Toward a New Legal Common Sense: Law, Globalization, and Emancipation (Law in Context)

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

ISBN 10: 0406949972 / ISBN 13: 9780406949974

Published by Butterworths 01/09/2002, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Toward a New Legal Common Sense: Law, Globalization, and Emancipation (Law in Context)
• Publisher: Butterworths 01/09/2002
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0406949972
• ISBN 13: 9780406949974
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

There are those who believe that modern society's reliance upon law, politics and science to both regulate and emancipate society has reached a crisis point and can no longer provide answers to current social problems. Toward a New Legal Common Sense engages in a series of sociological analyses of law in order to illustrate the need for a profound theoretical reconstruction of the notion of legality based on locality, nationality and globality. In this way the author shows how developments including suprastate organisations such as the European Union and international human rights law can be given their proper place in the sociology of law, and suggests a new set of social structures that might sustain the emancipatory elements that have disappeared from modern society. This new edition, of a title originally published by Routledge (New York), is part of the acclaimed Law in Context Series, whose aim is to develop broad interdisciplinary perspectives on law. Toward a New Legal Common Sense is written for students taking law and globalisation courses, and political science, philosophy and sociology students doing optional subjects.

Book Description

Engaging in sociological analyses of law, this text shows the need for a reconstruction of the idea of legality based on locality, nationality and globality. It shows how suprastate organizations such as the EU and international human rights law can be given a proper place in the sociology of law and suggests a new set of social structures that might sustain the emancipatory elements that have disappeared from modern society.