Law in Modern Society

• Provides a succinct analysis of the main issues that arise in the relationship between law and society, thereby encouraging students to fully consider the role, and influence, of the legal system
• Explores how the law affects modern society with reference to, and critical analysis of, the works of key legal and social theorists
• An authoritative and original introduction to the study of law and society, written by a highly respected and leading academic in the field

Readership: Undergraduate and postgraduate students studying jurisprudence or legal philosophy as part of their law or sociology courses.

Denis Galligan, Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford

1: Setting the bounds of law in modern society
2: Approaches to law in society
3: Law as social rules
4: Law prior to rules
5: Law as a system of rules
6: Social spheres
7: The reception of law
8: Law and coercion
9: Legal pluralism: parallel legal orders
10: Extended legal pluralism: informal legal orders
11: Does law have social functions?
12: The social value of law
13: Forms of modern legal orders
14: Social foundations of modern legal form
15: Implementation and the architecture of law
16: Implementation: the legal and social environment
17: Change through the law: the contours of compliance