Abstract
The idea that the legal order can also be understood as a symbolic order has been explored in this volume from various disciplinary perspectives, ranging from symbolic legislation theory to bioethics, from biolaw to EU law, and from sociology to anthropology. In the contributions to part I of this volume various aspects of the general theory of symbolic legislation were discussed. Subsequentely, in parts II and III, the symbolic dimensions of law were analyzed and examined in an area of law in which the notion of the symbolic has acquired a central role: biolaw. In these concluding remarks, we offer a reflection on how the notion of the symbolic has been discussed and developed in the various contributions to this volume. Our aim is to bring together the volume’s first theoretical part with the subsequent two more applied parts on biolaw.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Similar content being viewed by others
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2016 Springer International Publishing Switzerland
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
van Beers, B., van Klink, B., Poort, L. (2016). Law as a Symbolic Order: Some Concluding Remarks. In: van Klink, B., van Beers, B., Poort, L. (eds) Symbolic Legislation Theory and Developments in Biolaw. Legisprudence Library, vol 4. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33365-6_17
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33365-6_17
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-33363-2
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-33365-6
eBook Packages: Law and CriminologyLaw and Criminology (R0)