Institutions of law : an essay in legal theory /
MacCormick, Neil.
Institutions of law : an essay in legal theory / Essay in legal theory Neil MacCormick. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2007. - 1 online resource (xvi, 317 pages) - Law, state, and practical reason .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
9780191714832 9780191566318
Legal positivism.
Jurisprudence.
Law.
Electronic Books.
K331 / .I578 2007
Institutions of law : an essay in legal theory / Essay in legal theory Neil MacCormick. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2007. - 1 online resource (xvi, 317 pages) - Law, state, and practical reason .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
9780191714832 9780191566318
Legal positivism.
Jurisprudence.
Law.
Electronic Books.
K331 / .I578 2007