Gunther Teubner 
Autopoietic Law – A New Approach to Law and Society [PDF ebook] 

Frontmatter — Introduction to Autopoietic Law — The Unity of the Legal System — The Law of Law — On the Supposed Closure of Normative Systems — Between Order and Disorder: The Game of Law — Biological Metaphors in Legal Thought — The Communicative Autonomy of the Legal System — The Autonomy of Law: Two Visions Compared — Changing Paradigms in the Sociology of Law — Evolution of Autopoietic Law — Perspectives on a Post-Modern Theory of Law: A Critique of Niklas Luhmann, ’The Unity of the Legal System’ — Accounting for Law — The Fact of Law — Closure and Openness: On Reality in the World of Law — Talking About Autopoiesis — Order From Noise? — Authors’ Biographical Sketches — Name Index — Subject Index