TY  - BOOK
AU  - Somek,Alexander
TI  - Knowing what the law is: legal theory in a new key 
SN  - 9781509951321
AV  - K230.S649 S65 2021eb
U1  - 340.1 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London, England
PB  - Zed Books
KW  - Law
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Jurisprudence & philosophy of law
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Legal knowledge -- Mild and wild formalism -- American legal realism -- Modern legal positivism -- The demise of modern legal positivism -- Objective spirit -- Rupture -- The legal relation; Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers; Also published in print
N2  - "This book provides a selective and somewhat cheeky account of prominent positions in legal theory, such as American legal realism, modern legal positivism, sociological systems theory, institutionalism and critical legal studies. It presents a relational approach to law and a new perspective on legal sources. The book explores topics of legal theory in a playful manner. It is written and composed in a way that refutes the widespread prejudice that legal theory is a dreary subject, with a cast of characters that occasionally interact in order to illustrate the claims of the book. Legal experts claim to know what the law is. Legal theory-or jurisprudence-explores whether such claims are warranted. The discipline first emerged at the turn of the 20th century, when the self-confidence of both legal scholarship and judicial craftsmanship became severely shattered, but the crisis continues to this day"
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509951321?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
ER  -