Overview
- First book that does not only identify law's limits, but also maps strategies to successfully deal with them
- Instead of only one area of law, a wide range of areas is covered
- Not only "edgy" topics but also experiences in daily legal practice are analysed
- Offers a comprehensive theoretical framework
- Perspectives from the inside instead of an external account of law's limits
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Many legal experts no longer share an unbounded trust in the potential of law to govern society efficiently and responsibly. They often experience the 'limits of the law', as they are confronted with striking inadequacies in their legal toolbox, with inner inconsistencies of the law, with problems of enforcement and obedience, and with undesired side-effects, and so on.
The contributors to this book engage in the challenging task of making sense of this experience. Against the background of broader cultural transformations (such as globalisation, new technologies, individualism and cultural diversity), they revisit a wide range of areas of the law and map different types of limits in relation to some basic functions and characteristics of the law. Additionally, they offer a set of strategies to manage justifiably law's limits, such as dedramatising law's limits, conceptual refinement ('constructivism'), striking the right balance between different functions of the law, seeking for complementarity between law and other social practices.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Facing the Limits of the Law
Editors: Bert Keirsbilck, Wouter Devroe, Erik Claes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79856-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-79855-2Published: 24 February 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09858-1Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-79856-9Published: 21 April 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 533
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Fundamentals of Law, Philosophy of Law