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Law and society: an introduction
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ISBN: 0135266084 0135266165 Year: 1977 Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice-Hall

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The republic of choice: law, authority and culture
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ISBN: 0674762606 Year: 1990 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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American law in the 20th century.
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ISBN: 0300091370 0300102992 Year: 2002 Publisher: New Haven (Conn.) Yale university

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Law in America : a short history
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ISBN: 0375506357 Year: 2002 Volume: 10 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Modern Library

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An history of american law
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ISBN: 0671815911 0671528076 Year: 1985 Publisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Macmillan,

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The legal system: a social science perspective
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ISBN: 087154296X 9780871542960 Year: 1975 Publisher: New York Russel Sage Foundation

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The horizontal society
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ISBN: 0300147201 0585363293 9780585363295 9780300147209 0300075456 9780300075458 0300075456 Year: 1999 Publisher: New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press

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Modern technology has radically and irretrievably altered our sense of identity and hence our social, political, and legal life, argues Lawrence M. Friedman in this bold new book. In traditional societies, he explains, relationships and identities were strongly vertical: there was a clear line of authority from top to bottom, and identity was fixed by one's birth or social position. But in modern society, identity and authority have become much more horizontal: people feel freer to choose who they are and to form relationships on a plane of equality.Friedman examines how modern life centers on human identity seen in terms of race, gender, ethnicity, and religion, and how this new way of defining oneself affects politics, social structure, and the law. Our horizontal society, he says, is the product of the mass media-in particular, television-which break down the isolation of traditional life and allow individuals to connect with like-minded others across barriers of space and time. As horizontal groups blossom, loyalties and allegiances to smaller groups fragment what seemed to be the unity of the larger nation. In addition, the media's ability to spread a global mass culture causes a breakdown of cultural isolation that leads to more immigration and heavy pressure on the laws and institutions of citizenship and immigration.


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Dead Hands : A Social History of Wills, Trusts, and Inheritance Law
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ISBN: 0804771081 9780804771085 9780804760362 9780804762090 0804760365 0804762090 Year: 2020 Publisher: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press,

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The law of succession rests on a single brute fact: you can't take it with you. The stock of wealth that turns over as people die is staggeringly large. In the United States alone, some


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Impact
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ISBN: 9780674972469 0674972465 9780674971059 0674971051 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Laws and regulations are ubiquitous, touching on many aspects of individual and corporate behavior. But under what conditions are laws and rules actually effective? A huge amount of recent work in political science, sociology, economics, criminology, law, and psychology, among other disciplines, deals with this question. But these fields rarely inform one another, leaving the state of research disjointed and disorganized. Lawrence M. Friedman finds order in this cacophony. Impact gathers recent findings into one overarching analysis and lays the groundwork for a cohesive body of work in what Friedman labels “impact studies.” The first important factor that has a bearing on impact is communication. A rule or law has no effect if it never reaches its intended audience. The public’s fund of legal knowledge, the clarity of the law, and the presence of information brokers all influence the flow of information from lawmakers to citizens. After a law is communicated, subjects sometimes comply, sometimes resist, and sometimes adjust or evade. Three clusters of motives help shape which reaction will prevail: first, rewards and punishments; second, peer group influences; and third, issues of conscience, legitimacy, and morality. When all of these factors move in the same direction, law can have a powerful impact; when they conflict, the outcome is sometimes unpredictable.


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Crime without punishment : aspects of the history of homicide
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ISBN: 1108588816 1108686672 1108619762 1108427537 1108446280 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In this compelling book, Lawrence M. Friedman looks at situations where killing is condemned by law but not by social norms and, therefore, is rarely punished. He shows how penal codes categorize homicides by degree of intent, which are in turn based on society's sense of moral outrage. Despite being officially defined as murder, many homicides have historically gone unpunished. Friedman looks at early vigilante justice, crimes of passion, murder of necessity, mercy killings, and assisted suicides. In his explorations of these unpunished homicides, Friedman probes what these circumstances tell us about conflicts in social and cultural norms and the interaction of law and society.

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