MacCormick, Neil. <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780191714832 9780191566318 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Legal positivism.<br/>Jurisprudence.<br/>Law.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>K331  / .I578 2007