Properties of Law. Modern Law and After

332 Pages·2021·2.712 MB·English

by  Kaarlo Tuori

Properties of Law
PropertiesofLawisalegaltheoreticalanalysis aboutmodernstatelaw;about
sociality,normativity,andpluralityasitsproperties;andwhatwillcomeafter
modernstatelaw.Themainobjectiveofthisstudyistoofferalegaltheoretical
recapitulationofmodernstatelawthatavoidsthefallaciesofLegalPositivism.
This calls for a relationistapproach where law’s sociality isrelatedtonorma-
tivity, and normativity to sociality. Avoiding Legal Positivism’s fallacies also
includes refraining from extrapolating from modern state law to law in
general; replacing Legal Positivism’s conceptual universalism with sensitivity
tothevarietiesoflaw;andacknowledgingthatlawexistedbeforemodernstate
law,thatitwillexistaftermodernstatelaw,andthatotherlawexistsalongside
modern state law. The book concludes with a discussion of the impact of
digitalisation on law.
kaarlo tuori is Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Law, University of
Helsinki, Finland. He has led the Centre of Excellence in European Law and
Polity, financed by Academy of Finland, 2008–2013, and has served as a
counsellor to the Constitutional Law Committee of Parliament and as a
memberof theVenice Commission of the Council of Europe (1998–).
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Law inContext
Serieseditors:
ProfessorKennethArmstrong(UniversityofCambridge)
ProfessorMaksymilianDelMar(QueenMary,UniversityofLondon)
ProfessorSallySheldon(UniversityofKent)
Editorialadvisoryboard:
ProfessorBronwenMorgan(UniversityofNewSouthWales)
EmeritusProfessorWilliamTwining(UniversityCollegeLondon)
Since 1970, the Law in Context series has been at the forefront of a movement to
broaden the study of law. The series is a vehicle for the publication of innovative
monographs and texts that treat law and legal phenomena critically in their cultural,
social, political, technological, environmental and economic contexts. A contextual
approachinvolves treatinglegal subjectsbroadly, using materials from otherhuman-
ities and social sciences, and from any other discipline that helps to explain the
operation in practice of the particular legal field or legal phenomena under investi-
gation. It is intended that this orientation is at once more stimulating and more
revealingthanthebare expositionoflegalrules.The seriesincludes original research
monographs, coursebooks and textbooks that foreground contextual approaches and
methods.Theseriesincludesandwelcomesbooksonthestudyoflawinallitscontexts,
including domestic legal systems, European and international law, transnational and
globallegalprocesses,andcomparativelaw.
BooksintheSeries
Acosta:TheNationalversustheForeignerinSouthAmerica:200YearsofMigrationand
CitizenshipLaw
Ali:ModernChallengestoIslamicLaw
AlyagonDarr:PlausibleCrimeStories:TheLegalHistoryofSexualOffencesinMandate
Palestine
Anderson,Schum&Twining:AnalysisofEvidence,2ndEdition
Ashworth:SentencingandCriminalJustice,6thEdition
Barton&Douglas:LawandParenthood
Baxi,McCrudden&Paliwala:Law’sEthical,GlobalandTheoreticalContexts:Essaysin
HonourofWilliamTwining
Beecher-Monas:EvaluatingScientificEvidence:AnInterdisciplinaryFrameworkfor
IntellectualDueProcess
Bell:FrenchLegalCultures
Bercusson:EuropeanLabourLaw,2ndEdition
Birkinshaw:EuropeanPublicLaw
Birkinshaw:FreedomofInformation:TheLaw,thePracticeandtheIdeal,4thEdition
Blick:ElectrifiedDemocracy
Broderick&Ferri:InternationalandEuropeanDisabilityLawandPolicy:Text,Cases
andMaterials
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Brownsword&Goodwin:LawandtheTechnologiesoftheTwenty-FirstCentury:Text
andMaterials
Cane&Goudkamp:Atiyah’sAccidents,CompensationandtheLaw,9thEdition
Clarke:PrinciplesofPropertyLaw
Clarke&Kohler:PropertyLaw:CommentaryandMaterials
Collins:TheLawofContract,4thEdition
Collins,Ewing&McColgan:LabourLaw,2ndEdition
Cowan:HousingLawandPolicy
Cranston:CommercialLawfromtheNineteenthCentury:LawasBackcloth
Cranston:LegalFoundationsoftheWelfareState
Darian-Smith:LawsandSocietiesinGlobalContexts:ContemporaryApproaches
Dauvergne:MakingPeopleIllegal:WhatGlobalisationMeansforImmigrationandLaw
David:Kinship,LawandPolitics:AnAnatomyofBelonging
Davies:PerspectivesonLabourLaw,2ndEdition
