Observing Law through Systems Theory

by Richard Nobles and David Schiff

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849462186
• ISBN13: 9781849462181
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"