Even in our most casual encounters with strangers -- when we are
looking at each other, talking, or standing in line -- legal
systems with elaborate codes, authorized exceptions, and procedures
for sanctioning deviance operate with a remarkable degree of
success. In this pathbreaking book, Michael Reisman describes how
law is an integral and indispensable part of every social
interaction. The private sphere or civic order that the liberal
state is committed to preserving and in which it tries to refrain
from legislating, says Reisman, is not a legal vacuum but the zone
of microlaw -- some of it just, some unsatisfactory, and some
tyrannical.
Interweaving numerous real-life examples with a detailed review
of the scientific literature of many disciplines, Reisman shows the
extent to which microlegal systems function in our own lives. More
important, he draws on the criteria of ethics and legal philosophy
to demonstrate that, paradoxically, efforts to improve microlaw may
threaten the very autonomy of the private sphere that central is to
the liberal state.
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