Legal traditions examined as social structures.
Entries
- American Law — the U.S. legal system, examined as a mechanism of social governance
- Legal Positivism — law as social fact, grounded in institutional authority rather than moral truth
- Legal Realism — law as what courts actually do, not what doctrine says they should
- Critical Legal Studies — law as political power concealed behind the appearance of neutral reasoning
- Feminist Legal Theory — how law constructs, reinforces, and sometimes challenges gender hierarchies
- Natural Law — law as constrained by principles that exist prior to human enactment
- Law and Economics — economic analysis of legal rules through efficiency, incentives, and cost-benefit reasoning
- Sociological Jurisprudence — the empirical study of law as a social phenomenon