An Invitation to Law and Social Science

Richard Lempert, Joseph Sanders

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781512809497, 9781512809497
• eBook ISBN: 9781512809503
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Law Theory & Practice
• Index: Law

This innovative work treats law as the set of rules governing how people should act in society, and it demonstrates how the legal system attempts to deter antisocial behavior. Comprised of three sections. the book explores different ways in which law decides issues of responsibility, how cases are adjudicated, and theories of distributive justice and social change. Distinguished by its problem-oriented, topical perspective, An Invitation to Law and Social Science serves as an invaluable book for course in law and society, legal process, and the sociology of law.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• 1 Introduction
• PART I. Desert
• 2 Human Action and Responsibility Rules
• 3 The Answering Process
• 4 Case Logics: Some Determinants and Consequences
• 5 Case Logics, Rule Logics, and Legal Change: The End of Negligence
• PART II. Disputes
• 6 Conflicts and Settlements: The Logic and Fairness of Bargains in a Game Theory Perspective
• 7 Alternative Styles of Dispute Processing
• 8 Creating New Systems: The Limits of Double Institutionalization
• PART III. Distribution
• 9 The Ends of Social Justice: John Rawls and the Distribution of Welfare
• 10 Corporate Actors and Social Justice: Business Corporations, Labor Unions, and the Problems of Collective Action
• 11 Pursuing Equality: Law as a Force for Social Change
• 12 Law Application and the Possibility of Autonomy
• 13 Styles of Law and the Attainment of Social Justice
• 14 The Seamless Web: The Legal Order and Modern Society
• Bibliography
• List of Cases
• Acknowledgments
• Index