TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nobles,Richard
AU  - Schiff,David
TI  - Observing Law Through Systems Theory
T2  - Legal Theory Today Series
SN  - 9781782250111
AV  - K370 -- .N625 2013eb 
U1  - 340.115 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
KW  - Sociological jurisprudence
KW  - Social systems
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - This book uses Niklas Luhmann's systems theory to explore how the legal system operates as one of modern society's subsystems
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ER  -