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_cUSD 99.00 Retail Price (Publisher)
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100 1 _aCotterrell, Roger
_eAuthor
210 1 0 _aLaw's Community
245 1 0 _aLaw's Community
_h[electronic resource]:
_bLegal Theory in Sociological Perspective
260 _aNew York :
_bOxford University Press, Incorporated
_cJune 1997
440 0 _aOxford Socio-Legal Studies
506 _aLicense restrictions may limit access.
520 8 _aAnnotation
_bLaw's Community offers a distinctive analysis of law, identifying political and moral problems that are fundamental to contemporary legal theory. It portrays contemporary law as institutionalized doctrine, emphasizing ways in which legal modes of thought influence wider currents ofunderstanding and belief in contemporary Western societies. Exploring relationships between law and sociology as contrasting and competing fields of knowledge, Law's Community develops ideas from social theory to identify key problems for legal development; in particular, those of restoring moralauthority to law and of elaborating a concept of community that can guide legal regulation. The analysis leads to radical conclusions: among them, that law's functions need reconsideration at the most general level, that a unitary state legal system as portrayed in traditional kinds of legal theorymay no longer be adequate in complex contemporary societies, and that law should be reconceptualized as a diverse but co-ordinated plurality of systems, sites, and forms of regulation.
521 _aCollege Audience
_bOxford University Press, Incorporated
773 0 _tOxford Scholarship Online Law
856 4 0 _uhttp://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio10297375
_zFull text available from Oxford Scholarship Online Law
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