Law

During the latest 100 years many legal historians have contributed to an elucidation of 'legal reception', i.e., receipt and adoption of foreign law, in order to supplement or replace local law. The principal problem has been to clarify the reason …

For 2000 years, the study of law has assumed that our biological nature is a mere accessary of reason. Stig Jørgensen turns this scientific rationalism on its head. By using biology as his starting point, he portrays reason as a …

The purpose of law is to regulate various aspects of social life. Most theories of law elevate just one of these functions of the law to a universal or supreme level, whilst turning a blind eye to the others. Stig …