Brian Z. Tamanaha is Associate Professor at St. John's University School of Law, New York. He was a public defender in Hawaii and an assistant attorney-general in Micronesia.

by any criterion an excellent book ... Tamanaha has produced a work which should feature as a core text in jurisprudence courses.

• Foreword ; Introduction: The State of Socio-Legal Studies ; Pragmatism and Realistic Socio-Legal Studies ; Behaviourism and Interpretavism in Complement ; An Analytical Map of the Concept of Law ; A Social Theory of Law by Comparison to Legal Positivism ; The Internal-External Distinction and the Notion of a Practice ; Studies of Judicial Decision Making ; Legal Theory and the Practice of Judging ; Three Last Words

Brian Z. Tamanaha is Associate Professor at St. John's University School of Law, New York. He was a public defender in Hawaii and an assistant attorney-general in Micronesia.

by any criterion an excellent book ... Tamanaha has produced a work which should feature as a core text in jurisprudence courses.

• Foreword ; Introduction: The State of Socio-Legal Studies ; Pragmatism and Realistic Socio-Legal Studies ; Behaviourism and Interpretavism in Complement ; An Analytical Map of the Concept of Law ; A Social Theory of Law by Comparison to Legal Positivism ; The Internal-External Distinction and the Notion of a Practice ; Studies of Judicial Decision Making ; Legal Theory and the Practice of Judging ; Three Last Words

Brian Z. Tamanaha is Associate Professor at St. John's University School of Law, New York. He was a public defender in Hawaii and an assistant attorney-general in Micronesia.

by any criterion an excellent book ... Tamanaha has produced a work which should feature as a core text in jurisprudence courses.

• Foreword ; Introduction: The State of Socio-Legal Studies ; Pragmatism and Realistic Socio-Legal Studies ; Behaviourism and Interpretavism in Complement ; An Analytical Map of the Concept of Law ; A Social Theory of Law by Comparison to Legal Positivism ; The Internal-External Distinction and the Notion of a Practice ; Studies of Judicial Decision Making ; Legal Theory and the Practice of Judging ; Three Last Words