Law and Sociology contains a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and sociology. The volume includes amongst other topics, a sociology of jurisprudence, an examination of the social dynamics of regulatory interactions, and a consideration of the place of legal culture in the sociology of law.

Law and Sociology ; From "Living Law" to the "Death of the Social" - Sociology in Legal Theory ; A Sociology of Jurisprudence ; The Idea of Sociology of Law and Its Relation To Law and To Sociology ; The Pure Theory of Law and Interpretive Sociology or A Basis for Interdisciplinarity ; When 'Law and Sociology' is not Enough: Transdisciplinarity and the Problem of Complexity ; Social dynamics of regulatory interactions: An exploration of three sociological perspectives ; Law in Society: A Unifying Power or a Source of Conflict? ; The Use of Law ; Notes on the Methodology Debate in Contemporary Jurisprudence: Why Sociologists Might Be Interested? ; Law and Sociology: The Petrazyckian Perspective ; Durkheim in China ; When The Law is Emancipatory: The Power of Law in the Social Movements' Struggles ; Law, Norma and Lay Tribunals: Economics, Sociology and the Re-emergence of Norms in the Study of Law ; Sociology of Roman Law ; The Place of Legal Culture in the Sociology of Law ; The European Commission, Phronetic Judgement and the Regulation of Computer-Implemented Inventions by Patent Law ; Cosmopolitan Law: Agency and Narrative ; The Socio-Legal Construction of the 'Best Interest of the Child': Law's Autonomy, Sociology and Family Law ; From Parental Responsibility to Parenting Responsibility ; Social perceptions of Law After Communism ; 'Pigs in Space': Geographic Separation in Multicultural Societies ; Cultural Globalization and Public Policy: Exclusion of Law In The Global Village ; Are Small-Town Lawyers Positivist About the Law? ; Sociology of Law for Legal Education: Italian Experiences