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MacCormick's "Institutions of Law" is the culmination of a lifetime's work in legal theory by one of the world's most respected legal theorists. Featuring an impressive collection of contributions from well-known legal theorists from around the world, all of whom are familiar with MacCormick's work, this collection provides a cutting edge account of the book's significance.
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LAW AS INSTiTUTiONAl NORMATiVE ORDER The Edinburgh Centre for Law and Society Series Editor: Professor Emilios A. Christodoulidis Titles in the Series Law and Agonistic Politics Edited by Andrew Schaap Public Law and Politics The Scope and Limits of Constitutionalism Edited by Emilios Christodoulidis and Stephen Tierney Transformations of Policing Edited by Alistair Henry and David J. Smith The Universal and the Particular in Legal Reasoning Edited by Zenon Bankowski and James MacLean Law and the Politics of Reconciliation Edited by Scott Veitch Law as Institutional Normative Order Edited by MAKSYMiliAN DEl MAR University of Edinburgh, UK and University of Lausanne, Switzerland ZENON BANKOWSKi University of Edinburgh, UK © Maksymilian Del Mar and Zenon Bankowski 2009 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Maksymilian Del Mar and Zenon Bankowski have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Ashgate Publishing Company Wey Court East Suite 420 Union Road 101 Cherry Street Farnham Burlington Surrey, GU9 7PT VT 05401-4405 England USA www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Law as institutional normative order. --