The Legal Relation - Legal Theory after Legal Positivism (Hardcover)

What is law? The usual answer is that the law is a system of norms. But this answer gives us at best half of the story. The law is a way of relating to one another. We do not do this as lovers or friends and not as people who are interested in obtaining guidance from moral insight. In a legal context, we are cast as 'character masks' (Marx), for example, as 'buyer' and 'seller' or 'landlord' and 'tenant'. We expect to have our claims respected simply because the law has given us rights. We do not want to give any other reason for our behavior than the fact that we have a legal right. Backing rights up with coercive threats indicates that we are willing to accept legal obligations unwillingly. This book offers a conceptual reconstruction of the legal relation on the basis of a critique of legal positivism.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law
Release date:	October 2017
Authors:	Alexander Somek
Dimensions:	236 x 157 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	220
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-19801-2
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > General Promotions
LSN:	1-107-19801-1
Barcode:	9781107198012

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!