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  1. How the Welfare State Tries to Protect Itself Against the law: Luhmann and new Forms of Social Immune Mechanism.Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen & Paul Stenner - 2024 - Law and Critique 35 (2):257-279.
    Sociologist Niklas Luhmann argued that the law functions as society’s immune system by regulating conflicts that threaten the certainty of expectation structures. In this article, we argue that law itself has become a target of new social immune mechanisms. Since the 1980s, welfare states have increasingly seen their own structures as a threat. Today, the ideal is a public sector consisting of organizations that constantly emerge anew by selecting the structures that fit each specific moment, case, and citizen. To protect (...)
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