Law and the Social Sciences

by Leon Lipson and Stanton Wheeler

The notion of law as a social phenomenon would have surprised educators and scholars a century ago. For them, law was a science and the library was the ultimate source of all legal knowledge. Our contemporary willingness to see law in a social context--reflecting social relations, for example, or precipitating social changes--is a relatively recent development, spurred during the last quarter century by the work of a generation of scholars (mostly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871545284
• ISBN13: 9780871545282
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 748 Pages
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 10.0"