法律 简要介绍 Law A Very Short Introduction

基本信息

Series:Very Short Introductions

Format:Paperback / softback 208 pages, 15 black and white halftones

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Imprint:Oxford University Press

Edition:3 Revised edition

ISBN:9780192870506

Published:25 May 2023

Weight:174g

Dimensions:173 x 112 x 14 (mm)

Pub. Country:United Kingdom

Country of Origin:GB

Tariff Codes:49019900

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

法律是每个社会的核心，它保护权利，规定义务，并为几乎所有的社会、政治和经济活动的开展建立一个框架。尽管如此，法律似乎常常是一个技术性很强、令人困惑的谜，它有过时的、往往难以理解的行话，有过时的程序，有无休止的判决和复杂的立法。

在这本《非常简短的介绍》中，雷蒙德-瓦克斯介绍了法律的主要分支，描述了律师的工作和法院的运作方式，并考虑了法律的哲学及其对正义、自由和平等的追求。瓦克斯将这门学科置于我们的当代世界中，考虑到全球化和数字化的压力，以及在我们受到威胁的安全和监控文化中的法律性质。在这个新版本中，作者考虑了一些对法律有影响的社会和政治事件。

在这个新版本中，作者考虑了一些对法律有影响的社会和政治事件，包括COVID-19大流行病、社交媒体和监控的增长，以及对法治日益增长的威胁。

关于该系列：《极简介绍》系列包含了几乎所有学科领域的数百种书。这些口袋大小的书籍是快速掌握新学科的很好的方式。我们的专家作者将事实、分析、观点、新想法和热情结合起来，使有趣和具有挑战性的主题具有很强的可读性。

Law is at the heart of every society, protecting rights, imposing duties, and establishing a framework for the conduct of almost all social, political, and economic activity. Despite this, the law often seems a highly technical, perplexing mystery, with its antiquated and often impenetrable jargon, obsolete procedures, and endless stream of judgements and complex legislation.

In this Very Short Introduction Raymond Wacks introduces the major branches of the law, describing what lawyers do, and how courts operate, and considers the philosophy of law and its pursuit of justice, freedom, and equality. Wacks locates the discipline in our contemporary world, considering the pressures of globalization and digitalisation, and the nature of the law in our culture of threatened security and surveillance. In this new edition, the author considers a number of social

and political events that have had an impact on the law, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the growth of social media and surveillance, and the increasing threats to the rule of law.

ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

作者简介

雷蒙德-瓦克斯是中国香港大学法律和法律理论的名誉教授。他著有16本书，已被翻译成十几种语言。其中包括《个人信息： 隐私与法律》（1989年，OUP）；《隐私与媒体自由》（2013年，OUP）；《隐私：非常简短的介绍》 (2015, OUP); 还有《法律哲学：非常简短的介绍》2014, OUP)。他近期的出版物包括《保护个人信息》： 《对隐私权的重新考虑》(2020), 《COVID-19与数字时代的公共政策》。 (2021), 《新的世界秩序中的国家安全： 政府和信息技术》（与安德烈-蒙蒂合作）。

Raymond Wacks is Emeritus Professor of Law and Legal Theory at the University of Hong Kong, China. He is the author of sixteen books which have been translated into a dozen languages. They include Personal Information: Privacy and the Law (1989, OUP); Privacy and Media Freedom (2013, OUP); Privacy: A Very Short Introduction (2015, OUP); and Philosophy of Law: A Very Short Introduction, (2014, OUP). His recent publications include Protecting Personal Information: The Right to Privacy Reconsidered (2020), COVID-19 and Public Policy in the Digital Age (2021), and National Security in the New World Order: Government and the Technology of Information (with Andrea Monti).