Law and Justice in Community

This book offers an account of the nature of law that refutes modern, positivist theories and argues that law exists in all human communities before it is formally expressed. Drawing on anthropology and classical theory, the theory of law offered will be of interest to students of philosophy, anthropology, and the sociological study of law.

Reviews

`The authors draw from disparate sources, historic and geographic, for conceptual inspiration and example. The authors' reliance on the Greeks and Romans and the work of Thomas Aquinas, and their resulting global approach to the theory of law, counterbalances the specificity of school into which jurisprudential enquiry has migrated. The authors do not proceed from an overly rigorous process of definition and methodology but from a common sense and learned approach drawn from their independent, clear-thinking reflection. As a consequence, those who do not agree with everything in the book will find much of value so far as the authors' intuitive analyses elucidate, correspond with, and broaden their own experience and views.'Diarmuid Rossa Phelan, Dublin University Law Journal