Law as an Autopoietic System

TEUBNER, Gunther

Law as an Autopoietic System

dc.contributor.author	TEUBNER, Gunther
dc.date.accessioned	2012-09-21T07:28:56Z
dc.date.available	2012-09-21T07:28:56Z
dc.date.issued	1993
dc.description	Digitised version produced by the EUI Library and made available online in Open Access in 2021 for research or private study purposes.	en
dc.description.abstract	The present debate in legal theory is dominated by an unfruitful schism. On the one hand, analytical theories are concerned with the positivity of law, running the risk of missing the law's relation to society. On the other hand, sociological approaches analyze all sorts of social interactions of law, but have developed no conceptual tools to do justice to the autonomy of law. The theory of autopoiesis offers law a chance of getting round the falsely posed alternative between an autonomous rule system or a socially conditioned decision-making process. It is a theory of law that sees the law's autonomy in the self-reproduction of a communication network and understands its relation to society as interference with other autonomous communication networks. Building on the ideas of Humberto Maturana, Heinz von Foerster and Niklas Luhmann, Gunther Teubner uses the concepts of self-organization and autopoiesis to develop a concept of law as a hypercyclically closed social system. This book will stand as a landmark in legal theory and become a standard point of departure in the sociology of law.	en
dc.description.tableofcontents	--'And God laughed...' --The new self-referentiality --Law - A hypercycle --Blind legal evolution --Social regulation through reflexive law --Intersystemic law of conflict --Unitas multiplex: corporate governance as an example --Bibliography --Index	en
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dc.identifier.citation	Oxford/Cambridge, Blackwell Publishing, 1993, European University Institute Series	en
dc.identifier.isbn	9780631179764
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1814/23894
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Blackwell Publishing	en
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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dc.title	Law as an Autopoietic System	en
dc.type	Book	en
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