Properties of Law is a legal-theoretical analysis about modern state law; about sociality, normativity and plurality as its properties, and what will come after modern state law. The main objective of this study is to offer a legal theoretical recapitulation of modern state law that avoids the fallacies of Legal Positivism. This calls for a relationist approach where law's sociality is related to normativity, and normativity to sociality. Avoiding Legal Positivism's fallacies also includes refraining from extrapolating from modern state law to law in general; replacing Legal Positivism's conceptual universalism with sensitivity to the varieties of law, and acknowledging that law existed before modern state law, that it will exist after modern state law, and that other law exists alongside modern state law. The book concludes with a discussion of the impact of digitalization on law.

The book relates the normativity of law to law's internal sociality and shows the multi-layered nature of legal normativity.

About the Author
Kaarlo Tuori is Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, Finland. He has led a Centre of Excellence in European Law and Polity, financed by Academy of Finland, 2008-2013, and has served as a counsellor to the Constitutional Law Committee of Parliament and as a Member of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe (1998-).


Book Information
ISBN 9781108844727
Author Kaarlo Tuori
Format Hardback
Page Count 278
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 710g
Dimensions(mm) 250mm * 172mm * 22mm