Law, Legal Culture and Society: Mirrored Identities of the Legal Order

ISBN-13: 9781138488366 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 204 str.

Alberto Febbrajo

Opis

This volume addresses the different ways in which legal cultures work in a modern society. It is based on a multi-level interpretation of the concept of legal culture.

Spis treści

Introduction;  PART I TOWARDS A REFLEXIVE LEGAL CULTURE;  1. The Normative Anatomy of Society;  2. A Typology of Legal Cultures;  3. Pluripoiesis of Law and the Kaleidoscope of Legal Cultures;  4. Towards a Global Legal Culture? Spaces of Law in the Transnational Constellation;  5. Competing Mirrors. Law’s Blind Spots in Philosophical and Social-Scientific Review;  PART II ON THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONING OF LEGAL SYSTEMS;  6. Normative Force and Political Intelligence;  7. Balancing Legal Principles and Legal Topics;  8. Questionable Neutrality. Personal Values in Judicial Adjudication;  9. The Leaking Law;  10. The Postmodern Administrative Law;  APPENDIX;  11. The Sociological Observation of the Theory and Practice of Law;  12. Some Problems with Reflexive Law;

O autorze

Alberto Febbrajo is Senior Professor of Sociology of Law at the Department of Law, University of Macerata, Italy.