Form and Function in a Legal System by Robert S Summers

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Form and Function in a Legal System by Robert S Summers

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Summary

Focusing on legal structures as they developed in Western societies, this book looks at four paradigms of the forms of a varied selection of functional legal units: legislatures and courts, statutory rules, contracts and property, legal methodologies for interpreting law, and enforcive devices such as sanctions and remedies.

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Form and Function in a Legal System by Robert S Summers

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 political values such as democracy, liberty, and justice? This book seeks to offer general answers to these questions and thus gives form in the law its due. The answers not only provide articulate conversancy with the subject but also reveal insights into the nature of law itself, the oldest and foremost problem in legal theory and allied subjects.

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Review of the hardback: 'The authors rich and multi-layered pictures of various first-level legal phenomena will be of immense important to all theorists working within those specific fieldsFor policy-makers alone this book is a must.' The Cambridge Law Journal
Robert S. Summers is the William G. McRoberts Research Professor in the Administration of Law at Cornell Law School. He has won international acclaim for his work in contracts and commercial law and authored and coauthored multiple works on contracts, commercial law, jurisprudence and legal theory. His treatise on the Uniform Commercial Code, coauthored with James White, is the most widely cited on the subject. Professor Summers has served as official advisor both to the Drafting Commission for Russian Civil Code and to the Drafting Commission for Egyptian Civil Code. He lectures annually on jurisprudence and legal theory in Britain, Scandinavia, and Europe.
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ISBN 13 9780521857659
ISBN 10 0521857651
Title Form and Function in a Legal System
Author Robert S Summers
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 2005-11-14
Number of pages 422
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