Table of Contents

Introduction.
Theory and Method in the Study of Law
1: The Social Basis of Law
2: Law as an Instrument of Social Change
3: Laws as an Integrative Mechanism
4: Law, Power and Ideology
5: The Acceptance and Legitimacy of Law
6: Professional Guardianship of Law
7: Judges, Courts, Disputes
8: The Enforcement and Invocation of Law
9: The Prognosis for Law
Index

About the Author

Roger Cotterrell, LLD, MSc (Soc), Professor of Legal Theory, University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College