Law as Institutional Normative Order

✍ Scribed by Maksymilian Del Mar and Zenon Bankowski

Publisher: Ashgate Pub
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 217
Series: The Edinburgh centre for law and society
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

MacCormick's "Institutions of Law" is the culmination of a lifetime's work in legal theory by one of the world's most respected legal theorists. Featuring an impressive collection of contributions from well-known legal theorists from around the world, all of whom are familiar with MacCormick's work, this collection provides a cutting edge account of the book's significance.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
List of Contributors......Page 8
1 Law as Institutional Normative Order: An Introduction......Page 10
Part I Concepts of Law......Page 24
2 Institutions of Law from a Global Perspective: Standpoint, Pluralism and Non-State Law......Page 26
3 Institutions and the Concept of Law: A Reply to Ronald Dworkin (with some help from Neil MacCormick)......Page 44
4 Neil MacCormick’s Legal Positivism......Page 54
Part II Institutions and Justice......Page 74
5 Institutional Theories and Institutions of Law: On Neil MacCormick’s Savoury Blend of Legal Institutionalism......Page 76
6 Institutions and Aims......Page 92
7 What is a Legal Transaction?......Page 112
Part III Criminal Law......Page 132
8 A Comment on Personality and Corporate Crime......Page 134
9 Criminal Law and Civil Peace......Page 140
Part IV The Methodology of Jurisprudence......Page 152
10 Methodology and the Articulation of Insight: Some Lessons from MacCormick’s Institutions of Law......Page 154
11 Is Bad Law Still Law? Is Bad Law Really Law?......Page 170
Part V Reply......Page 194
12 Concluding for Institutionalism......Page 196
Index......Page 210

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Order within Anarchy: The Laws of War as

📁 Order within Anarchy: The Laws of War as an International Institution

✍ James D. Morrow 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

Order Within Anarchy focuses on how the laws of war create strategic expectations about how states and their soldiers will act during war, which can help produce restraint. International law as a political institution helps to create such expectations by specifying how violence should be limited and

Law as Institution

📁 Law as Institution

✍ Massimo La Torre (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English

<p>The book’s argument moves from discussing the relation between law and power. Theories defending the primacy of law over power are played against doctrines which center around the prevailing role of law. Legal positivism and natural law are here the real issue at stake. Constitutionalism and the

Homo Juridicus: Culture as a Normative O

📁 Homo Juridicus: Culture as a Normative Order

✍ Isaak I. Dore 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 Carolina Academic Press 🌐 English

Law as institutional fact

📁 Law as institutional fact

✍ Neil MacCormick 📂 Library 📅 1973 🏛 University of Edinburgh 🌐 English

Law as a Social Institution

📁 Law as a Social Institution

✍ Hamish Ross 📂 Library 📅 2001 🏛 Hart Publishing 🌐 English

This book develops the rudiments of a sociological perspective on state law and legal theory. It outlines a distinctive approach to theoretical enquiry that offers an improved understanding of law as a social and institutional phenomenon. The book draws upon Max Weber’s sociological and juristic wri

Norma e forma / Norm and form

📁 Norma e forma / Norm and form

✍ Editoriale Domus S.p.A. Milano 📂 Magazine 📅 1999