Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-2001

Disciplines

Law and Politics | Legal History | Rule of Law

Abstract

The author explains that there is scope for a general theory about the nature and place of form in the fundamentals of law. Form organizes the institutions, rules and other varieties of law, and the system as a whole. All such constructs have non-formal elements, too, but form unifies each construct and provides its criteria of identity. Appropriate form makes a system of law possible. It also tends to beget good content in the law. It is indispensable to the basic needs of a legal system, and when such an end is organizational, as with democracy, liberty, and the rule of law, form is end as well as means.

Publication Citation

Published in: Ratio Juris, Vol. 14, No. 1 (March 2001).

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