Law, Society and Community

Richard Nobles is Professor of Law at Queen Mary, University of London. His research interests are in the areas of System Theory as applied to Law; Criminal Appeals, and Miscarriages of Justice. David Schiff is Professor of Law at Queen Mary, University of London. His research interests are in the fields of criminal appeals and miscarriages of justice, and the application of autopoietic systems theory that involves the legal system's relationship to other subsystems of communication. Professors Nobles and Schiff have published widely on their respective areas of interest both independently and as co-authors.

Introduction; I: Socio-Legal Themes; 1: Why Must Legal Ideas Be Interpreted Sociologically? Roger Cotterrell and the Vocation of Sociology of Law; 2: Sociology, History and the ‘Internal' Study of Law; 3: Images of Borders and the Politics and Legality of Identity; 4: Brave New World? The Challenges of Transnational Law and Legal Pluralism to Contemporary Legal Theory; 5: Polity as Constitutional Law's Community; 6: The Politics of The Politics of Jurisprudence; II: Methodological and Jurisprudential Themes; 7: Towards a Fruitful Cooperation between Legal Philosophy, Legal Sociology and Doctrinal Research; 8: Discovering the Econo-Socio-Legal Through a Communal Lens; 9: Culture, Community, Comparison; 10: Law, Community and the 2011 London Riots; 11: ‘No Justice, No Peace!' Conceptualizing Legal Alienation in the Aftermath of the Trayvon Martin Case; 12: Three Concepts of Law and the Lost Art of Legislation; 13: The Sociology of The Politics of Jurisprudence; III: Globalization, Cultural and Comparative Law Themes; 14: The Sociology of International Law; 15: From Legal Pluralism to Global Legal Pluralism; 16: Legal Culture and Legal Transplants; 17: Keeping Civility in its Place; 18: Why Are Americans Originalist?; 19: The Rule of Law After the Short Twentieth Century