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Institutions of law : an essay in legal theory / Neil MacCormick.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2007.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 317 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191714832
  • 9780191566318
Other title:
  • Essay in legal theory
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • K331 .I578 2007
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Contents:
On institutional order -- Law and the constitutional state -- A problem : rules or habits? -- On persons -- Wrongs and duties -- Legal positions and relations: rights and obligations -- Legal relations and things: property -- Legal powers and validity -- Powers and public law: law and politics -- Constraints on power: fundamental rights -- Criminal law and civil society: law and morality -- Private law and civil society: law and economy -- Positive law and moral autonomy -- On law and justice -- Law and values: reflections on method.
Summary: Offering an account of the nature of law and legal systems in the contemporary world, this book is written with a view to elucidating law, legal concepts and legal institutions in a manner that takes account of controversies but does not get bogged down in them.
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On normative order -- On institutional order -- Law and the constitutional state -- A problem : rules or habits? -- On persons -- Wrongs and duties -- Legal positions and relations: rights and obligations -- Legal relations and things: property -- Legal powers and validity -- Powers and public law: law and politics -- Constraints on power: fundamental rights -- Criminal law and civil society: law and morality -- Private law and civil society: law and economy -- Positive law and moral autonomy -- On law and justice -- Law and values: reflections on method.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Offering an account of the nature of law and legal systems in the contemporary world, this book is written with a view to elucidating law, legal concepts and legal institutions in a manner that takes account of controversies but does not get bogged down in them.

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