Law and Justice in Community

by Garrett Barden, Tim Murphy, Timothy Murphy

This book proposes a general theory of the nature of law based on the assertion that law exists in all human communities before it is ever posited or in any other sense formally expressed. According to the theory, the nature of law is not captured in what is variously called 'positive law',
'conventional law', 'state law' or 'human law'. The theory holds that a living law is an omnipresent feature of human community. By 'living law' is meant primarily...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199592683
• ISBN13: 9780199592685
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"