Alexander Somek

Knowing What the Law Is (eBook, PDF)

Legal Theory in a New Key

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a selective and somewhat cheeky account of prominent positions in legal theory, such as American legal realism, modern legal positivism, sociological systems theory, institutionalism and critical legal studies. It presents a relational approach to law and a new perspective on legal sources.

The book explores topics of legal theory in a playful manner. It is written and composed in a way that refutes the widespread prejudice that legal theory is a dreary subject, with a cast of characters that occasionally interact in order to illustrate the claims of the book.

Legal experts claim to know what the law is. Legal theory-or jurisprudence-explores whether such claims are warranted. The discipline first emerged at the turn of the 20th century, when the self-confidence of both legal scholarship and judicial craftsmanship became severely shattered, but the crisis continues to this day.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781509951314
• Artikelnr.: 62368376

Autorenporträt

Alexander Somek is Professor of Legal Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria.