Legal theory and the social sciences - Del Mar, Maksymilian, 1979-; Giudice, Michael (Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, 2010)
The Concept of law and socal 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 -- How the law thinks : toward 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 a social practice : are shared activities at the foundation of law? / Matthew Noah Smith -- 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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Law and the social sciences; Sociological jurisprudence