Law I / What Law Is For
Practice question · Put in order

Arrange these works of functional analysis in chronological order.

Hints
  1. The two nineteenth-century entries are sixteen years apart.
  2. The two entries from the 1970s close the sequence.
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  1. Ihering, Der Zweck im Recht, 1877
  2. Durkheim, De la division du travail social, 1893
  3. Parsons, The Social System, 1951
  4. Luhmann, Rechtssoziologie, 1972
  5. Bobbio, Dalla struttura alla funzione, 1977
Why

A century separates the first from the last, and the shape of the question changes across it. Ihering and Durkheim ask what law does for a society; Parsons and Luhmann ask how it does it as a system; Bobbio turns the question back on legal theory and asks why the discipline had stopped asking.

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