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- Title
The Place of Form in the Fundamentals of Law*.
- Authors
Summers, Robert S.
- Abstract
The author explains that there is scope for a general theory about the nature and place of form in the fundamentals of law. Form organizes the institutions, rules and other varieties of law, and the system as a whole. All such constructs have non-formal elements, too, but form unifies each construct and provides its criteria of identity. Appropriate form makes a system of law possible. It also tends to beget good content in the law. It is indispensable to the basic needs of a legal system, and when such an end is organizational, as with democracy, liberty, and the rule of law, form is end as well as means.
- Subjects
LAW; FORM (Philosophy)
- Publication
Ratio Juris, 2001, Vol 14, Issue 1, p106
- ISSN
0952-1917
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-9337.00174