A sociological theory of law

• Main Author: Luhmann, Niklas, 1927-1998.
• Other Authors: Albrow, Martin., King-Utz, Elizabeth.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English; German
• Published: Abingdon, Oxon [U.K.] : Routledge, 2014.
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Subjects: Sociological jurisprudence.; Electronic books.
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"Niklas Luhmann is recognised as a major social theorist, and his treatise on the sociology of law is a classic text. For Luhmann, law provides the framework of the state, lawyers are the main human resourced for the state, and legal theory provides the most suitable base from which to theorize...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Classical beginnings of the sociology of law
• 2. The development of law : foundation of a sociological theory
• 3. Law as structure of society
• 4. Positive law
• 5. Social change through positive law.