| This course will explore parameters of legal institutions, variation in legal behavior, and sociological patterns in that variation. We will review the most important theoretical and empirical developments in this field (a.k.a. section or “subdiscipline”), including coverage of how sociologists study law, as well as explanations of the patterns and dynamics of law itself. Those explanations will consider components of law, and alternatives to law, in a variety of social settings (including cross-culturally and historically). |
