The Powers of Law: A Comparative Analysis of Sociopolitical Legal Studies

ISBN-13: 9781108482714 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 238 str.

Mauricio Garcia-Villegas

Opis

Garcia-Villegas compares the scholarship on the relationship between law, political power, and society in the United States and France.

Spis treści

1. A sociopolitical understanding of law; 2. The symbolic uses of law: at the heart of a political sociology of law; 3. Legal fields and the social sciences in France and the United States; 4. Sociopolitical legal studies in the United States; 5. Sociopolitical legal studies in France; 6. Conclusion: the present and future of sociopolitical legal studies.