This long-awaited book, by the celebrated philosopher Antony Duff, offers a new perspective on the structures of criminal law and criminal liability. The book's starting point is a distinction between
This is the paperback edition of Antony Duff's acclaimed work on the structures of criminal law and criminal liability. His starting point is a distinction between responsibility (understood as answer
This book uses Niklas Luhmann's systems theory to explore how the legal system operates as one of modern society's subsystems. It demonstrates how this theory alters our understanding of some of the m
How can we characterize law and legal theory in the 21st century? This book argues that we live in an age 'after modernity' and that legal theory must take account of this fact. The book attacks, as o
