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The Unsteady State Keith Culver (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)

The Unsteady State By Keith Culver (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)

The Unsteady State by Keith Culver (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)


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This title addresses students and academics in legal philosophy, socio-legal studies, political science, and related disciplines. The book offers a general account of the preconditions and continuity of legal order, with a particular focus on law's relations to the environment, security, and technology.

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The Unsteady State: General Jurisprudence for Dynamic Social Phenomena by Keith Culver (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)

Analytical jurisprudence often proceeds with two key assumptions: that all law is either contained in or traceable back to an authorizing law-state, and that states are stable and in full control of the borders of their legal systems. What would a general theory of law be like and do if these long-standing presumptions were loosened? The Unsteady State aims to assess the possibilities by enacting a relational approach to explanation of law, exploring law's relations to the environment, security, and technology. The account provided here offers a rich and renewed perspective on the preconditions and continuity of legal order in systemic and non-systemic forms, and further supports the view that the state remains prominent yet is now less dominant in the normative lives of norm-subjects and as an object of legal theory.

About Keith Culver (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)

Keith Culver is Professor and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Management, University of British Columbia, Canada. His research focuses on the intersection of sustainability, jurisprudence and knowledge mobilization for innovation. Michael Giudice is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at York University, Toronto. His research focuses on the philosophy of law and associated areas in political and moral philosophy.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I. Preparing Analytical Theory for New Challenges: 1. Pulling off the mask of law: a renewed research agenda for analytical legal theory; 2. Making old questions new: legality, legal system, and state; 3. Legal systems and presumptions of unity and validity; 4. The elements of legal order; Part II. Law, Environment, Security, and Technology: 5. Globalization, the predictions of legality, and law's relation to environment; 6. Legality, security, and Leviathan's ghost; 7. Information communication technologies and legal theory; 8. Beyond the unsteady state.

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NLS9781316500842
9781316500842
1316500845
The Unsteady State: General Jurisprudence for Dynamic Social Phenomena by Keith Culver (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2018-05-10
256
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