tailieunhanh - Form And Function In A Legal System - A General Study Part 1

Tham khảo tài liệu 'form and function in a legal system - a general study part 1', văn bản luật, bộ máy hành chính phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | FORM AND FUNCTION IN A LEGAL SYSTEM A General Study ROBERT s. SUMMERS Cambridge g 9780521857659 This page intentionally left blank form and function in a legal system - A general study This book addresses three major questions about law and legal systems 1 What are the defining and organizing forms of legal institutions legal rules interpretive 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 is the first book that seeks to offer general answers to these questions and thus give 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. Robert S. Summers is the William G. McRoberts Professor of Research in the Administration of Law at Cornell Law School. He has won international acclaim for his work in contracts commercial law jurisprudence and legal theory. He has authored and coauthored multiple works in these fields for which he has received honorary degrees and other recognition. His treatise on the Uniform Commercial Code coauthored with James White is the most widely cited on the subject by courts and scholars. Professor Summers has served as official advisor both to the Drafting Commission for the Russian Civil Code and to the Drafting Commission for the Egyptian Civil Code. He lectures annually on jurisprudence and legal theory in the United States Britain Scandinavia and .