The tapestry of the law : Scotland, legal culture, and legal theory
The Tapestry of the Law brings together a study of a particular legal system - that of Scotland - with a number of (mainly contemporary) theories of or about law. Rather than endorsing any one legal theory, it ends with some tentative conclusions about legal theory itself. It is written for all those interested in the law, whether in the academic context, as practitioners of law or politics, or from the lay point of view, but primarily with students in mind. At this level, Chapters II to VI provide an information base for those embarking on courses in comparative law or politics, whilst the whole, and especially the later chapters, will offer most to those already have some grounding in the issues with which jurisprudence is concerned
Print Book, English, ©1997
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, ©1997
Law and philosophy library, v. 26
xiv, 256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
9780792343103, 0792343107
36017135
1. Some puzzles about the nature of law
2. Connecting law and society
3. A constitutional culture
4. The style of Scots Law
5. The style of Scots law continued
6. And so to ideology
7. Matters of interpretation
8. Law in whose terms?
9. And what kind of system?
10. The language of the law
11. Some different critiques
12. The role of reason
13. Weaving the threads