Title: Introduction to Part 6: Polity, Law, and Constitution
Abstract: The mainstream of American legal academe has traditionally concerned itself with the study of legal doctrine — the parsing of cases, statutes, and constitutions — and with making normative arguments based more on moral philosophy than social scientific evidence. Since the age of Weber and Durkheim there have been scholars who approached law sociologically, studying how law and legal institutions actually interact with other aspects of society, but such external approaches long remained on the fringes of the legal academy. Since the 1970s, however, the “law and society’ movement has become a major force in the American legal academy. Law and society is a highly eclectic movement, but at its core is a commitment to the idea that the law “on the books' and the law “in action’ are two very different animals and worrying about the former without paying serious attention to the latter is to miss the real story.
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Date: 2019-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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