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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      July 2009
      November 2005
      ISBN:
      9780511511066
      9780521857659
      9780521123884
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511511066
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.79kg, 422 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.62kg, 424 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Law: General Interest, Law, Jurisprudence
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    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 fields. For policy-makers alone this book is a must.'

    Source: The Cambridge Law Journal

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