Institutions of law
Subtitle: an essay in legal theory
By: Neil MacCormick.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780198267911
Subjects: Legal positivism.
Description: Offering an account of the nature of law and legal systems in the contemporary world, this book is written with a view to elucidating law, legal concepts and legal institutions in a manner that takes account of controversies but does not get bogged down in them.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On normative order; title: On institutional order; title: Law and the constitutional state; title: A problem : rules or habits?; title: On persons; title: Wrongs and duties; title: Legal positions and relations : rights and obligations; title: Legal relations and things : property; title: Legal powers and validity; title: Powers and public law : law and politics; title: Constraints on power : fundamental rights; title: Criminal law and civil society : law and morality; title: Private law and civil society : law and economy; title: Positive law and moral autonomy; title: On law and justice; title: Law and values : reflections on method.