The sociology of law, a new science, studies human behavior in society in so far as it is
determined by commonly recognized ethico-legal norms, and in so far as it influences them …

Within this framework, Pound spelled out six major areas of a meaningful study of
sociological jurisprudence: first, and most important, he called for a study of the social effects …

Although the term" sociology of law" was first coined by the Italian legal philosopher Dionisio
Anzilotti in 1892, and Eugen Ehrlich's Grundlegung einer Soziologie des Rechts appeared …

The present volume has been planned and prepared in meetings of the Research
Committee for the Sociology of Law of the International Sociological Association at the …

The sqciology of law proceeds upon the assumption that law occurs in a socia1, context and
can only be understood in that context. The word" occurs" is important here because,: from a …

This book proposes the study of norms as a method of explaining human choice and
behaviour by introducing a new scientific perspective. The science of norms may here be …

The Law as Index, Phenomenon, and Elementâ•flConceptual Steps Toward a General
Sociology of Law<link href='#fn1'& Page 1 Sociological Inquiry 49 (I) 5-25 The Law as Index …

In the liberal-democratic societies of the western world, moral order is always problematic.
Unlike the traditional Japanese, we cannot simply draw from our cultural history an …

The eminent French sociological jurist, Maurice Hauriou, once wrote that" a little sociology
leads away from law, while a great deal of sociology leads back to it." He rejected thereby …

THEfocus of any area ofacademic enq uiry may be identified by the way in which
the'importance'of the social phenomenon under examination is presented. In order to …