Law in Modern Society (Clarendon Law) [Hardcover]

Denis Galligan (Author)

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Publication Date: October 2006 | Series: Clarendon Law

This addition to the Clarendon Law Series offers a comprehensive account of, and contribution to, the study of law in modern society. Written by a leading academic in the field, this book examines the underlying idea that the legal system is a highly developed social system which has a distinctive character and structure, and which shapes and influences behavior.

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About the Author

Denis Galligan is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He teaches law and society, administrative law and legal and social theory.

Product Details

Hardcover: 360 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (October 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0199291837
ISBN-13: 978-0199291830
Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.8 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,481,731 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
corporate regulation, parallel legal orders, interaction with other social formations, informal legal orders, modern legal orders, settling expectations, unauthorized discretion, modern legal form, achieving social goods, legal pluralists, legal centralism, second methodological principle, first methodological principle, municipal legal system, contextual contingencies, other social rules, distinct social formation, legal architecture, legal pluralism, complying parties, other legal orders, other social mechanisms, claims final authority, informal orders, creative compliance

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Modern Society, New York, European Union, Contours of Compliance, Social Foundations of Modern Legal Form, Change Through Lam, Roman Law, The Social Value of Lair, Social Functions, Falk Moore, Setting the Bounds of Lam-and-society, Discretionary Powers, Shasta County, Lam Prior, Does Lain, European Convention, The Reception of Lair, Policing Pollution, The Concept of Lam, Hart's Postscript, United States, Securing Compliance, Douglass North, United Kingdom, The Blackwell Companion

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Liberal Democracy and the Social Acceleration of Time by William E. Scheuerman in Back Matter

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