Observing Law Through Systems Theory.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (290 pages)
- Legal Theory Today Series .
- Legal Theory Today Series .
Prelims -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Is the Legal System a System? -- 2. Why Do Judges Talk the Way They Do? -- 3. Can One Have a Right to Disobey a Law? -- 4. Understanding Legal Pluralism -- 5. How Law Constructs Time -- 6. Politics and Law: The Rule of Law, Constitutional Law, and Human Rights -- 7. Control through Law -- 8. Appeals in Law -- Bibliography -- Index.
This book uses Niklas Luhmann's systems theory to explore how the legal system operates as one of modern society's subsystems.