1st Edition

Law and Society in Transition Toward Responsive Law

150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

Year by year, law seems to penetrate ever larger realms of social, political, and economic life, generating both praise and blame. Nonet and Selznick's Law and Society in Transition explains in accessible language the primary forms of law as a social, political, and normative phenomenon. They illustrate with great clarity the fundamental difference between repressive law, riddled with raw conflict... Read more
I: Jurisprudence and Social Science; II: Repressive Law; III: Autonomous Law; IV: Responsive Law

Biography

Philip Selznick, Philippe Nonet, Robert A. Kagan