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Sociology of law

Index Sociology of law

The sociology of law (or legal sociology) is often described as a sub-discipline of sociology or an interdisciplinary approach within legal studies. [1]

92 relations: Adam Podgórecki, American Bar Foundation, Austin Sarat, Autopoiesis, Émile Durkheim, Behaviorism, Bill Felstiner, Bronisław Malinowski, Capitalism, Carol Smart, Comparative law, Criminology, Critical legal studies, Cultural anthropology, Damages, David Morgan (sociologist), David Nelken, David Schiff, Deconstruction, Differentiation (sociology), Donald Black (sociologist), Economic globalization, Empirical legal studies, Erhard Blankenburg, Eugen Ehrlich, Feminism, Francisco Varela, Georges Gurvitch, Globalization, Hans Kelsen, Henry James Sumner Maine, Humberto Maturana, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Jürgen Habermas, Jean Carbonnier, John Eekelaar, Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, Jurisprudence, Law, Law & Society Review, Law and economics, Law and literature, Law and Society Association, Lawrence M. Friedman, Legal culture, Legal nihilism, Legal pluralism, Legal positivism, Legal profession, Leon Petrazycki, ..., Louis Brandeis, Mavis Maclean, Max Weber, Michel Foucault, Neo-Marxism, Nicholas Timasheff, Nihilism, Niklas Luhmann, Panthéon-Assas University, Per Stjernquist, Philip Selznick, Pierre Bourdieu, Political science, Postmodernism, Psychology, Pure sociology, Rational-legal authority, Regulation, Renato Treves, Research Committee on Sociology of Law, Restitution, Richard Abel (lawyer), Roger Cotterrell, Roscoe Pound, Social anthropology, Social change, Social control, Social policy, Social science, Sociology, Stanford Law Review, Steffen Roth, Symbolic interactionism, Talcott Parsons, The Division of Labour in Society, Theodor Geiger, University of Alabama School of Law, University of Oxford, Vilhelm Aubert, Volkmar Gessner, William Graham Sumner, Yale Law Journal. Expand index (42 more) »

Adam Podgórecki

Adam Podgórecki (1925–1998) is an internationally renowned legal sociologist and one of the founders of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL).

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American Bar Foundation

The American Bar Foundation (ABF) is an independent, nonprofit national research institute established in 1952 and located in Chicago.

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Austin Sarat

Austin Sarat (born November 2, 1947) is William Nelson Cromwell professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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Autopoiesis

The term autopoiesis refers to a system capable of reproducing and maintaining itself.

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Émile Durkheim

David Émile Durkheim (or; April 15, 1858 – November 15, 1917) was a French sociologist.

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Behaviorism

Behaviorism (or behaviourism) is a systematic approach to understanding the behavior of humans and other animals.

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Bill Felstiner

William L. F. Felstiner (born December 14, 1929), usually known as Bill Felstiner, is a socio-legal scholar.

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Bronisław Malinowski

Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (7 April 1884 – 16 May 1942) was a Polish-British anthropologist, often considered one of the most important 20th-century anthropologists.

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Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system based upon private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

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Carol Smart

Carol Christine Smart CBE (born 20 December 1948) is a feminist sociologist and academic at the University of Manchester.

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Comparative law

Comparative law is the study of differences and similarities between the law of different countries.

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Criminology

Criminology (from Latin crīmen, "accusation" originally derived from the Ancient Greek verb "krino" "κρίνω", and Ancient Greek -λογία, -logy|-logia, from "logos" meaning: “word,” “reason,” or “plan”) is the scientific study of the nature, extent, management, causes, control, consequences, and prevention of criminal behavior, both on the individual and social levels.

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Critical legal studies

Critical legal studies (CLS) is a school of critical theory that first emerged as a movement in the United States during the 1970s.

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Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans.

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Damages

In law, damages are an award, typically of money, to be paid to a person as compensation for loss or injury.

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David Morgan (sociologist)

David Hopcraft John Morgan (born 1937), known as David (H. J.) Morgan, is a British sociologist, a former President of the British Sociological Association (1997–1999) and editor of the association's journal Sociology.

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David Nelken

David Nelken is the Distinguished Professor of Legal Institutions and Social Change (Professore Ordinario, di chiara fama) Faculty of Political Science, University of Macerata and the Distinguished Visiting Research Professor, Faculty of Law, Cardiff University.

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David Schiff

David Schiff (born August 30, 1945 in New York City) is an American composer, writer and conductor whose music draws on elements of jazz, rock, and klezmer styles, showing the influence of composers as diverse as Stravinsky, Mahler, Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy and Terry Riley.

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Deconstruction

Deconstruction is a critique of the relationship between text and meaning originated by the philosopher Jacques Derrida.

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Differentiation (sociology)

Differentiation is a term in system theory (found in sociology.) From the viewpoint of this theory, the principal feature of modern society is the increased process of system differentiation as a way of dealing with the complexity of its environment.

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Donald Black (sociologist)

Donald Black (born 1941) is University Professor of the Social Sciences at the University of Virginia.

