Buch, Englisch, 398 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 562 g
Legal Theory in Sociological Perspective
Buch, Englisch, 398 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 562 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-826490-3
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Law's Community offers a distinctive analysis of law, identifying political and moral problems that are fundamental to contemporary legal theory. It portrays contemporary law as institutionalized doctrine, emphasizing ways in which legal modes of thought influence wider currents of understanding and belief in contemporary Western societies. Exploring relationships between law and sociology as contrasting and competing fields of knowledge, Law's Community develops ideas from social theory to identify key problems for legal development; in particular, those of restoring moral authority to law and of elaborating a concept of community that can guide legal regulation. The analysis leads to radical conclusions: among them, that law's functions need reconsideration at the most general level, that a unitary state legal system as portrayed in traditional kinds of legal theory may no longer be adequate in complex contemporary societies, and that law should be reconceptualized as a diverse but co-ordinated plurality of systems, sites, and forms of regulation.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Theorie und Methoden der Ethnologie
- Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
Weitere Infos & Material
- Preface
- Part 1: Law and Sociology
- 1: Introduction - Analysing Law's Power
- 2: The Sociological Concept of Law
- 3: Law and Sociology: The Constitution and Confrontations of Disciplines
- 4: Sociology of Law in Britain: A Case Study
- 5: Sociological Perspectives on Legal Closure
- Part 2: Law in Social Theory
- 6: Law, Ideology, and Power: The Marxist Tradition
- 7: Legaliy and Legitimacy: The Sociology of Max Weber
- 8: Social Foundations of the Rule of Law: Franz Neumann and Otto Kirchheimer
- 9: Law, Morality, and Solidarity: The Durkheimian Tradition
- 10: Critique and Law: The Legacy of the Frankfurt School
- Part 3: Law, Power, and Community
- 11: Law's Images of Society
- 12: Feasible Regulation for Democracy and Social Justice
- 13: Legal Theory and the Image of Legality
- 14: Socio-Legal Studies: Between Policy and Community
- 15: Conclusion - Imagining Law's Community
- Bibliography and Index
