This book assembles essays on legal sociology and legal history by a group of distinguished scholars who have been influenced by Lawrence M. Friedman.

Part I. Overviews and Assessments of Friedman's Work: 1. Lawrence Friedman and the canons of law and society Lauren Edelman; 2. 'Then and now': Lawrence Friedman as an analyst of social change Vincenzo Ferrari; 3. Lawrence Friedman and the bane of functionalism Victoria Woeste; 4. Lawrence M. Friedman's comparative law Thomas Ginsburg; Part II. Applications of Concepts, Insights and Methods in Friedman's Work: 5. To influence, shape and globalize: popular legal culture and law Jo Carrillo; 6. Exploring legal culture: a few cautionary remarks from comparative research Jose Juan Toharia; 7. The travails of total justice Marc Galanter; 8. 'Total justice' and political conservativism Robert A. Kagan; 9. Friedman on lawyers: a survey Philip Lewis; 10. Legal culture and the state in modern Japan: continuity and change Setsuo Miyasawa and Malcolm Feeley; 11. The death of contract: dodos and unicorns or sleeping rattlesnakes? Stewart Macaulay; 12. Law society and the environment Robert V. Percival; 13. American religiosity: why the difference with France? James Whitman; 14. Same-sex marriage: situating a modern controversy in historical context Joanna L. Grossman; Part III. Facts from the Underground: Digging Legal History out of the Cellar: 15. Historian in the cellar George Fisher; 16. The discreet charm of inquisitorial procedure: judges and lawyers in a case of lèse majesté in late 18th century Venezuela Rogelio Pérez Perdomo; 17. 'Keep the negroes out of the classes with the most girls': lynching, standardized testing, and portraiture as support for white supremacy at the University of Texas, 1899-1999 Thomas D. Russell; 18. Legal realism goes offshore: debates over rule of law and the control of ocean resources, 1937-53 Harry N. Scheiber; Part IV. Perspectives from Other Conceptual Worlds: 19. Sociological jurisprudence - impossible but necessary: the case of contractual networks Gunther Teubner; 20. How American legal academics' positions on economic-efficiency analysis, moral philosophy and valid legal argument disserve law and society empirical research Richard Markovits.