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Observing Law through Systems Theory

Name: Observing Law through Systems Theory
Brand: Hart Publishing
SKU: 9781849462181
Price: 1008.80 HKD
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Author: Richard Nobles; David Schiff
ISBN: 9781849462181

Edited by Richard Nobles · David Schiff

Hart Publishing December 2012

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ISBN-13: 9781849462181
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Publication: December 2012
Format: Paperback , 290 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This book uses Niklas Luhmann's systems theory to explore how the legal system operates as one of modern society's subsystems.

The authors demonstrate how this theory alters our understanding of some of the most important and controversial issues within law: the nature of judicial communication and legal argument; the claim that it can be right to disobey law; the character of legal pluralism and globalisation; time and its construction within law; the significance of the rule of law and human rights and the role of appeals to, and within, law.

Systems theory enables the authors to demonstrate how the legal system observes its own operations through its own communications, and how this contrasts with the manner in which law is observed by other systems such as the media and politics.

In this context the authors explore the constraints imposed by systems, in particular the legal system, upon the individuals who participate in them.