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Author:   Denis Galligan (Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.70cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.40cm
Weight:   0.573kg
ISBN:  

9780199291830

ISBN 10:   0199291837
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   14 September 2006
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1: Setting the bounds of law in modern society 2: Approaches to law in society 3: Law as social rules 4: Law prior to rules 5: Law as a system of rules 6: Social spheres 7: The reception of law 8: Law and coercion 9: Legal pluralism: parallel legal orders 10: Extended legal pluralism: informal legal orders 11: Does law have social functions? 12: The social value of law 13: Forms of modern legal orders 14: Social foundations of the modern legal form 15: Implementation and the architecture of law 16: Implementation: the legal and social environment 17: Change through the law: the contours of compliance

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Denis Galligan is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He teaches law and society, administrative law and legal and social theory.

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