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the Institute of JudicialAdministration,University of Birmingham;William L.F.Felstiner,Professor,Law and Society Program,University of California,Santa Barbara;DenisGalligan,Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and Director of the Centre forSocio-Legal Studies,Oxford;Sally Lloyd-Bostock,Professor of Law andPsychology,University of Birmingham;Doreen McBarnet,Senior ResearchFellow,Centre for Socio-Legal Studies,Oxford;Simon Roberts,Professorof Law,London School of Economics and Political Science.  \nInternational Advisory Board:John Braithwaite(Australian NationalUniversity);Robert Cooter(University of California-Berkeley);Bryant Garth(American Bar Foundation);Volkmar Gessner(University of Bremen);Vittorio Olgiati(University of Milan);Martin Partington(University ofBristol).  \nOxford Socio-Legal Studies is a series of books exploring the role of law insociety for both an academic and a wider readership.The series publishestheoretical and empirically informed work,from the United Kingdom andelsewhere,by social scientists and lawyers which advances understanding ofthe social reality of law and legal processes.  \n# LAW ASA SOCIAL SYSTEM\n\nNIKLAS LUHMANN  \nTranslated by Klaus A.Ziegert  \nEdited by Fatima Kastner,Richard Nobles,David Schiff,and Rosamund Ziegert  \nWith an Introduction by:Richard Nobles and David Schiff  \nOXFORD  \nUNIVBRSITY PRBSS  \nGreat Clarendon Street,Oxford ox26DP  \nOxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research,scholarship,and education by publishing worldwide in  \nOxford New York  \nAuckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town ChennaiDar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi KolkataKuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai NairobiSao Paulo Shanghai Taipei Tokyo Toronto  \nOxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Pressin the UK and in certain other countries  \nPublished in the United Statesby Oxford University Press Inc.,New York  \nThis translation of the book first published as Niklas Luhmann,Das Recht der Gesellschaft,is published under licencefrom Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main  \n◎ Oxford University Press,2004  \n◎in the original German edition,Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main,1993The moral rights of the author have been assertedDatabase right Oxford University Press(maker)First published 2004  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted,in any form or by any means,without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press,or as expressly permitted by law,or under terms agreed with the appropriatereprographics rights organization.Enquiries concerning reproductionoutside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department,Oxford University Press,at the address above  \nYou must not circulate this book in any other binding or coverand you must impose this same condition on any acquirer  \n# British Library Cataloguing in Publication DataData available\n\nLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication DataData availableISBN 0-19-826238-8  \n3579108642  \nTypeset by Newgen Imaging Systems(P)Ltd.,Chennai,IndiaPrinted in Great Britainon acid-free paper byBiddles Ltd,King's Lynn  \nINSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DEHAUTES ÉTUDES INTERNATIONALESBIBLIOTHEQUECase postale 76CH-1211 GENEVE 21  \n# General Editor's Introduction\n\nThe late Niklas Luhmann is widely regarded as one of the most significantsocial theorists of recent years.Luhmann's work is concerned with thedevelopment of a general theory of modern society treated as a commun-ication system,comprising a number of functionally specialized,self-referential,and self-reproducing sub-systems.Law is one such sub-system,and each chapter in Law as a Social System applies the theory to themesrelating to law and the legal system,m","cbCairyVsegrTR6s","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairyVsegrTR6s","pdf",25985695,512,"English","# LAW ASA SOCIAL SYSTEM\n## General Editor's 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