TY - BOOK AU - James T. McHugh PY - 2002 CY - New York, United States of America PB - Peter Lang Verlag TI - The Essential Concept of Law UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1094643 N2 - The Essential Concept of Law provides an overview of law from both a theoretical and practical perspective. It begins with the most fundamental categories of legal ideas and heritages and then proceeds to explore increasingly narrow and specialized understandings, including the relationship of law to Western ideologies, the concept of tribal law, the relationship of law and religion, the common law and civil law systems, and an explanation of essential legal categories, such as property, contract, punishment, and rights and liberties. This book also explores other, equally fundamental subjects that give law its overall meaning, structure, and purpose, especially within its broader political, philosophical, and social context. KW - religion, property, contract, punishment, rights LA - English ER -