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Contents: Introduction Part I Methodology: Collaborations and Disputes: The Concept of Law and social theory, Martin Krygier Legal theory and social theory, Kim Lane Scheppele An analytical map of social scientific approaches to the concept of law, Brian Z. Tamanaha Why must legal ideas be interpreted sociologically?, Roger Cotterrell Analytical jurisprudence versus descriptive sociology revisited, Nicola Lacey Legal research and the social sciences, Christopher McCrudden Is law really a social science? A view from comparative law, Geoffrey Samuel. Part II Common Problems: Modes of Explanation of Behaviour: How the law thinks: towards a constructivist epistemology of law, Gunther Teubner Law and spontaneous order: Hayek's contribution to legal theory, A.I. Ogus The normativity of law, Lewis A. Kornhauser Using the concept of legal culture, David Nelken The law as social practice: are shared activities at the foundations of law?, Matthew Noah Smith. Part III Common Objects: Modes of Explanation of Legal Phenomena: Law as tradition, Martin Krygier Language, law, and social meanings: linguistic/anthropological contributions to the study of law, Elizabeth Mertz Mute law, Rodolfo Sacco Social science and diffusion of law, William Twining Understanding legal pluralism: past to present, local to global, Brian Z. Tamanaha Name index.
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