Law, Society, and Economy: Centenary Essays for the London School of Economics and Political Science 1895-1995

by Richard Rawlings (Editor), Richard Rawlings

Overview

This volume of centenary essays explores a number of related themes that differentiate and characterize the approach of the London School of Economics—that law is one of the social sciences and should be studied in context as a social phenomenon. Fascinating and thought provoking, the volume is an accessible summary of current thought and debate presented by some of today's leading scholars and practitioners.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198262282
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	04/28/1997
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.31(w) x 9.44(h) x 1.02(d)
Lexile:	1570L (what's this?)

About the Author

Richard Rawlings is Reader in Law at the LSE. He was Articles Editor of the Modern Law Review 1991-1996.

Table of Contents

Law, Society and Economy
Distinction and Diversity: Law and the LSE, Richard Rawlings
PART I: Law and Economy
Laski's Law Behind the Law. 1906 to European Labour Law., Lord Wedderburn
The Sanctimony of Contract., Hugh Collins
Codifying Directors' Duties, Mrs Justice Arden
Praising the Professors: Commercial Law and the LSE, Ross Cranston
Andrew Park
PART II: Dimensions of Law
Altera Pars Audiatur: Laws in the Collision of Discourses, Gunther Teubner
Legal Analysis as Institutional Imagination, Roberto Mangabeira Unger
The Reformation in International Law, Judge Rosalyn Higgins
Crime and Politics: Spot the Difference., Stanley Cohen
Legality, Modernity and Ethnicity in Colonial South Africa: An Excursion in the Historical Anthropology of Law, John L. Comaroff
PART III: Courts and Process.
Courts, Constitutions and Fundamental Rights, Sir Anthony Mason
Judges and the Constitution, J.A.G. Griffith
Autonomy and the Rule of Law, Mr Justice Sedley
Legal Services and the Alternatives: The LSE Tradition, Carol Harlow and Cyril Glasser
Access to Justice - Towards the 21st Century, Michael Zander
Judicial Legislation, W.R. Cornish

Editorial Reviews

A collection of essays celebrating the rich history of the LSE, and the influence it has had on the development of legal studies in Britain. These essays examine the LSE's fundamental belief that legal studies be treated as a social phenomenon, and the means by which this once radical stance has become a corner stone of British law. The contributors are distinguished scholars and practitioners, most of whom have either taught, or studied at the LSE. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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