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A Post-Westphalian Conception of Law

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Tamanaha Brian, A General Jurisprudence of Law and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xx+263 pages. $60.00 cloth; $22.95 paper.

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William Twining
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Law & Society Review , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , March 2003 , pp. 199 - 258
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In the text and footnotes of this article five books are abbreviated as follows: Brian Tamanaha, A General Jurisprudence of Law and Society (2001) (hereafter GJLS); Brian Tamanaha, Realistic Socio-Legal Theory: Pragmatism and A Social Theory of Law (1997) (hereafter RSLT); H. L. A. Hart, The Concept of Law (2nd ed. 1994) (hereafter CL); William Twining, Globalisation and Legal Theory (2000) (hereafter GLT); and William Twining, The Great Juristic Bazaar (2002) (hereafter GJB). Unreferenced page numbers in the text refer to GJLS.

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