Law in Modern Society

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-926978-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 562 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Galligan, Denis J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Setting the bounds of law in modern society

- 2: Approaches to law in society

- 3: Law as social rules

- 4: Law prior to rules

- 5: Law as a system of rules

- 6: Social spheres

- 7: The reception of law

- 8: Law and coercion

- 9: Legal pluralism: parallel legal orders

- 10: Extended legal pluralism: informal legal orders

- 11: Does law have social functions?

- 12: The social value of law

- 13: Forms of modern legal orders

- 14: Social foundations of modern legal form

- 15: Implementation and the architecture of law

- 16: Implementation: the legal and social environment

- 17: Change through the law: the contours of compliance

Über Autor(innen)

Denis Galligan is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He teaches law and society, administrative law and legal and social theory.