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Introduction : recovering sociological jurisprudence -- The nature of legal expertise -- The jurist's role -- Why jurisprudence is not legal philosophy -- Sociology in juristic practice -- Transnational challenges to juristic thought -- Why lawyers need a theory of legal pluralism -- A concept of law for global legal pluralism -- The nature of transnational law -- Transnational legal authority -- A transnational concept of crime -- Legal values in sociological perspective -- Culture as a juristic issue -- Can sociology clarify legal values? -- Human rights and dignity : a Durkheimian perspective -- Legal instrumentalism and popular values -- Conclusion : horizons of sociological jurisprudence

A collection of brand new and revised essays from eminent scholar of public law, Martin Loughlin, that systematizes his work on political jurisprudence - a school of thought that contends the key to understanding the nature of legal order lies in how political authority is constituted

Introduction -- Law and Society : An Overview -- Fundamentals of Law and Society -- Sociologists of Law : Classical and Contemporary -- Criminal Law -- Civil Law -- Administrative Law -- Law and Social Control -- Hunting and Forest Laws -- Are Judges Biased? -- Law School and the Legal Profession

"Niklas Luhmann is recognised as a major social theorist, and his treatise on the sociology of law is a classic text. For Luhmann, law provides the framework of the state, lawyers are the main human resourced for the state, and legal theory provides the most suitable base from which to theorize on the nature of society. He explores the concept of law in the light of a general theory of social systems, showing the important part law plays in resolving fundamental problems a society may face. He then goes on to discuss in detail how modern 'positive' -- as opposed to 'natural' -- law comes to fulfil this function. The work as a whole is not only a contribution to legal sociology, but a major work in social theory. With a revised translation, and a new introduction by Martin Albrow. "--