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Law as a social system

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Publication details: Oxford Oxford University Press 2004Description: 498pISBN:
  • 9780198262381
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 340.115000 LUH
Contents:
Contents: Foreword, Niklas Luhmann; Introduction, Richard Nobles and David Schiff 1; 1. The Location of Legal Theory 53; 2. The Operative Closure of the Legal System 76; 3. The Function of Law 142; 4. Coding and Programming 173; 5. Justice: a Formula for Contingency 211; 6. The Evolution of Law 230; 7. The Position of Courts in the Legal System 274; 8. Legal Argumentations 305; 9. Politics and Law 357; 10. Structural Couplings 381; 11. The Self-description of the Legal System 423; 12. Society and its Law 464; Index 491.
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Contents:
Foreword, Niklas Luhmann;
Introduction, Richard Nobles and David Schiff 1;
1. The Location of Legal Theory 53;
2. The Operative Closure of the Legal System 76;
3. The Function of Law 142;
4. Coding and Programming 173;
5. Justice: a Formula for Contingency 211;
6. The Evolution of Law 230;
7. The Position of Courts in the Legal System 274;
8. Legal Argumentations 305;
9. Politics and Law 357;
10. Structural Couplings 381;
11. The Self-description of the Legal System 423;
12. Society and its Law 464;
Index 491.