An introduction to a range of different approaches to the study of law.

All three editors teach in the Law School at the University of Melbourne. ROSEMARY HUNTER is the author of Indirect Discrimination in the Workplace (1992); RICHARD INGLEBY is a Senior Associate with Gadens Ridgeway and the author of Family Law and Society (1993); and RICHARD JOHNSTONE is co-author with M. Le Brun of The Quiet (R)evolution (1994).

Acknowledgments
Tables and figures
Contributors
Introduction - Rosemary Hunter, Richard Ingleby and Richard Johnstone
PART ONE
1 Law and history in black and white - Penelope Mathew, Rosemary Hunter and Hilary Charlesworth
PART TWO
2 Themes in liberal legal and constitutional theory - David Wood, Rosemary Hunter and Richard Ingleby
3 Economic and sociological approaches to law - Richard Johnstone
4 Objecting to objectivity: the radical challenge to legal liberalism - Gerry J. Simpson and Hilary Charlesworth
PART THREE
5 Explaining law reform - Rosemary Hunter and Richard Johnstone
6 Invocation and enforcement of legal rules - Richard Ingleby and Richard Johnstone
7 Judicial decision making - Richard Ingleby and Richard Johnstone
Notes
Bibliography
Index