Law in Modern Society

Denis Galligan is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He teaches law and society, administrative law and legal and social theory.

• 1. Setting the bounds of law in modern society ; 2. Approaches to law in society ; 3. Law as social rules ; 4. Law prior to rules ; 5. Law as a system of rules ; 6. Social spheres ; 7. The reception of law ; 8. Law and coercion ; 9. Legal pluralism: parallel legal orders ; 10. Extended legal pluralism: informal legal orders ; 11. Does law have social functions? ; 12. The social value of law ; 13. Forms of modern legal orders ; 14. Social foundations of the modern legal form ; 15. Implementation and the architecture of law ; 16. Implementation: the legal and social environment ; 17. Change through the law: the contours of compliance