Law and Society in Transition: Toward Responsive Law

By Philippe Nonet, Philip Selznick, Robert A. Kagan

Book Overview

Explains the primary forms of law as a social, political and normative phenomenon. The authors illustrate the fundamental difference between repressive law, riddled with raw conflict and the accommodation of special interests, and responsive law, the reasoned effort to realize an ideal of polity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765806428
• ISBN13: 9780765806420
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"