... Preface This book sets out my version of the institutional theory of law. This theory has been taking shape since my 1973 inaugural lecture, Law as Institutional Fact . Many of the ideas in it have been put forward in more tentative or preliminary form in other papers and books, and in lectures...

... of “argumentation through law” that attaches formal validity to claims about membership, recognition, and equality. African Union international courts Kenya international criminal law armed conflict institutional theories of law United Nations UN Security Council Yemen expressivism motivations for legal...

... on this shortcoming if we understand criminal law as a particular type of social and legal institution directed at the general aim of securing civil order. Chapter 1 argues that criminalization must be understood as a legal question, and that this can best be understood in terms of an institutional theory of law...

...This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the institutional theory of law, which aims to develop a better understanding of law than other current legal theories offer, starting from a definition of law: Law is institutional normative order. In explaining the elements...

...This book examines the transformation of sovereignty in the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU), the transition from sovereign states to post-sovereign states, devolution and nationalism, and the future of the British union. It applies the institutional theory of law to a general...