Law As a Social Institution.

Half Title Page -- Half Title verso -- Title Page -- Title verso -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Note on Abbreviations -- 1. An Opportunity to Reflect -- An opportunity to reflect -- Issues explored in this book -- A point of departure -- 2. Max Weber's Science of Social Action -- Max Weber as social and legal theorist -- Philosophical influences in Weber -- Max Weber's science of social action -- Towards a sociological perspective on legal theory -- 3. Hart's Nucleic Expository Theory -- Hart's approach to theory -- The concept of Law: Hart's nucleic expository theory -- A basis for critique -- 4. Three Gordian Knots -- Three Gordian Knots -- First Gordian Knot: The problem of perspective -- Second Gordian Knot: The problem of "reductionism" to legal rules -- Third Gordian Knot: The problematic tendency to obscure relationality -- The three Gordian Knots in retrospect -- 5. Perspectives Redefined -- The first Gordian Knot revisited -- The sociologically inclined jurist -- Iudex as an ideal type -- The official world view -- 6. "Reductionism" Reassessed -- The second Gordian Knot revisited -- Normativity in action -- Social action and legal norms -- Developing legal relationality -- 7. Relationality Reconsidered -- The second and third Gordian Knots revisited -- The jural relation -- Legal relationships of social power -- A basic conceptual unit -- 8. Towards a Critical Legal Positivism -- Outline of a sociological perspective -- Towards a critical legal positivism -- Index.

This book develops the rudiments of a sociological perspective on state law and legal theory drawing upon Max Weber's writings.

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