Title: Law, society, and history : themes in the legal sociology and legal history of Lawrence M. Friedman
Abstract: Part I. Overviews and Assessments of Friedman's Work: 1. Lawrence Friedman and the canons of law and society Lauren Edelman 2. 'Then and now': Lawrence Friedman as an analyst of social change Vincenzo Ferrari 3. Lawrence Friedman and the bane of functionalism Victoria Woeste 4. Lawrence M. Friedman's comparative law Thomas Ginsburg Part II. Applications of Concepts, Insights and Methods in Friedman's Work: 5. To influence, shape and globalize: popular legal culture and law Jo Carrillo 6. Exploring legal culture: a few cautionary remarks from comparative research Jose Juan Toharia 7. The travails of total justice Marc Galanter 8. 'Total justice' and political conservativism Robert A. Kagan 9. Friedman on lawyers: a survey Philip Lewis 10. Legal culture and the state in modern Japan: continuity and change Setsuo Miyasawa and Malcolm Feeley 11. The death of contract: dodos and unicorns or sleeping rattlesnakes? Stewart Macaulay 12. Law society and the environment Robert V. Percival 13. American religiosity: why the difference with France? James Whitman 14. Same-sex marriage: situating a modern controversy in historical context Joanna L. Grossman Part III. Facts from the Underground: Digging Legal History out of the Cellar: 15. Historian in the cellar George Fisher 16. The discreet charm of inquisitorial procedure: judges and lawyers in a case of lese majeste in late 18th century Venezuela Rogelio Perez Perdomo 17. 'Keep the negroes out of the classes with the most girls': lynching, standardized testing, and portraiture as support for white supremacy at the University of Texas, 1899-1999 Thomas D. Russell 18. Legal realism goes offshore: debates over rule of law and the control of ocean resources, 1937-53 Harry N. Scheiber Part IV. Perspectives from Other Conceptual Worlds: 19. Sociological jurisprudence - impossible but necessary: the case of contractual networks Gunther Teubner 20. How American legal academics' positions on economic-efficiency analysis, moral philosophy and valid legal argument disserve law and society empirical research Richard Markovits.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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