Law's New Boundaries

The Consequences of Legal Autopoiesis
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-138-72839-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

This title was first published in 2001. A collection of important essays on the consequences of the Autopoietic theory of law, with contributions from a wide range of leading theorists from different legal jurisdictions, including an original paper by Gunther Teubner.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Priban, Jiri

Pribán, Jirí

Nelken, David

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Jirí Pribán and David Nelken. Theorizing Autopoietic Law: Alienating justice: on the surplus value of the twelfth camel, Gunther Teubner; The specific Autopoiesis of law: between derivative autonomy and generalized paradox, Jean Clam; The representation of law’s autonomy in Autopoiesis theory, Roger Cotterrell; Legitimation between the noise of politics and the order of law: a critique of Autopoietic rationality, Jirí Pribán; The construction and demolition of the Luhmann Heresy, Michael King. Applying Autopoietic Law Theory: Autopoiesis and the natural environment, Eric W. Orts; The concept of reflexive labour law: its theoretical background and possible applications, Ralf Rogowski; Criminal justice: Autopoietic insights, Richard Nobles and David Schiff; Modernizing justice inside UK PLC: mimesis, de-differentiation and colonization, Tim Murphy; Abiding the world: globalism and the Lex Mercatoria, Peter Fitzpatrick; Beyond the metaphor of legal transplants?: consequences of Autopoietic theory for the study of cross-cultural legal adaptation, David Nelken.

Über Autor(innen)

Jirí Pribán, Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague, The Czech Republic and Lecturer, Cardiff Law School, University of Wales, UK and David Nelken, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Legal Institutions and Social Change, University of Macerata, Italy. Jiri Priban is associate professor of legal philosophy and sociology at the Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague, and lectures at the Cardiff Law School, University of Wales. He is author of the book 'Dissidents of Law'(Ashgate, 2001) and co- edited 'The Rule of Law in Central Europe’ (Ashgate, 1999, with James Young). He also published numerous articles in the field of sociology of law, legal philosophy, constitutionalism, human rights and post-totalitarian societies. David Nelken is Distinguished Research Professor of Law in the Department of Law at the University of Wales at Cardiff. He previously taught legal and social theory at the University of Edinburgh and at University College, London. David Nelken has published widely in the fields of legal and social theory, sociology of law and criminology. Recently his main focus has been on comparative sociology of law (with Dartmouth he published Comparing Legal Cultures in 1997, and Contrasting Criminal Justice in 2000) He is a distinguished scholar of the American Sociological Association, Trustee of the Law and Society Association, Vice President of the RCSL (International Sociological Association), on the editorial board of 14 scientific journals in Italy, UK, USA and elsewhere. Dr Nelken is the recipient of the ISA-RCSL Adam Podgórecki Prize 2011, for outstanding achievements in socio-legal research, in the form of distinguished and outstanding lifetime achievement.