Law, Modernity, Postmodernity: Legal Change in the Contracting State (Routledge Revivals) - Hardcover

Edgeworth, Brendan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 113874199X ISBN 13: 9781138741997

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

This title was first published in 2003. This book examines the interrelationship between the unravelling of the post-war welfare state and legal change. By reference to theorists of postmodernity such as Zygmunt Bauman, Scott Lash and John Urry, and David Harvey, the principal argument is that contemporary law and legal institutions can be best understood as having changed in ways that mirror the recent transformation of the interventionist welfare state and its Fordist, Keynesian economic infrastructure. The key changes identified in the legal field include:- the shift toward marketized regulatory structures as reflected in privatization and deregulation, the attenuation of welfare rights, the privatization of justice, legal polycentricity, the reconfiguration of the welfare state’s social citizenship and the globalization of law. Empirical evidence from a number of jurisdictions is adduced to indicate the general direction of change.

About this title

About the Author:

Brendan Edgeworth is a senior lecturer in the School of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, where he teaches property law, equity and housing law.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 113874199X
• ISBN 13: 9781138741997
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 314