Law's Evolution and Human Understanding

By Laurence Claus

When should we follow the law? How can we know what law's words mean? What is law? Law's Evolution and Human Understanding presents fresh and surprising answers to these questions. In an account alive with the stories of our shared human history, Laurence Claus explains why we should discard the old idea that legal rules tell us what to do, and instead see law as a system of sayings that evolves among humans to help us better understand each other.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199735093
• ISBN13: 9780199735099
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"