Law as an Autopoietic System

by Gunther Teubner

The present debate in legal theory is dominated by an unfruitful schism. On the one hand, analytical theories are concerned with the positivity of law, running the risk of missing the law's relation to society. On the other hand, sociological approaches analyze all sorts of social interactions of law, but have developed no conceptual tools to do justice to the autonomy of law. The theory of autopoiesis offers law a chance of getting round the falsely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631179763
• ISBN13: 9780631179764
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
• Length: 203 Pages