Law Unlimited

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-02423-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 241 mm x 164 mm, Gewicht: 422 g

Reihe: Social Justice

This book engages with a traditional yet persistent question of legal theory – what is law? However, instead of attempting to define and limit law, the aim of the book is to unlimit law, to take the idea of law beyond its conventionally accepted boundaries into the material and plural domains of an interconnected human and nonhuman world. Against the backdrop of analytical jurisprudence, the book draws theoretical connections and continuities between different experiences, spheres, and modalities of law. Taking up the many forms of critical and socio-legal thought, it presents a broad challenge to legal essentialism and abstraction, as well as an important contribution to more general normative theory. Reading, crystallising, and extending themes that have emerged in legal thought over the past century, this book is the culmination of the author’s 25 years of engagement with legal theory. Its bold attempt to forge a thoroughly contemporary approach to law will be of enormous value to those with interests in legal and socio-legal theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davies, Margaret (Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia)

Davies, Margaret

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Theoretical Variables – An Overview

- Limited and Unlimited Law

- Legal Materialism and Social Existence

- A New Legal Materialism

- Inner and Outer Space

- Scales of Law

- Subjects and Perspective

- Imagining Law

- Pathfinding

- Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Margaret Davies is Professor of Law at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.