Form and Function in a Legal System: A General Study

by Robert S. Summers

Book Overview

This book addresses three major questions about law and legal systems: (1) What are the defining and organising forms of legal institutions, legal rules, interpretative methodologies, and other legal phenomena? (2) How does frontal and systematic focus on these forms advance understanding of such phenomena? (3) What credit should the functions of forms have when such phenomena serve policy and related purposes, rule of law values, and fundamental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521123887
• ISBN13: 9780521123884
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"