Critical theory and legal autopoiesis

This volume collects and revises the key essays of Gunther Teubner, one of the world’s leading sociologists of law. Written over the past twenty years, these essays examine the ‘dark side’ of functional differentiation and the prospects of societal constitutionalism as a possible remedy. Teubner''s claim is that critical accounts of law and society require reformulation in the light of the sophist...