Book contents
- Properties of Law
- Law in Context
- Properties of Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Prologue
- Part I Sociality
- 1 Return of the Repressed
- 2 Social Practices
- 3 Sociolegal Practices
- 4 Specialised Legal Practices
- 5 Legal Discourse
- Part II Normativity
- Part III Plurality
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
- Other Books in the Series (continued from page iv)
1 - Return of the Repressed
from Part I - Sociality
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 September 2021
- Properties of Law
- Law in Context
- Properties of Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Prologue
- Part I Sociality
- 1 Return of the Repressed
- 2 Social Practices
- 3 Sociolegal Practices
- 4 Specialised Legal Practices
- 5 Legal Discourse
- Part II Normativity
- Part III Plurality
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
- Other Books in the Series (continued from page iv)
Summary
Law is not only about legal norms, about the normative legal order. It is also about first-order sociolegal practices where legal norms are realised and specialised legal practices where norms are (re)produced and their realisation is guaranteed. Characteristic of modern state law is differentiation. An important aspect of differentiation is abstraction of legal norms from sociolegal practices. In turn, differentiation of norms and practices has enabled the emergence of specialised legal practices, including legal scholarship, with their focus on law as a normative legal order. Yet differentiation does not mean isolation. The normativity of law cannot be accounted for without heeding law’s sociality, nor can sociality be accounted for without heeding normativity. A relational approach is needed: normativity must be related to sociality and vice versa.
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- Properties of LawModern Law and After, pp. 49 - 62Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021