Table of Contents
Contents: Volume I: Montesquieu and sociological jurisprudence, Eugen Ehrlich; Maine's ancient law in the light of primitive societies, Robert Redfield; Law and social change: Sumner reconsidered, Harry V. Ball, George Eaton Simpson and Kiyoshi Ikeda; Law in Pareto's sociology, N.S. Timasheff; Petrazycki's significance for contemporary legal and moral theory, Aleksander W. Rudzinski; Unrecognised father of sociology of law: Leon Petrazycki - reflections based on Jan Gorecki's Sociology and Jurisprudence of Leon Petrazycki, Adam Podgorecki; Legal positivism and bourgeois materialism: Max Weber's view of the sociology of law, Martin Albrow; Max Weber's tragic modernism and the study of law in society, David M. Trubek; The sociology behind Eugen Ehrlich's sociology of law, Klaus A. Ziegert; Law in action or living law? Back to the beginning in sociology of law, David Nelken; Commodity form and legal form: an essay on the 'relative autonomy' of the law, Isaac D. Balbus; On recent Marxist theories of law, the state and juridico-political ideology, Bob Jessop; Gramsci on law, morality and power, Mark Benney; Durkheim's sociology of law, Michael Clarke; Durkheim on legal development and social solidarity, Roger B.M. Cotterrell; The legal sociology of Georges Gurvitch, Pauline McDonald; N.S. Timasheff's sociology of law, David Schiff; Behavioral sociology of law: a critique of Donald Black, Alan Hunt; The Habermas effect: critical theory and academic law, W.T. Murphy; Between power and knowledge: Habermas, Foucault and the future of legal studies, Jonathan Simon; Derrida's justice and Foucault's freedom: ethics, history and social movements, Mariana Valverde; The 'truth' about autopoiesis, Michael King; Name index. Volume II: How Law Constitutes Social Life: Conformity, contestation and resistance: an account of legal consciousness, Patricia Ewick and Susan S. Silbey; Interpretative socio-legal research, Christine B. Harrington and Barbara Yngvesson; Being social in socio-legal studies, Peter Fitzpatrick; A legal concept of community, Roger Cotterrell. Interpreting Legal Discourses: The poverty of evolutionism: a critique of Teubner's case for reflexive law, Erhard Blankenberg; Autopoiesis in law and society: a rejoinder to Blankenberg, Gunther Teubner; Operational closure and structural coupling: the differentiation of the legal system, Niklas Luhmann; How the law thinks: towards a constructivist epistemology of law, Gunther Teubner; Why must legal ideas be interpreted sociologically?, Roger Cotterrell; Blinding insights? The limits of a reflexive sociology of law, David Nelken; The force of law: toward a sociology of the juridical field, Pierre Bourdieu. The New Legal Pluralism: Justice in many rooms: courts, private ordering and indigenous law, Marc Galanter; The folly of the 'social scientific' concept of legal pluralism, Brian Z. Tamanaha; Law and societies, Peter Fitzpatrick; Law: a map of misreading: toward a postmodern conception of law, Boaventura De Sousa Santos; Law and community: a new relationship?, Roger Cotterrell; The king's many bodies: the self-deconstruction of law's hierarchy, Gunther Teubner. The Horizons of Regulation: Norms, discipline and the law, François Ewald; Foucault's expulsion of law: toward a retrieval, Alan Hunt; Governed by law?, Nikolas Rose and Mariana Valverde; Name index.
