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Book SynopsisDiscusses various aspects of the relationship of legal theory and the social sciences: methodological disputes and collaboration; common problems, especially as they concern different modes of explanation of social behaviour; and, common objects, including, most prominently, the study of language in its social context and normative pluralism.
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Methodology: Collaborations and Disputes: The Concept of Law and social theory, Martin Krygier; Legal theory and social theory, Kim Lane Scheppele; An analytical map of social scientific approaches to the concept of law, Brian Z. Tamanaha; Why must legal ideas be interpreted sociologically?, Roger Cotterrell; Analytical jurisprudence versus descriptive sociology revisited, Nicola Lacey; Legal research and the social sciences, Christopher McCrudden; Is law really a social science? A view from comparative law, Geoffrey Samuel. Part II Common Problems: Modes of Explanation of Behaviour: How the law thinks: towards a constructivist epistemology of law, Gunther Teubner; Law and spontaneous order: Hayek's contribution to legal theory, A.I. Ogus; The normativity of law, Lewis A. Kornhauser; Using the concept of legal culture, David Nelken; The law as social practice: are shared activities at the foundations of law?, Matthew Noah Smith. Part III Common Objects: Modes of Explanation of Legal Phenomena: Law as tradition, Martin Krygier; Language, law, and social meanings: linguistic/anthropological contributions to the study of law, Elizabeth Mertz; Mute law, Rodolfo Sacco; Social science and diffusion of law, William Twining; Understanding legal pluralism: past to present, local to global, Brian Z. Tamanaha; Name index.
