Law in Brief Encounters

by W. Michael Reisman

Even in our most casual encounters with strangers--when we are looking at each other, talking, or standing in line--legal systems with elaborate codes, authorized exceptions, and procedures for sanctioning deviance operate with a remarkable degree of success. In this pathbreaking book, Michael Reisman describes how law is an integral and indispensable part of every social interaction. The private sphere or civic order that the liberal state is committed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300075693
• ISBN13: 9780300075694
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"