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Law in Our Lives : An Introduction
ISBN: 9780195330588 | 0195330587
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 7/28/2005
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Law in Our Lives is a law and society text that provides an interdisciplinary "mapping" of the nature of law as a social institution. The book is student-oriented and highly readable. Themes addressed include: * The meaning of law and legal reasoning. * Law in relation to justice, morality, and religion. * Explaining law and society: schools of jurisprudence and sociolegal theories. * Major legal traditions and systems of law. * Perspectives on comparative law. * A life in the legal profession. * An overview of legal institutions and processes.... MORE
| Foreword | |
| Introduction | |
| Law. Its Meaning and Logic | |
| Law, Justice, and the Moral Order | |
| Jurisprudence and the Study of Law | |
| The Law and Society Movement | |
| Comparative and Historical Perspectives on Law and Society | |
| The Legal Profession | |
| Legal Institutions and Processes. An Overview | |
| Legal Culture and Legal Beha... MORE | |
| Law in Flux. Law and Social Change | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
David O. Friedrichs is Professor of Sociology/Criminal Justice at the University of Scranton (Pennsylvania). He is the author of Trusted Criminals: White Collar Crime in Contemporary Society (1996), and Editor of State Crime, Volumes I and II (1998). He has published some 80 journal articles, book chapters, and essays on such topics as the legitimization of legal order, legal studies, critical criminology, violence, narrative jurisprudence, postmodernism, white-collar crime, and state crime. He served as Editor of the Legal Studies Forum between 1985 and 1989.
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