Dembour:WhoBelievesinHumanRights?:ReflectionsontheEuropeanConvention
deSousaSantos:TowardaNewLegalCommonSense:Law,Globalization,and
Emancipation
Diduck:Law’sFamilies
Dupret:PositiveLawfromtheMuslimWorld
Estella:LegalFoundationsofEUEconomicGovernance
Fortin:Children’sRightsandtheDevelopingLaw,3rdEdition
Garnsey:TheJusticeofVisualArt:CreativeState-BuildinginTimesofPolitical
Transition
Garton,Probert&Bean:Moffat’sTrustsLaw:TextandMaterials,7thEdition
Ghai&Woodman:PractisingSelf-Government:AComparativeStudyofAutonomous
Regions
Glover-Thomas:ReconstructingMentalHealthLawandPolicy
Gobert&Punch:RethinkingCorporateCrime
Goldman:GlobalisationandtheWesternLegalTradition:RecurringPatternsofLaw
andAuthority
Haack:EvidenceMatters:Science,Proof,andTruthintheLaw
Harlow&Rawlings:LawandAdministration,4thEdition
Harris:AnIntroductiontoLaw,8thEdition
Harris,Campbell&Halson:RemediesinContractandTort,2ndEdition
Harvey:SeekingAsylumintheUK:ProblemsandProspects
Herring:LawandtheRelationalSelf
Hervey&McHale:EuropeanUnionHealthLaw:ThemesandImplications
Hervey&McHale:HealthLawandtheEuropeanUnion
Holder&Lee:EnvironmentalProtection,LawandPolicy:TextandMaterials,
2ndEdition
Jackson&Summers:TheInternationalisationofCriminalEvidence:Beyondthe
CommonLawandCivilLawTraditions
Kostakopoulou:TheFutureGovernanceofCitizenship
Kreiczer-Levy:DestabilizedProperty:PropertyLawintheSharingEconomy
Kubal:ImmigrationandRefugeeLawinRussia:Socio-LegalPerspectives
(continuedaftertheindex)
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Properties of Law
Modern Law and After
KAARLO TUORI
UniversityofHelsinki
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Properties of Law
PropertiesofLawisalegaltheoreticalanalysis aboutmodernstatelaw;about
sociality,normativity,andpluralityasitsproperties;andwhatwillcomeafter
modernstatelaw.Themainobjectiveofthisstudyistoofferalegaltheoretical
recapitulationofmodernstatelawthatavoidsthefallaciesofLegalPositivism.
This calls for a relationistapproach where law’s sociality isrelatedtonorma-
tivity, and normativity to sociality. Avoiding Legal Positivism’s fallacies also
includes refraining from extrapolating from modern state law to law in
general; replacing Legal Positivism’s conceptual universalism with sensitivity
tothevarietiesoflaw;andacknowledgingthatlawexistedbeforemodernstate
law,thatitwillexistaftermodernstatelaw,andthatotherlawexistsalongside
modern state law. The book concludes with a discussion of the impact of
digitalisation on law.
kaarlo tuori is Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Law, University of
Helsinki, Finland. He has led the Centre of Excellence in European Law and
Polity, financed by Academy of Finland, 2008–2013, and has served as a
counsellor to the Constitutional Law Committee of Parliament and as a
memberof theVenice Commission of the Council of Europe (1998–).
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Law inContext
Serieseditors:
ProfessorKennethArmstrong(UniversityofCambridge)
ProfessorMaksymilianDelMar(QueenMary,UniversityofLondon)
ProfessorSallySheldon(UniversityofKent)
Editorialadvisoryboard:
ProfessorBronwenMorgan(UniversityofNewSouthWales)
EmeritusProfessorWilliamTwining(UniversityCollegeLondon)
Since 1970, the Law in Context series has been at the forefront of a movement to
broaden the study of law. The series is a vehicle for the publication of innovative
monographs and texts that treat law and legal phenomena critically in their cultural,
social, political, technological, environmental and economic contexts. A contextual
approachinvolves treatinglegal subjectsbroadly, using materials from otherhuman-
ities and social sciences, and from any other discipline that helps to explain the
operation in practice of the particular legal field or legal phenomena under investi-
gation. It is intended that this orientation is at once more stimulating and more
revealingthanthebare expositionoflegalrules.The seriesincludes original research
monographs, coursebooks and textbooks that foreground contextual approaches and
methods.Theseriesincludesandwelcomesbooksonthestudyoflawinallitscontexts,
including domestic legal systems, European and international law, transnational and
globallegalprocesses,andcomparativelaw.
