Includes bibliographical references and index.

Law and sociology / Michael Freeman -- From 'living law' to the 'death of the social'-sociology in legal theory / Roger Cotterrell -- A sociology of jurisprudence / Richard Nobles and David Schiff -- The idea of sociology of law and its relation to law and to sociology / John Griffiths -- The pure theory of law and interpretive sociology-a basis for interdisciplinarity?/ Hamish Ross -- When 'law and sociology' is not enough : transdisciplinarity and the problem of complexity / Julian Webb -- Durkheim in China / Tim Murphy -- Law and sociology : the Petrażyckian perspective / Krzysztof Motyka -- Social dynamics of regulatory interactions : an exploration of three sociological perspectives / Bettina Lange -- Law in society : a unifying power or a source of conflict? / Daphne Barak-Erez -- The place of legal culture in the sociology of law / Lawrence M. Friedman -- Rethinking legal culture / David Nelken -- 'Pigs in space' : geographic separatism in multicultural societies / Issachar Rosen-Zvi -- Freedom and subjectivity in modern society : re-reading Hegel's Philosophy of right / Robert Fine and Rolando Vázquez -- Notes on the methodology debate in contemporary jurisprudence : why sociologists might be interested / Dennis Patterson -- The use of law / Iain Stewart -- Are small-town lawyers positivist about the law? / James Marshall -- Law, norms, and lay tribunals / Joseph Sanders -- The regulation of computer-implemented inventions by patent law : a critique of decentralized governance techniques / Katerina Sideri -- Cultural globalization and public policy : exclusion of foreign law in the global village / Mohammed S. Abdel Wahab -- Cosmopolitan law, agency, and narrative / David Hirsh -- The case for a sociology of Roman law / Janne Pölönen -- 'Social perceptions of law after communism' : a Polish case study / Bogusia Puchalska -- Sociology of law for legal education-Italian experiences / Vincenzo Ferrari -- The socio-legal construction of the 'best interests of the child' : law's autonomy, sociology, and family law / Robert van Krieken -- From parental responsibility to parenting responsibility / Helen Reece.