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

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Prior to his death in 1998, Niklas Luhammn was Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Bielefeld University.

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