Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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, â€?The Unity of the Legal Systemâ€?
  • Accounting for Law
  • The Fact of Law
  • Closure and Openness: On Reality in the World of LawTalking About Autopoiesis â€? Order from Noise?
  • Authorsâ€? Biographical Sketches
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index