Preface -- Introduction to Autopoietic Law -- The Unity of the Legal System -- The Law of Law -- On the Supposed Closure of Normative Systems -- Between Order and Disorder: The Game of Law -- Biological Metaphors in Legal Thought -- The Communicative Autonomy of the Legal System -- The Autonomy of Law: Two Visions Compared -- Changing Paradigms in the Sociology of Law -- Evolution of Autopoietic Law -- Perspectives on a Post-Modern Theory of Law: A Critique of Niklas Luhmann, �The Unity of the Legal System� -- Accounting for Law -- The Fact of Law
Closure and Openness: On Reality in the World of LawTalking About Autopoiesis � Order from Noise? -- Authors� Biographical Sketches -- Name Index -- Subject Index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes
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