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Research Handbook on Law and Systems Theory (eBook)

Edited by: Ralf Rogowski

ISBN13: 9781035389605
Published: April 2026
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Country of Publication: UK
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This Research Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the significance of systems theory for analysing law in modern society. Expert contributors examine key theoretical developments and core approaches to systems theory, illustrating the strengths of this transdisciplinary theoretical framework across research fields and areas of law.

Chapters cover a range of areas of law that this approach can be applied to, including constitutional law and constitutionalism, contract law, environmental law, social work and labour law. The Research Handbook draws on detailed case studies to investigate how this theoretical framework can be used in diverse contexts, exploring human rights, hate speech, climate change governance and corruption through this lens. It also highlights the role of systems theory across technology and business, from artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies to illegality in organisations, the regulation of risk and investment arbitration tribunals.

This forward-looking Research Handbook will be valuable to students and scholars of systems theory and research methods in law, as well as jurisprudence more widely, as it provides an informative analysis of the latest research and thinking in this dynamic field.

Subjects:
Jurisprudence, eBooks
Contents:
1. Introduction to law and systems theory 1
Ralf Rogowski

PART I THEORY
2. Legal autopoiesis and its limits 11
Marcelo Neves
3. Emergence and personification: How the law makes non-human
entities speak 30
Gunther Teubner
4. Modern law and the military system: The missing soldier? 48
Chris Thornhill
5. Responsive sociology of law 68
Alfons Bora
6. Law and critical systems theory 79
João P. Bachur
7. Systems theory, law and complexity theory 94
Thomas E. Webb and Steven Wheatley
8. The resonance capacity of the legal system 107
Hannah Vermaßen and André Brodocz
9. Systems theory and legal aesthetics: Thou shall not differentiate! 124
Francesco Forzani and Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
10. Law, society: “systemic” vs “systematic”? 137
Anton Schütz

PART II RESEARCH FIELDS
11. Systems theory and the regulation of knowledge 152
Karl-Heinz Ladeur
12. Law and artificial intelligence: A matter of couplings 168
Aldo Mascareño
13. Systems theory and global civil society 185
Germano Schwartz
14. Systems theory and constitutionalism 200
Alberto Febbrajo
15. Climate change governance: A systems theory analysis 214
Karin Buhmann
16. Systems theory and the regulation of corruption in developing countries 229
Chukwuemeka Castro Nwabuzor
17. Illegality in organisations and systems theory 246
Stefan Kühl
18. Systems theory and the legal regulation of risk 266
Inger Johanne Sand
19. Social work and modern social systems theory 278
Sti Piilgaard Porner Nielsen

PART III AREAS OF LAW
20. Systems theory and human rights 292
Gert Verschraegen
21. Systems theory and contract law 307
Dan Wielsch
22. Environmental law and autopoietic systems theory 320
John Paterson
23. Systems theory and investment arbitration tribunals 334
Rafael Quintero Godínez
24. Reflexive regulation of cryptocurrencies 353
Immaculate Motsi-Omoijiade
25. Systems theory and the regulation of anti-discrimination 372
Kirandeep Kaur and Ralf Rogowski
26. Systems theory and hate speech 385
Nico Buitendag
27. Systems theory and procedure 398
Stefan Machura
28. Systems theory, law, and the digital media 409
Bernard Keenan
Index 419