Law after modernity /
Law After Modernity argues that we live in an age 'after Modernity' and that legal theory must take account of this fact. The book presents a dynamic analysis of law, which focusses on the richness and pluralism of law, on its historical embeddedness, its cultural contingencies, as well as...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; Portland, Or. :
Hart Pub.,
2013
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| Series: | Legal theory today
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : beyond the 'degree zero' of law after modernity
- Autonomous law or redundant law? : the elusive nature of legal theory
- Law as system : the missing multidimensionality of law
- Reconfiguring the legal landscape : the sojourn of legal pluralism
- The injustice of law after modernity
- Law, justice and injustice
- Legal justice I : 'maimed justice' and the rule of law
- Legal justice II : reclaiming the rule of law from its 'dark side' : critical legal justice
- The enigma of human rights
- Critical legal justice and beyond : cosmopolitanism
- Beyond cosmopolitanism : the murky world of governance and global 'justice'
- Conclusion : law and justice after modernity