Law in Modern Society [Paperback]

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

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.