Part I. Sociology of law and the intersystemic openness of legal systems
The trans-planetary journey of a legal sociologist / André-Jean Arnaud
The growth of legal transnationalism / Roger Cotterrell
A comment / Alberto Febbrajo
Part II. Social communication and legal regulation
The big, large and huge case of state-building : studying structural coupling at the macro lavel / Gorm Harste
Reflexive governance in the European Union? An example of structural coupling / Julien Broquet
Contract as a form of intersystemic communication / Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen
Functional differentiation, financial instruments and regulatory challenges / John Paterson
Values as certain uncertainties : the paradox of value communication in organisational practice / Victoria von Groddeck
Moralized communications and social regulation / Diane Laflamme
Part III. Beyond legal positivism : norms, rights and constitutions
Making law together? : on some intersystemic conditions of judicial cooperation / Jan Winczoreck
Rights in Niklas Luhmann's systems theory / Pierre Guibentif
Jurisprudence and intersystemic (Mis)communication / Katayoun Baghai
Structural coupling between the systems of law and the media : the contrasting examples of criminal conviction and criminal appeal / Richard Nobles, David Schiff
Constituting constitutions beyond the State : polycontextural constitutionalism in the world society / Lasha Bregvadze
Legal pluralism as a form of structural coupling / Gunther Teubner.
Law and intersystemic communication : understanding structural coupling. ISBN 9781409421108. Published by Ashgate Pub. in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.