Juridical concepts–specialized terms used in legal reasoning–have adaptive properties
which allow for their coevolution with the social relations that they describe and constitute …

1 The relationship of legal theory to the social sciences, and notably early modern German
sociology has still to be explored in depth; an example is the role the study of law had …

In the context of the encounter of UK and German socio-legal studies in this issue, this
Article develops preliminary thoughts on a research agenda for the comparative …

Doctrinal–or, as socio-legal scholars refer to it,'black-letter law'–is subject to change over
time. In modern legal systems, such changes in the content of legal norms usually occur …

The aim of this article is to propose a method for creating a more coherent concept of norms–
and to deliver a tentative and open suggestion on how to define norms in a way that might fit …

This chapter presents three essential attributes based on the three dominating scientific
perspectives on norms: law, sociology and social psychology that can be considered to form …

What do we gain from labeling certain norms of social organization law? This question
provides the backdrop against which this chapter will examine the works of Leon Petrażycki …

This chapter highlights the relationships between social and legal norms in general.
Normativity in a socio-legal sense is made up by the combinations between the social and …

Law has two models: an ideological one and an actual one. The former represents the
professional ideology characteristic of modern formal law. Notwithstanding, according to the …

This paper gives an overview of the development of socio-legal thinking in the last two
centuries. It considers scholarship at the intersection of law, economy, and society and is …