Concepts of law : comparative, jurisprudential, and social science perspectives

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Author:

Donlan, Seán Patrick, editor.

ISBN:

9781409455264

9781409455271

9781472401540

Physical Description:

xi, 257 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

Juris diversitas

Juris diversitas.

Contents:

Concepts of law : an introduction / Beyond the state in and of legal theory / Do "legal systems" exist? The concept of law and comparative law / The concept of law : a Wittgensteinian approach with some ethnomethodological specifications / The truth is out there? Legal pluralism and the language-game / Remembering and applying legal pluralism : law as kite flying / A sense of law : on shared normative experiences / Three perils of legal pluralism / Legal sociology and the sociology of norms / Is law a special domain? On the boundary between the legal and the social / The creation and use of concepts of law when confronting legal and normative plurality / A concept of law for global legal pluralism? / The concept of law in postnational perspective / What is the context in "law in context"? / Short notes on the legal pluralism(s) in Somaliland

Subject Term:

Legal polycentricity.

Law -- Philosophy.

Added Author:

Donlan, Seán Patrick,

Heckendorn Urscheler, Lukas,

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Summary

Debates surrounding the concept of law are not new. For a wide variety of reasons and in a wide variety of ways, the meaning of 'law' has long been an important part of Western thought, both within legal scholarship and beyond. The contributors to Concepts of Law are international experts from the fields of comparative law, legal philosophy, and the social sciences. Combining theoretical analyses with case studies, they explore various legal concepts and contexts from diverse national and disciplinary perspectives. Legal and normative pluralism is a theme throughout. Some chapters discuss the development of state law and legal systems. Others wrestle with law's rhetoric and the potential utility of alternative vocabularies, e.g., 'governance' and 'governmentality'. Others reveal the rich polyjurality of the present, from the local to the global. The result is a rich picture of both present scholarship on laws and norms and the state of contemporary legal complexity, each crossing traditional boundaries.