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Author: Martin Chanock
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780325000169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the historical formation during the colonial period of that part of African law know as customary law.
Author: Iredell Jenkins
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-07-14
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 1400854652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfessor Jenkins develops a systematic theory of the origins, the ends, and the functions of law. He then applies this theory to the problems that law encounters and the conditions that it must satisfy if it is to be an effective force in society. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Martin Chanock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-03-05
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9780521791564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMartin Chanock's illuminating and definitive perspective on that development examines all areas of the law including criminal law and criminology; the Roman-Dutch law; the State's African law; and land, labour and 'rule of law' questions.
Author: Lon Luvois Fuller
Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 326
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edoardo Frezet
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-07-14
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1000406458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection brings together a carefully curated selection of researchers from law, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, history, social ontology and international relations, in order to examine how law and custom interact within specific material and spatial contexts. Normativity develops within these contexts, while also shaping them. This complex relationship exists within all physical places from traditional agrarian spaces to the modern shifting post-industrial workplace. The contributions gathered together in this volume explore numerous examples of such spaces from different disciplinary perspectives to interrogate the dynamic relationship between custom and law, and the material spaces they inhabit. While there are a dynamic series of conclusions regarding this relationship in different material realities, a common theme is pursued throughout: a proper understanding of law and custom stems from their material locatedness within the power dynamics of particular spaces, which, in turn, are reflexively shaped by that same normativity. The book thus generates an account of the locatedness of law and custom, and, indeed, of custom as a source of law. In this way, it provides a series of linked explorations of normative spaces, but, more fundamentally, it also furnishes a cross-disciplinary toolkit of concepts and critical tools for understanding law and custom, and their relationship. As the diversity of the contributors indicates, this book will be of great interest to legal theorists of different traditions, also legal historians and anthropologists, as well as sociologists, historians, geographers and developmental economists.
Author: Marie Seong-Hak Kim
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-08-27
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 110700697X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSets forth the evolution of Korea's law and legal system from the Chosǒn dynasty through the colonial and postcolonial modern periods.
Author: Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1977-07
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0029328802
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Law in Modern Society" is a comparative study of the place of law in societies as well as a criticism of social theory. Under what conditions do different kinds of law emerge? What are the bases of the rule of law ideal that marks advanced liberal, capitalist societies? What can the study of law teach us about social hierarchy and moral vision in these societies, and, indeed, about the specificity of Western civilization? Why do we find it necessary to struggle for the rule of law and impossible to achieve it? What political possibilities are closed or opened by present-day changes in the established styles of legality and legal thought? Unger deals with these questions in a broad range of historical settings. But he also relates them to the central issues of social theory: the method of explanation, the conditions of social order, and the nature of 'modern' society. the book argues that to resolve its own internal dilemmas the science of society must once again become both metaphysical and political.
Author: Terence C. Halliday
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-01-19
Total Pages: 559
ISBN-13: 1107069920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTransnational Legal Orders offers an empirically grounded approach to the emergence of legal orders beyond nation-states that reframes the study of law and society.
Author: Brian D. Lepard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-01-11
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 052119136X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book sets out to articulate a comprehensive theory of customary international law that can effectively resolve the conceptual and practical enigmas surrounding it. It takes a multidisciplinary approach and draws insights from international law, legal theory, political science, and game theory. It is anchored in a sophisticated ethical framework and explores the interrelationships between customary international law and ethics.
Author: Omri Ben-Shahar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-05-17
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0197522831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe live in a world of one-size-fits-all law. People are different, but the laws that govern them are uniform. "Personalized Law"---rules that vary person by person---will change that. Here is a vision of a brave new world, where each person is bound by their own personally-tailored law. "Reasonable person" standards would be replaced by a multitude of personalized commands, each individual with their own "reasonable you" rule. Skilled doctors would be held to higher standards of care, the most vulnerable consumers and employees would receive stronger protections, age restrictions for driving or for the consumption of alcohol would vary according the recklessness risk that each person poses, and borrowers would be entitled to personalized loan disclosures tailored to their unique needs and delivered in a format fitting their mental capacity. The data and algorithms to administer personalize law are at our doorstep, and embryos of this regime are sprouting. Should we welcome this transformation of the law? Does personalized law harbor a utopic promise, or would it produce alienation, demoralization, and discrimination? This book is the first to explore personalized law, offering a vision of law and robotics that delegates to machines those tasks humans are least able to perform well. It inquires how personalized law can be designed to deliver precision and justice and what pitfalls the regime would have to prudently avoid. In this book, Omri Ben-Shahar and Ariel Porat not only present this concept in a clear, easily accessible way, but they offer specific examples of how personalized law may be implemented across a variety of real-life applications.