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Economic globalization

Economic globalization is one of the three main dimensions of globalization commonly found in academic literature, with the two others being political globalization and cultural globalization, as well as the general term of globalization.

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Empirical legal studies

Empirical legal studies (ELS) is an approach to the study of law, legal procedure, and legal theory through the use of empirical research.

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Erhard Blankenburg

Erhard Blankenburg (October 30, 1938 – March 28, 2018) was a German sociologist, specializing in the sociology of law.

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Eugen Ehrlich

Eugen Ehrlich (14 September 1862 – 2 May 1922) was an Austrian legal scholar and sociologist of law.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes.

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Francisco Varela

Francisco Javier Varela García (September 7, 1946 – May 28, 2001) was a Chilean biologist, philosopher, and neuroscientist who, together with his teacher Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology, and for co-founding the Mind and Life Institute to promote dialog between science and Buddhism.

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Georges Gurvitch

Georges Gurvitch (Гео́ргий Дави́дович Гу́рвич; November 11, 1894, Novorossiysk – December 12, 1965, Paris) was a Russian-born French sociologist and jurist.

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Globalization

Globalization or globalisation is the process of interaction and integration between people, companies, and governments worldwide.

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Hans Kelsen

Hans Kelsen (October 11, 1881 – April 19, 1973) was an Austrian jurist, legal philosopher and political philosopher.

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Henry James Sumner Maine

Sir Henry James Sumner Maine, (15 August 1822 – 3 February 1888), was a British comparative jurist and historian.

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Humberto Maturana

Humberto Maturana (born September 14, 1928, in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean biologist.

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International Institute for the Sociology of Law

The International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) in Oñati is the only international establishment which is entirely devoted to teaching and promoting the sociology of law, socio-legal studies, and law and society research.

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Jürgen Habermas

Jürgen Habermas (born 18 June 1929) is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism.

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Jean Carbonnier

Jean Carbonnier (1908–2003) was one of the most important French jurists of the 20th century.

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John Eekelaar

John Eekelaar FBA (born 2 July 1942) is a South African former academic specialising in family law.

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Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law

The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law (formerly African Law Studies) is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal focusing on all aspects of legal pluralism and unofficial law.

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Jurisprudence

Jurisprudence or legal theory is the theoretical study of law, principally by philosophers but, from the twentieth century, also by social scientists.

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Law

Law is a system of rules that are created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior.

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Law & Society Review

Law & Society Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of law and society, which is part of the larger field known as the sociology of law.

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Law and economics

Law and economics or economic analysis of law is the application of economic theory (specifically microeconomic theory) to the analysis of law that began mostly with scholars from the Chicago school of economics.

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Law and literature

The law and literature movement focuses on the interdisciplinary connection between law and literature.

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Law and Society Association

The Law and Society Association (LSA), founded in 1964, is a group of scholars from many fields and countries who share a common interest in the place of law in social, political, economic and cultural life.

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Lawrence M. Friedman

Lawrence M. Friedman (born April 2, 1930) is an American law professor, historian, expert in American legal history, and author of nonfiction and fiction books.

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Legal culture

Legal cultures are described as being temporary outcomes of interactions and occur pursuant to a challenge and response paradigm.

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Legal nihilism

Legal nihilism is negative attitude toward law.

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Legal pluralism

Legal pluralism is the existence of multiple legal systems within one (human) population and/or geographic area.

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Legal positivism

Legal positivism is a school of thought of analytical jurisprudence, largely developed by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century legal thinkers such as Jeremy Bentham and John Austin.

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Legal profession

Legal profession is a profession, and legal professionals study, develop and apply law.

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Leon Petrazycki

Leon Petrazycki (Polish: Leon Petrażycki; Russian: Лев Иосифович Петражицкий Lev Iosifovich Petrazhitsky; 13 April 1867 in Vitebsk Governorate15 May 1931 in Warsaw) was a Polish philosopher, legal scholar and sociologist.

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Louis Brandeis

Louis Dembitz Brandeis (November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939.

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Mavis Maclean

Mavis Maclean (born 31 December 1943), CBE, FRSA, FAcSS has carried out socio-legal research at Oxford since 1974, and in 2001 founded the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy (OXFLAP).

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Max Weber

Maximilian Karl Emil "Max" Weber (21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920) was a German sociologist, philosopher, jurist, and political economist.

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Michel Foucault

Paul-Michel Foucault (15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984), generally known as Michel Foucault, was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, and literary critic.

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Neo-Marxism

Neo-Marxism is a broad term encompasing twentieth-century approaches that amend or extend Marxism and Marxist theory, typically by incorporating elements from other intellectual traditions such as critical theory, psychoanalysis, or existentialism (in the case of Jean-Paul Sartre).

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Nicholas Timasheff

Nicholas Sergeyevitch Timasheff (Никола́й Серге́евич Тима́шев) (November 9, 1886 – March 9, 1970) was a Russian sociologist, professor of jurisprudence and writer.

