The Role of Social Science in the Study of Law: A Fundamental Approach

It offers more specifically, a study in sociology of law which consists of various approaches in the study of law in society. The book empirically examines and theorizes the interaction between law, legal, non-legal institutions and social factors. Areas of socio-legal inquiry covered by the book includes the social development of legal institutions, forms of social control, legal regulation, the interaction between legal cultures, the social construction of legal issues, legal profession and the relation between law and social change. The author asserts that sociology of law has also benefited from and occasionally draws on research conducted within other fields such as comparative law, critical legal studies, jurisprudence, legal theory, law and economics, law and literature.