| Overview
From
Scientific Jurisprudence to Legal Sociology: The Eastern-European Tradition
Leon
Petrazycki (1867—1931): “...Petrazycki considers the reality of law to
be found in the factual experiences of law on the part of human beings.”
(p.79)
Nicholas
Timasheff (1886—1970): “The primary function and observable consequence
of law...is to secure equilibrium by the production of uniform and conforming
social behavior in order to achieve peace, security, and organization in
society.” (p.84)
Georges
Gurvitch (1894—1965): “...Gurvitch develops a dialectical perspective on
law that leads to a complex classification of various types of law depending
on various levels of social reality and corresponding types of sociological
analysis.” (p.85)
Pitirim
Sorokin (1889—1970): “Sorokin notes that there may be a discrepancy between
official law, i.e., those law-norms which are obligatory for all members
of society and protected and enforced by the authoritative power of government,
and unofficial law, i.e., law-norms which are not politically overseen
but may be restricted to other groups.” (p.88)
The Sociological
Movement in Law: European Perspectives
Eugen
Ehrlich (1862—1922): “Ehrlich refers to the whole of law dominating social
life, even though it may not have been posited in legal propositions, as
living law. The whole of legal propositions he refers to as juristic law.”
(p.91)
Theodor
Geiger (1891—1952): “Norms are legal norms only when a society is structured
as a state with a central power.” (p.92)
From the
Psychology to the Sociology of Law
“In
the European cultures of social thought, the early days of sociological
thinking on law outside the classics was essentially marked by a theoretical
move towards the development of the sociology of law as a specialty area
from within scientifically inclined currents in jurisprudence.” (p.93)
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Selected
Online Articles (external links)
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Michalina and Margaret Scotford-Norton. 1967. “Legal
Norms and Social Order: Petrazycki, Pareto, Durkheim.” The British
Journal of Sociology 18:269-277,369.
Podgorecki,
Adam. 1980. "Unrecognized
Father of Sociology of Law: Leon Petrazycki." Reflections based on
Jan Gorecki's Sociology and Jurisprudence of Leon Petrazycki. Law &
Society Review 15(1):183-202.
Kojder,
Andrzej. 2006. “Leon
Petrazycki’s Socio-legal Ideas and their Contemporary Continuation.”
Journal of Classical Sociology 6:333-358. [at the publisher's website]
Sorokin,
Pitirim A. 1956. Review
of Law and Morality. Harvard Law Review 69(6):1150-1157.
Timasheff,
Nicolas S. 1938. “The
Sociological Place of Law.” American Journal of Sociology 44(2):206-221.
Timasheff,
Nicholas S. (1939) 2002. An
Introduction to the Sociology of Law. Transaction edition. Limited
preview via Google Books.
Timasheff,
Nicolas S. 1941. "Fundamental
Problems of the Sociology of Law." The American Catholic Sociological
Review 2(4):233-248.
Timasheff,
Nicolas S. 1946. "The
Sociologist's Contribution to the Law." Virginia Law Review 32(4):818-834.
Timasheff
N.S. (1965) 2000. "Where
is the American Sociology of Law Going?" [in Russian]. The Journal
of Sociology and Social Anthropology 3(2):15-17. [at
www.ecsocman.edu.ru; electronic
translation via google]
Schiff,
David. 1981. “N.
S. Timasheff’s Sociology of Law.” The Modern Law Review 44(4):400-421.
McDonald,
Pauline. 1979. "The
Legal Sociology of Georges Gurvitch." British Journal of Law and Society
6(1):24-52.
Ehrlich,
Eugen. (1913) 1962. Fundamental
Principles of the Sociology of Law. New York: Russell & Russell.
Limited preview via Google Books.
Ehrlich,
Eugen. 1922. “The
Sociology of Law.” Harvard Law Review 36(2):130-145.
Hertogh,
Marc. 2004. "A
'European' Conception of Legal Consciousness: Rediscovering Eugen Ehrlich."
Journal of Law and Society 31(4):457-481. [
at the author's website]
Rheinstein,
Max. 1938. "Sociology
of Law: Apropos Moll's Translation of Eugen Ehrlich's Grundlegung der Soziologie
des Rechts." International Journal of Ethics 48(2):232-239.
Partridge,
P.H. 1961. "Ehrlich's
Sociology of Law." Australasian Journal of Philosophy 39(3):201-222.
van
Klink, Bart. 2006. "Facts
and Norms: The Unfinished Debate between Eugen Ehrlich and Hans Kelsen"
[at the SSRN website]
Agersnap
Torben. 2000. "Theodor
Geiger: Pioneer of Sociology in Denmark." Acta Sociologica 43(4):325-330.
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