants in the communication process. The precise nature of these communications depends on the legal actors involved -- for instance legislators, judges, legal scholars, and the media -- and on the situations where they arise – for instance at the national and supra-national level and within or between State law and non-State law. The author argues that our conception of legal system, of democracy, of the legitimation of law and of the respective role of judges, legislators and legal scholars should be based on a pluralist and communicative approach, rather than on a monolithic and hierarchical one. This book analyses the main problems of jurisprudence from such a communicative perspective

Author : Richard A. Posner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674013605

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Frontiers of Legal Theory by Richard A. Posner Pdf

The most exciting development in legal thinking since World War II has been the growth of interdisciplinary legal studies. Judge Richard Posner has been a leader in this movement, and his new book explores its rapidly expanding frontier.

Author : Michael Giudice
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781784718817

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Understanding the Nature of Law by Michael Giudice Pdf

Understanding the Nature of Law explores methodological questions about how best to explain law. Among these questions, one is central: is there something about law which determines how it should be theorized? This novel book explains the importance of

Author : Emmanuel Melissaris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317005711

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Ubiquitous Law by Emmanuel Melissaris Pdf

Ubiquitous Law explores the possibility of understanding the law in dissociation from the State while, at the same time, establishing the conditions of meaningful communication between various legalities. This book argues that the enquiry into the legal has been biased by the implicit or explicit presupposition of the State's exclusivity to a claim to legality as well as the tendency to make the enquiry into the law the task of experts, who purport to be able to represent the legal community's commitments in an authoritative manner. Very worryingly, the experts' point of view then becomes constitutive of the law and parasitic to and distortive of people's commitments. Ubiquitous Law counter-suggests a new methodology for legal theory, which will not be based on rigid epistemological and normative assumptions but rather on self-reflection and mutual understanding and critique, so as to establish acceptable differences on the basis of a commonality.

Author : Marett Leiboff,Mark Thomas
Publisher : Lawbook Company
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Jurisprudence
ISBN : 0455226067

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Legal Theories by Marett Leiboff,Mark Thomas Pdf

So what does legal theory have to do with life, the universe, and everything -- including the everyday practices of the law? LEGAL THEORIES: CONTEXTS AND PRACTICES shows how the seemingly remote world of legal theory, philosophy and jurisprudence is actually used in the day-to-day experience of law in all its forms. The book considers how basic legal concepts, such as tort and contract law, are grounded in social and political theory, and how the different legal outcomes will result from the use of theories of varying types and dimensions. This new book reinforces Marett Leiboff and Mark Thomas' reputation as innovators and popularises of legal theory as an active practice of law. Drawing on the historical, legal and social conditions in which various legal theories emerged, this book examines how they influenced and continue to influence the practices of law. Diagrams, illustrations, tables, charts and now photographs are used to explain and uncover the ideas behind legal theory and its uses in practice, and an historical and contextual timeline tracks the contexts and practices of the theories across generations. In doing so, LEGAL THEORIES: CONTEXTS AND PRACTICES provides a new and original exploration of legal theory and its relationship with society and practice. Leiboff and Thomas tell legal theory as a story, through a dispute in 17th century England between a king and a judge. Their explorations of legal theory encompass real, decided case law -- and Monty Python, Harry Potter and stories and ideas drawn from popular culture, psychology, and contemporary life. This book makes for an entertaining, lively, and engaging read, despite its serious purpose. LEGAL THEORIES: CONTEXTS AND PRACTICES is highly suitable for anyone engaging in legal theory, legal philosophy, and jurisprudence -- it is invaluable reading for scholars and practitioners alike.