The Making of Legal Authority: Non-Legislative Codifications in Historical and Comparative Perspective - Couverture rigide

Jansen, Nils

 
9780199588763: The Making of Legal Authority: Non-Legislative Codifications in Historical and Comparative Perspective
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0199588767 ISBN 13 : 9780199588763
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Accounts of the nature of legal authority typically focus on the authority of officially sanctioned rules issued by legally recognised bodies - legislatures, courts and regulators - that fit comfortably within traditional state-centred concepts of law. Such accounts neglect the more complex processes involved in acquiring legal authority.

Throughout the history of modern legal systems texts have come to acquire authority for legal officials without being issued by a legislature or a court. From Justinian's Institutes and Blackstone's Commentaries to modern examples such as the American Law Institute's Restatements and the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts academic codifications have come to be seen as legally authoritative, and their norms applied as such in courts and other contexts.

How have such texts acquired legal authority? Does their authority undermine the orthodox accounts of the nature of legal systems? Drawing on examples from Roman law to the present day, this book offers the first comparative analysis of non-legislative codifications. It offers a provocative contribution to the debates surrounding the harmonisation of European private law, and the growth of international law.

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À propos de l?auteur

Professor Dr Nils Jansen currently serves of the Law Faculty at the University of Munster, Germany. He holds the Chair for Roman Law, Legal History, German and European Private Law, and is a Principal Investigator in the Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics in the Cultures of Pre-Modernity and Modernity. He is the author of several books in German, and co-edited Beyond the State. Rethinking Private Law with Ralf Michaels.


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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199588767
ISBN 13 
9780199588763
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
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