Legal symbolism
Subtitle: on law, time, and European identity
By: by Jiri Priban.
Series: Applied legal philosophy
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754670735
Subjects: Law -- European Union countries -- Philosophy.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: value: Constitution-making and the symbolic rationality of law : a systemic differentiation of law, politics, and morality; value: The symbolic evolution of political identity from the spirit of the law; value: Law and the symbolization of time : the limits of dealing with the past and future; value: Civil and ethnic traditions and identities : post-communist constitution- making in central Europe; value: Identity, constitution-making, and the enlargement of the European union; value: The symbolic power of European law and search of European politics; value: The retrospectivity of laws and the temporality of justice in post-communist central Europe; value: Moral paradoxes of legal justice : an analysis of restitutive and administrative dealing with the past.