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Law in Many Societies: A Reader, edited by Lawrence M Friedman, Rogelio Perez Perdomo and Manuel Gomez [Stanford Law Books, Stanford, CA, 2011, x + 322pp, ISBN 0804763747, £24.65 (p/bk)] [check p/h/bk prices]

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2012

David Nelken*
Affiliation:
University of Macerata, Italy and University of Cardiff, UK, [email protected].

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Copyright © British Institute of International and Comparative Law 2012

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References

1 For which see Macaulay, S, Friedman, LM and Stookey, J (eds), Law and Society: Readings on the Social Study of Law (WW Norton & Co 1995)Google Scholar; Macaulay, S, Friedman, LM and Mertz, E (eds), Law in Action: A Socio-Legal Reader (Foundation Press 2007)Google Scholar.

2 See Nelken, D, Review article of E Orucu's The Enigma of Comparative Law (2006) 26 Legal Studies 129–35CrossRefGoogle Scholar; D Nelken, ‘Comparative Law and Comparative Legal Studies’ in E Orucu and D Nelken (eds), Comparative Law: A Handbook (Hart 2007) 3–42.

3 R Cotterrell ‘Comparatists and Sociology’ in P Legrand and R Munday (eds), Comparative Legal Studies: Traditions and Transitions (CUP 2003) 131–53.

4 Nelken, D and Feest, J (eds), Adapting Legal Cultures (Hart 2001)Google Scholar.

5 Friedman, LM, ‘The Law and Society Movement’ (1986) 38 StanLRev 763Google Scholar.

6 Friedman, LM, ‘Is there a Modern Legal Culture?’ (1994) 7 Ratio Juris 117CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

7 D Engel, ‘The Uses of Legal Culture in Contemporary Socio-Legal Studies: A Response to Sally Merry’ in D Nelken (ed), Using Legal Culture, special issue of Journal of Comparative Law (2012).

8 MR Ferrarese, ‘An entrepreneurial conception of the law: the American model through Italian eyes’ in D Nelken (ed), Comparing Legal Cultures (Ashgate 1997) 157.

9 See T Ginsburg ‘Lawrence M Friedman's Comparative Law, with notes on Japan’ in D Nelken (ed), Using Legal Culture, special issue of Journal of Comparative Law (2012).

10 See Gessner, V and Nelken, D (eds), European Ways of Law (Hart 2001)Google Scholar.