Law in Social Theory

Taking a broad view of social theory this book demonstrates the importance of this theory for the study of contemporary law. Through studies of the work of Weber Durkheim Gurvitch Habermas Luhmann Derrida Bourdieu Foucault Schmitt Neumann and others the essays address such fundamental topics as the changing forms of regulation law's relations with morals and beliefs law and democracy and prospects for the rule of law in the context of globalisation.