Table of Contents

Preface Richard Nobles and David Schiff: Introduction 1: The Location of Legal Theory 2: The Operative Closure of the Legal System 3: The Function of Law 4: Coding and Programming 5: Justice: a Formula for Contingency 6: The Evolution of Law 7: The Position of Courts in the Legal System 8: Legal Argumentation 9: Politics and Law 10: Structural Couplings 11: The Self-description of the Legal System 12: Society and its Law Index

About the Author

Prior to his death in 1998, Niklas Luhammn was Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Bielefeld University. This work has been translated from the original German by Prof. Alex Ziegert, and edited by Fatima Kastner, Richard Nobles, David Schiff, and Rosamund Ziegert.