Explains the primary forms of law as a social, political and normative phenomenon. The authors illustrate the fundamental difference between repressive law, riddled with raw conflict and the accommodation of special interests, and responsive law, the reasoned effort to realize an ideal of polity.

Philip Selznick, Philippe Nonet, Robert A. Kagan

I: Jurisprudence and Social Science; II: Repressive Law; III: Autonomous Law; IV: Responsive Law