Form and Function in a Legal System (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521857659)

This book addresses three major questions about law and legal systems: (1) What are the defining and organizing forms of legal institutions, legal rules, interpretive methodologies, and other legal phenomena? (2) How does frontal and systematic focus on these forms advance understanding of such phenomena? (3) What credit should the functions of forms have when such phenomena serve policy and related purposes, rule of law values, and fundamental political values such as democracy, liberty, and justice? The answers not only provide articulate conversancy with the subject but also reveal insights into the nature of law itself, as well as allied subjects.

Author: Robert S. Summers
ISBN-10: 0521857651
ISBN-13: 9780521857659
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/14/2005
Pages: 422
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.62lbs
Size: 9.42h x 8.24w x 0.96d