Self-sufficiency of Law A Critical-institutional Theory of Social Order /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Croce, Mariano (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Σειρά: Law and Philosophy Library, 99
• Θέματα: Law.; Political science.; Law > Philosophy.; Anthropology.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Philosophy of Law.; Political Science.; Fundamentals of Law.

Self-sufficiency of Law: A Critical-institutional Theory of Social Order investigates the role of law, legal categories, and legal experts in the organisational dynamics of social collectivities. It demonstrates that law is a stable practice among publicly recognised experts who are called upon to s...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• Part I. Law as a complex practice: the rule-based model
• Overview
• 1. Legal theory as a scientific discipline and the variety of rules
• 2. Legal validity and the problem of rule-acceptance 
• 3. Reflective acceptance: reasons for action and criterion-rules
• 4. The legal practice and its (vanishing) borders 
• Part II. Law as a selective practice: the social and the legal
• Overview
• 5. The pluralist divide
• 6. Legal pluralism revised: law as the product of selection
• 7. Classic institutionalism: jural reality and legal selection
• 8. Exploring the jural continuum 
• Part III. The law as a special practice: legal field and social reality
• Overview 
• 9. Negotiating reality: knowledge and categories in the legal field
• 10. The ritual dimension of law: normality, normativity, and critique
• Epilogue: defending a pluralist critical-institutional view of law
• Bibliography
• Index.