| Overview
Law
Between Legality and Legitimacy: Discourse Theory
Jürgen
Habermas (born 1929): “...Habermas not only posits a special relation between
law and politics through the legislative process and the democratic character
of modern political power, he also maintains a special relation between
law and morality.” (p.166)
Law Beyond
Politics and Morality: Autopoiesis
Niklas
Luhmann (1927—1998): “Luhmann conceives of law as the autopoietic system
that forms and reproduces generalized behavioral expectations in view of
conflict situations that need to be resolved.” (p.168)
Democracy
and Law: Theoretical Variations
“In
a democratic system, there is always an interdependence between government
and people in the form of electoral processes (representing the democratic
input from the people to the government) and legislative decision-making
(the democratic output from the government to the people).” (p.169)
Democratic
Deficits of Law
“Sociological
analyses of law and democracy...can reveal the shortcomings of the realization
of democratic ideals in law on the basis of research on cases where legal
realities are shown to clash with democratic ideals despite the law’s self-proclaimed
function of providing justice and equality for all.” (p.172)
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Selected
Online Articles (external links)
 Habermas,
Jürgen. 1995. "Multiculturalism
and the Liberal State." Stanford Law Review 47(5):849-853.
Habermas,
Jürgen. 2001. "Constitutional
Democracy: A Paradoxical Union of Contradictory Principles?" Political
Theory 29(6):766-781.
Habermas,
Jürgen. 2007. "A
Political Constitution for the Pluralist World Society?" Journal of
Chinese Philosophy 34(4):331-343. [ 
manuscript at Yale]
Deflem,
Mathieu. 1996. “Introduction:
Law in Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action.” Pp. 1-20 in Habermas,
Modernity and Law, edited by Mathieu Deflem. London: Sage. [at
the author's website]
Bohman,
James. 1994. "Complexity,
Pluralism, and the Constitutional State: On Habermas's Faktizität
und Geltung." Law & Society Review 28(4):897-930.
Luhmann,
Niklas. 1988. "The
Third Question: The Creative Use of Paradoxes in Law and Legal History."
Journal of Law and Society 15(2):153-165.
Luhmann,
Niklas. 1995. "Legal
Argumentation: An Analysis of Its Form." The Modern Law Review 58(3):285-298.
Rottleuthner,
Hubert. 1989. “A
Purified Sociology of Law: Niklas Luhmann on the Autonomy of the
Legal System.” Law & Society Review 23(5):779-798.
Welch,
Michael. 2003. “Ironies
of Social Control and the Criminalization of Immigrants.” Crime, Law
and Social Change 39(4):319-337.[
at the publisher's website]
Welch,
Michael, and Liza Schuster. 2005. “Detention
of Asylum Seekers in the UK and USA: Deciphering Noisy and Quiet Constructions.”
Punishment and Society 7(4):397-417. [at the publisher's website]
Uggen,
Christopher and Jeff Manza. 2002. "Democratic
Contraction? Political Consequences of Felon Disenfranchisement in the
United States." American Sociological Review 67(6):777-803. [
at the author's website]
Behrens,
Angela, Uggen, Christopher, and Jeff Manza. 2003. “Ballot
Manipulation and the ‘Menace of Negro Domination’: Racial Threat and Felon
Disenfranchisement in the United States, 1850—2002.” American Journal
of Sociology 109:559-605. [
at the author's website]
Uggen,
Christopher, Angela Behrens, and Jeff Manza. 2005. “Criminal
Disenfranchisement.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science 1:307-322.[
at the author's website]
Lande,
John. 2005. “Shifting
the Focus From the Myth of ‘The Vanishing Trial’ to Complex Conflict Management
Systems, or I Learned Almost Everything I Need to Know About Conflict Resolution
From Marc Galanter.” Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution 6:191-212.[
at the author's website]
Lande,
John. 2005. “Procedures
for Building Quality into Court Mediation Programs.” Alternatives to
the High Cost of Litigation 23:17-24.[
at the author's website]
Lande,
John. 2006. “How
Much Justice Can We Afford? Defining the Courts’ Roles and Deciding the
Appropriate Number of Trials, Settlement Signals, and Other Elements Needed
to Administer Justice.” Journal of Dispute Resolution (1):213-252.[
at the author's website]
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