Robert S. Summers

Form and Function in a Legal System

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on legal structures as they developed in Western societies, Form and Function in a Legal System looks at four paradigms of the forms of a varied selection of functional legal units: legislatures and courts, statutory rules, contracts and property, legal methodologies for interpreting law, and enforcive devices such as sanctions and remedies. In contrast to the rules-based analysis made prominent by legal thinkers such as H. L. A. Hart and Hans Kelsen, the form-oriented analysis provides a new and intellectually stimulating understanding on how law can be conceptually approached.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 834g
• ISBN-13: 9780521857659
• ISBN-10: 0521857651
• Artikelnr.: 21681970

Autorenporträt

Robert S. Summers is the William G. McRoberts Research Professor in the Administration of Law at Cornell Law School. He has won international acclaim for his work in contracts and commercial law and authored and coauthored multiple works on contracts, commercial law, jurisprudence and legal theory. His treatise on the Uniform Commercial Code, coauthored with James White, is the most widely cited on the subject. Professor Summers has served as official advisor both to the Drafting Commission for Russian Civil Code and to the Drafting Commission for Egyptian Civil Code. He lectures annually on jurisprudence and legal theory in Britain, Scandinavia, and Europe.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction, Basic Concepts, Definitions, and General Approach: 1. Introduction
2. Basic concepts and definitions
3. General approach
Part II. The Forms of Discrete Legal Phenomena: 4. Forms of institutions - legislative
5. Forms of precepts - rules
6. Form and content within a rule - continued
7. Forms of nonpreceptual law - contracts and related property interests
8. Forms of legal methodologies - statutory interpretation
9. Forms of sanctions and remedies
Part III. The Form of a Legal System and its Operation: 10. The basic form of a legal system as a whole
11. Cumulative and synergistic effects of legal forms - a schematic practical application.