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By Lawrence Solum
Brian Z. Tamanaha (St. John's University - School of Law) has posted Law and Society (A COMPANION TO PHILOSOPHY OF LAW AND LEGAL THEORY, 2ND EDITION, Dennis Patterson, ed., Blackwell Publishers, 2009) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This essay provides a concise overview of "Law and Society" which covers historical and contemporary thought on the subject. The sections of the essay are: A mirror of society that functions to maintain social order; law as social ordering; the institutional form of law; the semi-autonomy of legal knowledge and processes; legal pluralism; law and society in the twenty-first century-law as an instrument.
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Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on February 20, 2009 (boomark / email).

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