Form and Function in a Legal System: A General Study
Cambridge University Press (2006)
| Abstract | This book addresses three major questions about law and legal systems: (1) What are the defining and organizing forms of legal institutions, legal rules, interpretive methodologies, and other legal phenomena? (2) How does frontal and systematic focus on these forms advance understanding of such phenomena? (3) What credit should the functions of forms have when such phenomena serve policy and related purposes, rule of law values, and fundamental political values such as democracy, liberty, and justice? This is the first book that seeks to offer general answers to these questions and thus gives form in the law its due. The answers not only provide articulate conversancy with the subject but also reveal insights into the nature of law itself, the oldest and foremost problem in legal theory and allied subjects. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Law Philosophy Law Methodology | |||||||||
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| Call number | K237.S86 2006 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0521857651 9780521857659 0521123887 | |||||||||
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