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  1. “But his sense of justice turned him into a brigand and a murderer.” On Gunther Teubner’s “Self-subversive Justice: Contingency or Transcendence Formula of Law?”

    Article • Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie, April 2024, De Gruyter

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  2. LUHMANN ON LAW AND LEGAL THEORY

    Article • February 2023, JSTOR

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  3. Neo-Systems Theory and Jurisprudence

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  4. Sociology of the legal system

    Article • December 2020, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  5. The Supervision of Guilty Pleas by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales – Workable Relationships and Tragic Choices

    Article • Criminal Law Forum, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  6. Neo-Systems Theory and Jurisprudence

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  7. Taking the Complexity of Complex Systems Seriously

    Article • Modern Law Review, October 2019, Wiley

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  8. Criminal Justice Unhinged: The Challenge of Guilty Pleas

    Article • Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, November 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  9. Neo-Systems Theory and Jurisprudence

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  10. Trials and Miscarriages: an evolutionary socio-historical analysis

    Article • Criminal Law Forum, September 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  11. Observing Sovereignty, Law and Politics at the Global LevelPŘIBÁŇJIŘÍ, Sovereignty in Post-Sovereign Society: A Systems Theory of European Constitutionalism. Farnham: Ashgate/Routledge, 2015, pp. 254, ISBN 9781472460875, £80.00 (hbk)

    Article • Social & Legal Studies, May 2017, SAGE Publications

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  12. Taking the evolution of legal doctrine seriously: review of Katayoun Baghai, Social Systems Theory and Judicial Review: Taking Jurisprudence Seriously (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. 188 pp. £65/£58.50)

    Article • International Journal of Law in Context, February 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  13. Introduction

    Article • April 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  14. The Sociology of The Politics of Jurisprudence

    Article • April 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  15. Structural Coupling between the Systems of Law and the Media: The Contrasting Examples of Criminal Conviction and Criminal Appeal

    Article • April 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  16. Legal Argumentation: A Sociological Account

    Article • Jurisprudence, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  17. Civil disobedience and constituent power

    Article • International Journal of Law in Context, November 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  18. Law, Society and Community: Socio-Legal Essays in Honour of Roger Cotterrell. Edited by Richard Nobles and David Schiff [Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014. x + 361 pp. Hardback £67.50. ISBN 9781472409829.]

    Article • The Cambridge Law Journal, October 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  19. Luhmann: Law, Justice, and Time

    Article • International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, June 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  20. Pulling Back from the Edge?

    Article • Modern Law Review, May 2013, Wiley

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  21. Legal Pluralism: A Systems Theory Approach to Language, Translation, and Communication

    Article • February 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  22. Using Systems Theory to Study Legal Pluralism: What Could Be Gained?

    Article • Law & Society Review, June 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  23. After Ten Years: An Investment in Justice?

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  24. Disobedience to Law – Debbie Purdy's Case

    Article • Modern Law Review, March 2010, Wiley

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  25. Public Confidence in Criminal Justice: The Lessons from Miscarriages of Justice

    Article • The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, November 2009, Wiley

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  26. Jurisprudence as Self-Description: Natural law and Positivism within the English Legal System

    Article • May 2009, De Gruyter

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  27. Why do judges talk the way they do?

    Article • International Journal of Law in Context, March 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  28. Absurd Asymmetry – a Comment on R v Cottrell and Fletcher1 and BM, KK and DP (Petitioners) v Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission2

    Article • Modern Law Review, April 2008, Wiley

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  29. The Emperor's New Clothes

    Article • Modern Law Review, January 2007, Wiley

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  30. Guilt and Innocence in the Criminal Justice System: A Comment on R (Mullen) v Secretary of State for the Home Department

    Article • Modern Law Review, January 2006, Wiley

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  31. Misleading Statistics within Criminal Trials

    Article • Significance, February 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  32. Richard Nobles and David Schiff

    Article • March 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  33. Due Process and Dirty Harry Dilemmas: Criminal Appeals and the Human Rights Act

    Article • Modern Law Review, November 2001, Wiley

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  34. The Criminal Cases Review Commission: Reporting Success?

    Article • Modern Law Review, March 2001, Wiley

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  35. Into and out of crisis: a recent history of media reporting on miscarriages of justice1

    Article • March 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  36. Scientific evidence and investigation by the new Criminal Cases Review Commission: the scope for further miscarriages of justice and crisis

    Article • March 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  37. Introduction

    Article • March 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  38. Remedying miscarriages of justice: the history of the Court of Criminal Appeal

    Article • March 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  39. From understanding miscarriage of justice to reform

    Article • March 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  40. Problematizing miscarriage of justice

    Article • March 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  41. The Never Ending Story: Disguising Tragic Choices in Criminal Justice

    Article • Modern Law Review, March 1997, Wiley

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  42. Criminal Appeal Act 1995: The Semantics of Jurisdiction

    Article • Modern Law Review, July 1996, Wiley

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  43. Miscarriages of Justice: A Systems Approach

    Article • Modern Law Review, May 1995, Wiley

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  44. REVIEWS

    Article • The British Journal of Criminology, January 1994, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  45. Understanding Legal Pluralism

    Article • Bloomsbury Academic

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  46. Bibliography

    Article • Bloomsbury Academic

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  47. Control through Law

    Article • Bloomsbury Academic

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  48. Appeals in Law

    Article • Bloomsbury Academic

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  49. How Law Constructs Time

    Article • Bloomsbury Academic

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  50. Can One Have a Right to Disobey a Law?

    Article • Bloomsbury Academic

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  51. Is the Legal System a System?

    Article • Bloomsbury Academic

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  52. Politics and Law : The Rule of Law, Constitutional Law, and Human Rights

    Article • Bloomsbury Academic

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff

  53. Why Do Judges Talk the Way They Do?

    Article • Bloomsbury Academic

    Emeritus Professor David Schiff