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Law as a Social System

Emilios Christodoulidis
- 01 Jan 2006 - 
- Vol. 69, Iss: 1, pp 123-129
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In this paper, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of homonymity of homophily in the context of homomorphic data, and no abstracts are available.
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Medium as a basic concept of sociology: contributions from systems theory

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Global Legal Pluralism

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss how legal pluralism engages with legal globalization and how legal globalization utilizes legal plurality, and provide an outlook on the future of global legal plurality as theory and practice.
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Organization as Communication: A Luhmannian Perspective

TL;DR: A growing body of literature in organization studies draws on the idea that communication constitutes organization, often abbreviated to CCO as discussed by the authors and introduces Luhmann's theory of social systems as a prominent example of CCO thinking.
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Transnational Legal Pluralism

TL;DR: The concept of transnational legal pluralism as mentioned in this paper has been proposed to understand the evolution of law in relation and response to the development of "world society" in the context of regulatory governance.
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Formal/Informal Dialectics and the Self-Transformation of Spatial Planning Systems:: An Exploration

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a perspective on the interaction between formal and informal institutions in spatial planning in which they transform each other continuously, in processes that can be described and analyzed as ongoing reinterpretations.
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Defining the Space of Transnational Law: Legal Theory, Global Governance & Legal Pluralism

TL;DR: A review of the preceding scholarly work and attempts to contextualize it in debates around global governance and global constitutionalism can be found in this paper, where the authors suggest that we ought to revisit legal sociological insights into the emergence of legal pluralism.