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Contents
Part I: Law and Sociology
1:Introduction--Explaining Law's Power 3
Law and Power 4
Law and Ideology 7
Law and Critique 14
Law and Community 17
2:The Sociological Concept of Law 23
Differing Uses of a Concept of Law 24
Sociological Concepts of Law: A Sketch of a Typology 28
Discussion 32
3:Law and Sociology: The Constitution and
Confrontations of Disciplines 		41
Intellectual Disciplines and their Relationships 42
Legal Science and its Discontents 50
Sociology and its Confrontations with Law 58
The Past and Future of Sociology of Law 68
4:Sociology of Law in Britain: A Case Study 73
Conceptions of Sociology of Law in Britain 74
The Context of Development of Sociology of Law 77
Phases of Development 83
Present Conditions and Challenges 86
5:Sociological Perspectives on Legal Closure 91
Legal Closure and Legitimation 92
Normative Closure 95
Discursive Closure 100
Autopoiesis 105
Closure and Disclosure 108

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Publication Information: Book Title: Law's Community: Legal Theory in Sociological Perspective. Contributors: Roger Cotterrell - author. Publisher: Clarendon Press. Place of Publication: Oxford. Publication Year: 1996. Page Number: xv.
    
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