| Description |
xxiii, 253 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Theoretical perspectives. Sociological analysis -- Functional differentiation -- Social systems -- Law in society. The law's system -- Law's legitimacy -- Law's transformations. Law's differentiation -- The development of the modes of lawmaking -- The evolution of the legal system -- Forms of law over time. The segmented normative order -- Roman law -- The beginning of law's territoriality -- The learned laws -- The hierarchical differentiation of law -- The self-referentiality of the law -- The administration of justice in the western legal tradition. The judicial function in the pre-modern era -- The judicial function in the medieval state -- The differentiation of the administration of justice in the modern era -- The judicial function between law and government. Law, politics and separation of powers -- The bureaucratization of the judiciary -- The place of the judicial system -- The judicial procedures of differentiated law -- Formal justice under tension -- Judicial independence -- Conclusion |
| Notes |
Translation and adaptation of: L'indépendance judiciaire |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Judicial independence.
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Judicial power.
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Law -- Philosophy.
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Justice, Administration of.
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Judicial independence -- Canada.
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| LC no. |
2013464855 |
| ISBN |
9780433474470 (paperback) |
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0433474475 (paperback) |
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