Institutions of Law

Institutions of Law presents the definitive statement of Sir Neil MacCormick's well-known 'institutional' theory of law, defining law as 'institutional normative order' and explaining each of these three terms in depth. It attempts to fulfil the need for a twenty-first century introduction to legal theory marking a fresh start such as was achieved in the last century by H. L. A. Hart's The Concept of Law.

(Oxford)

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Cristobal Orrego, University of the Andes, Chile, Jurisprudence MacCormick's general theory of law finds his most detailed expression in Institutions of Law. This book...is an elucidation of the concept of law as a kind of institutional normative order realised prominently...in the modern state.

(Oxford)

Preface; Acknowledgements; PART I: NORM, INSTITUTION AND ORDER; 1. On Normative Order; 2. On Institutional Order; 3. Law and the Constitutional State; 4. A Problem: Rules or Habits?; PART II: LEGAL POSITIONS AND RELATIONS; 5. On Persons; 6. Wrongs and Duties; 7. Rights and Obligations; 8. Legal Relations and Things: Property; 9. Legal Powers and Validity; PART III: LAW STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY; 10. Powers and Public Law: Law and Politics; 11. Constraints on Power: Fundamental Rights; 12. Criminal Law and Civil Society: Law and Morality; 13. Private Law and Civil Society: Law and Economy; PART IV: LAW, VALUE AND METHOD; 14. Positive Law and Moral Autonomy; 15. On Law and Justice; 16. Laws and Values: Reflections on Method

(Oxford)