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020 _a9781472563507
040 _aMAIN
082 0 4 _a340
245 0 0 _aParadoxes and inconsistencies in the law
_h[electronic resource] /
_cedited by Oren Perez and Gunther Teubner.
300 _a1 online resource (x, 322 pages)
500 _aBloomsbury Pub Ebook
500 _aIncludes index.
520 _a"Is law paradoxical? This book seeks to unravel the riddle of legal paradoxes. It focuses on two main questions: the nature of legal paradoxes, and their social ramifications. In exploring the structure of legal paradoxes, the book focuses both on generic paradoxes, such as those associated with the self-referential character of legal validity and the endemic incoherence of legal discourse, and on paradoxes that permeate more restricted fields of law, such as contract law, euthanasia, and human rights (the prohibition of torture). The discussion of the social effects of legal paradoxes focuses on the role of paradoxes as drivers of legal change, and explores the institutional mechanisms that ensure the stability of the law, in spite of its paradoxical makeup. The essays in the book discuss these questions from various perspectives, invoking insights from philosophy, systems theory, deconstruction and economics."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
650 0 _aLaw.
700 1 _aPerez, Oren,
700 1 _aTeubner, Gunther,
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.5040/9781472563507?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
942 _cEBK
999 _c17438
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