IS LAW AN AUTOPOIETIC SOCIAL SUBSYSTEM? (Autopoieticky socialny subsystem pravo?)

• Authors: Barany Eduard
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The concept of law as an autopoietic system is current in contemporary legal theory. It is based on a substantial change in defining law from traditional definitions of law as a normative system to law as a social subsystem. There are no grounds for this redefinition of law and it produces no added value. The theory of law as an autopoietic system is despite its manifest weakness an important inspiration for legal theory, particularly for the research of relations between law and its environment. One reason to reconsider this concept is the idea of circularity in legal systems.

Keywords

EN

AUTOPOIETIC SYSTEM; CIRCULARITY IN LAW; CONCEPTS OF LAW; CONSTITUTIONAL PLURALISM; ENVIRONMENT; SYSTEM OF LAW

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociológia (Sociology)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 111-132
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Barany Eduard

• JUDr. Eduard Barany, DrSc., Ustav statu a prava SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA096711