Innovation and Transition in Law: Experiences and Theoretical Settings

• Main Author: Paixão, Cristiano (ed.) (auth)
• Other Authors: Roesler, Claudia (ed.) (auth), Meccarelli, Massimo (ed.) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Figuerola Institute of Social Science History 2020
• Series: Historia del Derecho
• Subjects: Justice; Derecho; Constitutional change; Legal concepts; Legal hermeneutics; Time and legal change; Private companie; Historia; Law and technology; Legal history; Regimes of historicity; Democracy; Rhetoric; Politics of silence; Legal theory
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This book features a discussion on the modernisation of law and legal change, focusing on the key concepts of "innovation" and "transition". These concepts both appear to be relevant and poorly defined in contemporary legal science. A critical reflection on the heuristic value of...