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Nihilism

Nihilism is the philosophical viewpoint that suggests the denial or lack of belief towards the reputedly meaningful aspects of life.

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Niklas Luhmann

Niklas Luhmann (December 8, 1927 – November 6, 1998) was a German sociologist, philosopher of social science, and a prominent thinker in systems theory, who is considered one of the most important social theorists of the 20th century.

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Panthéon-Assas University

Panthéon-Assas University (Université Panthéon-Assas ynivɛʁsite pɑ̃teɔ̃ asas, also referred to as "Assas" asas, "Paris II" paʁi dø, or "Sorbonne Law School") is a public university in Paris, France.

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Per Stjernquist

Per Sternquist (1912–2005) was a Swedish law professor who was almost single-handedly responsible for establishing the teaching of the new field of sociology of law in Sweden from the 1960s.

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Philip Selznick

Philip Selznick (January 8, 1919 – June 12, 2010) was professor of sociology and law at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Pierre Bourdieu

Pierre Felix Bourdieu (1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist, anthropologist, philosopher, and public intellectual.

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Political science

Political science is a social science which deals with systems of governance, and the analysis of political activities, political thoughts, and political behavior.

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Postmodernism

Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late-20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism and that marked a departure from modernism.

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Psychology

Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought.

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Pure sociology

Like rational choice theory, conflict theory, or functionalism, pure sociology is a sociological paradigm — a strategy for explaining human behavior.

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Rational-legal authority

Rational-legal authority (also known as rational authority, legal authority, rational domination, legal domination, or bureaucratic authority) is a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a ruling regime is largely tied to legal rationality, legal legitimacy and bureaucracy.

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Regulation

Regulation is an abstract concept of management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends.

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Renato Treves

Renato Treves (1907–1992) was born in Turin, Italy of a Jewish family.

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Research Committee on Sociology of Law

Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL) was established in 1962 by William M. Evan (University of Pennsylvania) and Adam Podgórecki (University of Warsaw), with the support of Renato Treves (University of Milan) during the Congress of the International Sociological Association (ISA), which was held in Weshington D. C. Treves was elected as the first president of the RCSL, Podgórecki as the vice-president and Evan as the Secretary.

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Restitution

The law of restitution is the law of gains-based recovery.

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Richard Abel (lawyer)

Richard L. Abel (born September 13, 1941) is a Professor of Law (now emeritus), a specialist in African Law Studies and a renowned socio-legal scholar.

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Roger Cotterrell

Roger Cotterrell, FBA is the Anniversary Professor of Legal Theory at Queen Mary University of London and was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005.

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Roscoe Pound

Nathan Roscoe Pound (October 27, 1870 – June 30, 1964) was a distinguished American legal scholar and educator.

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Social anthropology

Social anthropology or anthroposociology is the dominant constituent of anthropology throughout the United Kingdom and Commonwealth and much of Europe (France in particular), where it is distinguished from cultural anthropology.

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Social change

Social change is an alteration in the social order of a society.

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Social control

Social control is a concept within the disciplines of the social sciences.

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Social policy

Social policy is a term which is applied to various areas of policy, usually within a governmental or political setting (such as the welfare state and study of social services).

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Social science

Social science is a major category of academic disciplines, concerned with society and the relationships among individuals within a society.

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Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture.

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Stanford Law Review

The Stanford Law Review (SLR) is a legal journal produced independently by Stanford Law School students.

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Steffen Roth

Steffen Roth (born August 8, 1976 in Würzburg) is an academic and author on management, economics, and sociology.

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Symbolic interactionism

Symbolic interactionism is a sociological theory that develops from practical considerations and alludes to people's particular utilization of dialect to make images, normal implications, for deduction and correspondence with others.

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Talcott Parsons

Talcott Parsons (December 13, 1902 – May 8, 1979) was an American sociologist of the classical tradition, best known for his social action theory and structural functionalism.

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The Division of Labour in Society

The Division of Labour in Society (De la division du travail social) is the doctoral dissertation of the French sociologist Émile Durkheim, published in 1893.

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Theodor Geiger

Theodor Julius Geiger (9 November 1891 in Munich, Germany - 16 June 1952) was a German socialist, lawyer and sociologist who studied Sociology of Law, social stratification and social mobility, methodology, and intelligentsia, among other things.

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University of Alabama School of Law

The University of Alabama School of Law (also known as Alabama Law) located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama is a nationally ranked top-tier law school (First Tier) and the only public law school in the state.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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Vilhelm Aubert

Johan Vilhelm Aubert (7 June 1922 – 19 July 1988) was an influential Norwegian sociologist.

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Volkmar Gessner

Volkmar Gessner (9 October 1937 – 8 November 2014) was a German university professor and a socio-legal scholar.

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William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner (October 30, 1840 – April 12, 1910) was a classical liberal American social scientist.

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Yale Law Journal

The Yale Law Journal is a student-run law review affiliated with the Yale Law School.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology_of_law

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