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Author Nobles, Richard.

Title Observing law through systems theory / Richard Nobles and David Schiff
Published Oxford ; Portland, OR : Hart Pub., 2013

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Description xvi, 274 pages ; 24 cm
Series Legal theory today
Legal theory today.
Summary "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."--Back cover
"This book is complementary to our book A sociology of jurisprudence, although it is not necessary for readers to have read that book in order to engage with what we present here."--Preface
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-267) and index
Subject Sociological jurisprudence.
Social systems.
Author Schiff, David (Law professor)
ISBN 9781849462181 (paperback)
1849462186 (paperback)