Properties of Law by Kaarlo Tuori

Properties of Law by Kaarlo Tuori

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The book is a study of legal theory, written in a style which makes it accessible to both academics and the general reader. The book offers a view of modern law alternative to prevalent legal positivism, dominated by the towering figures of Hans Kelsen and H. L. A. Hart.

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Properties of Law by Kaarlo Tuori

Properties of Law is a legal-theoretical analysis about modern state law; about sociality, normativity and plurality as its properties, and what will come after modern state law. The main objective of this study is to offer a legal theoretical recapitulation of modern state law that avoids the fallacies of Legal Positivism. This calls for a relationist approach where law's sociality is related to normativity, and normativity to sociality. Avoiding Legal Positivism's fallacies also includes refraining from extrapolating from modern state law to law in general; replacing Legal Positivism's conceptual universalism with sensitivity to the varieties of law, and acknowledging that law existed before modern state law, that it will exist after modern state law, and that other law exists alongside modern state law. The book concludes with a discussion of the impact of digitalization on law.
Kaarlo Tuori is Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, Finland. He has led a Centre of Excellence in European Law and Polity, financed by Academy of Finland, 2008–2013, and has served as a counsellor to the Constitutional Law Committee of Parliament and as a Member of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe (1998–).
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ISBN 13 9781108948807
ISBN 10 1108948804
Title Properties of Law
Author Kaarlo Tuori
Series Law In Context
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 2023-04-06
Number of pages 314
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