Properties of Law: Modern Law and After (Law in Context)

Properties of Law is a legal-theoretical analysis about modern state law; about sociality, normativity and plurality as its properties, and what will come after modern state law. The main objective of this study is to offer a legal theoretical recapitulation of modern state law that avoids the fallacies of Legal Positivism. This calls for a relationist approach where law's sociality is related to normativity, and normativity to sociality. Avoiding Legal Positivism's fallacies also includes refraining from extrapolating from modern state law to law in general; replacing Legal Positivism's conceptual universalism with sensitivity to the varieties of law, and acknowledging that law existed before modern state law, that it will exist after modern state law, and that other law exists alongside modern state law. The book concludes with a discussion of the impact of digitalization on law. Kathy et Arthur prennent l'avion pour rejoindre leur père, Léopold, à Bornéo quand la tempête se lève : leur petit avion se crash en plein milieu de la jungle, sous les yeux d'un terrible prédateur, Kroko, qui ne fera qu'une bouchée du pilote, parti chercher des secours. Les enfants sont livrés à eux- mêmes, sur une plateforme qui surplombe le marais. Leur père, averti de l'accident, décide de partir à leur recherche, mais tout seul la mission est impossible. Il doit demander de l'aide à quelqu'un qui connaît l'île parfaitement : Daddy Lian. La tâche n'est pas aisée car Daddy Lian, de la tribu des Dayaks, déteste Léopold, qui travaille pour Global Corp : une société qui produit de l'huile de palme et qui entreprend une vague de déforestation, privant les tribus dayaks de leur territoire "Since 1970, the Law in Context series has been at the forefront of a movement to broaden the study of law. The series is a vehicle for the publication of innovative monographs and texts that treat law and legal phenomena critically in their cultural, social, political, technological, environmental and economic contexts. A contextual approach involves treating legal subjects broadly, using materials from other humanities and social sciences, and from any other discipline that helps to explain the operation in practice of the particular legal field or legal phenomena under investigation"-- Provided by publisher Kathy et Arthur prennent l'avion pour rejoindre leur père, Lépopold, à Bornéo. La tempête se lève et le petit avion s'écrase en plein milieu de la jungle. Un terrible prédateur dévore le pilote, parti cherche du secours. Les enfants sont livrés à eux-mêmes, sur une plate-forme qui surplombe le marais. Leur père, averti de l'accident, décide de partir à leur recherche Arthur and Kathy go to join their father, Leopold, in Borneo. Their plane crashes in the jungle. The Dayak people, and the balance of nature, are at risk because of the company for which Leopold works. Despite this, a Dayak, Daddy Lian, goes in search of her children. But watch out, watch the crocodile The book is a study of legal theory, written in a style which makes it accessible to both academics and the general reader. The book offers a view of modern law alternative to prevalent legal positivism, dominated by the towering figures of Hans Kelsen and H. L. A. Hart.