Joris van Hoboken

I got tagged by Michael Zimmer to participate in a blog meme. I have to write down the 6th-8th sentence on page 123 of the nearest book.

The nearest book, The Critical Legal Studies Movement by Roberto Mangabeira Unger does not contain a page 123 with text (the index starts there) but it does contain a page 24 ( 1 + 23 ) and sentence 6 to 8 go as follows:

“According to this modern view, the system of rights would rise above the real social order. Rights would work either as if this order did not exist or as if it could be adequately tamed and justified by the mere expedient of treating it as nonexistent for purposes of rights definition. The critical legal studies movement has committed itself to another change in the conception of the relation of law to society, potentially equal in scope and importance to the shift to rights indifferent to social rank and place.”

The book is rather complex. I seriously recommend it to anyone willing to test his or her limits of comprehension. Besides it is a classic in legal theory, criticizing formalism and objectivism resulting in a proposal for a constructive outcome.

I forward this little game toTheo Rohle at Netzmedium, Samspung at HiLaws, Peter Ryan at PR networks, Thomas Boonstoppel and Masters of Media.

This entry was posted on Monday, February 11th, 2008 at 9:19 pm and is filed under Misc.