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Item Details
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LAW'S COMMUNITY
LEGAL THEORY IN SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE |
| By: |
Roger Cotterrell |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£52.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198264909 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198264903 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
6 February, 1997 |
| Series: |
Oxford Socio-Legal Studies |
| Pages: |
398 |
| Description: |
This important collection of essays by a leading legal theorist seeks to re-locate the relationship between the traditional concerns of legal theory and the sociology of law, by establishing a consistent theoretical approach to the analysis of law in contemporary Western societies. This book is based upon previously published essays which have been extensively revised and updated, and offers an important contribution to the study of law and social theory. |
| Synopsis: |
Law's Community offers a distinctive analysis of law, identifying political and moral problems that are fundamental to contemporary legal theory. It portrays contemporary law as institutionalized doctrine, emphasizing ways in which legal modes of thought influence wider currents of understanding and belief in contemporary Western societies. Exploring relationships between law and sociology as contrasting and competing fields of knowledge, Law's Community develops ideas from social theory to identify key problems for legal development; in particular, those of restoring moral authority to law and of elaborating a concept of community that can guide legal regulation. The analysis leads to radical conclusions: among them, that law's functions need reconsideration at the most general level, that a unitary state legal system as portrayed in traditional kinds of legal theory may no longer be adequate in complex contemporary societies, and that law should be reconceptualized as a diverse but co-ordinated plurality of systems, sites, and forms of regulation. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Clarendon Press |
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Non-returnable |
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