There currently does not exist what can be called an economic sociology of law-that is, a
sociological analysis of the role of law in economic life. Before trying to outline what such an …

For the rational study of the law the black-letter man may be the man of the present, but the
man of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics. Oliver Wendell …

As the above quotes by Charles Schultze and Paul Hirsch et al. suggest, the" sister
disciplines" of economics and sociology have developed in very different ways and with no …

An economist who talks about unified theory to lawyers and social scientists gets welcomed
rather like the British expedition to Afghanistan in 1840. The Afghanistanis preferred to fight …

The sociology of law appears to be a weak field in the United States, in comparison to other
indisciplinary fields of legal study, notably economic analysis of law. Although American …

This book brings together a number of articles, for the most part already pub lished, that
develop a contemporary institutionalist approach to the study of the economic role of …

As lawyers concerned with the regulation of economic activity, we applaud the recognition in
Professor Charles Goodhart's recent Chorley lecture that much of the 'law and economics' of …

The nineteenth century was an age of systematic legal theory, but theory of the sort we now
describe as “conceptualist” or “formalistic.” As many rules as possible were to be deduced …

From its beginnings in the late nineteenth century, institutional economics has been
concerned with the analysis of the interrelations between legal and economic processes …

The principal intellectual foundation of" law and economics" has been its relative success in
illuminating two fundamental questions: First, what effects do legal rules have upon society …