BooksintheSeries
Acosta:TheNationalversustheForeignerinSouthAmerica:200YearsofMigrationand
CitizenshipLaw
Ali:ModernChallengestoIslamicLaw
AlyagonDarr:PlausibleCrimeStories:TheLegalHistoryofSexualOffencesinMandate
Palestine
Anderson,Schum&Twining:AnalysisofEvidence,2ndEdition
Ashworth:SentencingandCriminalJustice,6thEdition
Barton&Douglas:LawandParenthood
Baxi,McCrudden&Paliwala:Law’sEthical,GlobalandTheoreticalContexts:Essaysin
HonourofWilliamTwining
Beecher-Monas:EvaluatingScientificEvidence:AnInterdisciplinaryFrameworkfor
IntellectualDueProcess
Bell:FrenchLegalCultures
Bercusson:EuropeanLabourLaw,2ndEdition
Birkinshaw:EuropeanPublicLaw
Birkinshaw:FreedomofInformation:TheLaw,thePracticeandtheIdeal,4thEdition
Blick:ElectrifiedDemocracy
Broderick&Ferri:InternationalandEuropeanDisabilityLawandPolicy:Text,Cases
andMaterials
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Brownsword&Goodwin:LawandtheTechnologiesoftheTwenty-FirstCentury:Text
andMaterials
Cane&Goudkamp:Atiyah’sAccidents,CompensationandtheLaw,9thEdition
Clarke:PrinciplesofPropertyLaw
Clarke&Kohler:PropertyLaw:CommentaryandMaterials
Collins:TheLawofContract,4thEdition
Collins,Ewing&McColgan:LabourLaw,2ndEdition
Cowan:HousingLawandPolicy
Cranston:CommercialLawfromtheNineteenthCentury:LawasBackcloth
Cranston:LegalFoundationsoftheWelfareState
Darian-Smith:LawsandSocietiesinGlobalContexts:ContemporaryApproaches
Dauvergne:MakingPeopleIllegal:WhatGlobalisationMeansforImmigrationandLaw
David:Kinship,LawandPolitics:AnAnatomyofBelonging
Davies:PerspectivesonLabourLaw,2ndEdition
Dembour:WhoBelievesinHumanRights?:ReflectionsontheEuropeanConvention
deSousaSantos:TowardaNewLegalCommonSense:Law,Globalization,and
Emancipation
Diduck:Law’sFamilies
Dupret:PositiveLawfromtheMuslimWorld
Estella:LegalFoundationsofEUEconomicGovernance
Fortin:Children’sRightsandtheDevelopingLaw,3rdEdition
Garnsey:TheJusticeofVisualArt:CreativeState-BuildinginTimesofPolitical
Transition
Garton,Probert&Bean:Moffat’sTrustsLaw:TextandMaterials,7thEdition
Ghai&Woodman:PractisingSelf-Government:AComparativeStudyofAutonomous
Regions
Glover-Thomas:ReconstructingMentalHealthLawandPolicy
Gobert&Punch:RethinkingCorporateCrime
Goldman:GlobalisationandtheWesternLegalTradition:RecurringPatternsofLaw
andAuthority
Haack:EvidenceMatters:Science,Proof,andTruthintheLaw
Harlow&Rawlings:LawandAdministration,4thEdition
Harris:AnIntroductiontoLaw,8thEdition
Harris,Campbell&Halson:RemediesinContractandTort,2ndEdition
Harvey:SeekingAsylumintheUK:ProblemsandProspects
Herring:LawandtheRelationalSelf
Hervey&McHale:EuropeanUnionHealthLaw:ThemesandImplications
Hervey&McHale:HealthLawandtheEuropeanUnion
Holder&Lee:EnvironmentalProtection,LawandPolicy:TextandMaterials,
2ndEdition
Jackson&Summers:TheInternationalisationofCriminalEvidence:Beyondthe
CommonLawandCivilLawTraditions
Kostakopoulou:TheFutureGovernanceofCitizenship
Kreiczer-Levy:DestabilizedProperty:PropertyLawintheSharingEconomy
Kubal:ImmigrationandRefugeeLawinRussia:Socio-LegalPerspectives
(continuedaftertheindex)
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