{"product_id":"9781509979004","title":"Legal Rights and the Institutional Imagination by Hamish Ross","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 02\/04\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book presents a contemporary perspective on legal rights centred on the longstanding will theory-interest theory debate. Starting with classical rights literature, central aspects of the debate in its modern idiom are contextualised within a social theory setting developed from the writings of Max Weber.   The book explores the idea that the institutional and coercive character of legal enforcement necessitates viewing legal rights as a locus of social power residing within the `institutional imagination': that is, in the decision-making of key institutional actors such as judges, prosecutors, police, governmental authorities - and ultimately supreme court judges - who routinely mobilise coercive mechanisms towards the enforcement of legal rights and powers. This marks a departure from the trend of rights literature to view legal rights largely from the standpoint of the right-holder. The book also touches on whether the emerging perspective points towards a `third way' beyond the traditional two theoretical approaches.   A major task of the study is the construction of an archetypal supreme court judge - personifying the `institutional imagination' - fashioned, via Weberian sociology, from a critique of Ronald Dworkin's `Herculean' judge and measured against doctrinal exegesis that draws on sources which include UK higher appellate court judgments. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368952476021,"sku":"9781509979004","price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781509979004.jpg?v=1763551486","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781509979004","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}