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Social Research on Legality: A Reply to Auerbach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Jerome H. Skolnick
Jerome H. Skolnick*
Affiliation:
Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley
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We should all be indebted to Professor Auerbach for having broadened our horizons with the addition of numerous citations. I should like to reassure him that they were not excluded because, as he suggests, I might have “thought none of them had any value for the kind of theory . . . the sociologist of law ought to elaborate.” Many of them are doubtless “relevant” but, as I pointed out early in the article, I omitted all manner of “relevant” literature. I did not regard it as my responsibility to develop a comprehensive bibliography of “relevant” material, but rather to indicate some of the central theoretical concerns and research interests of the developing field of the sociology of law.

Type
Research Article
Information
Law & Society Review , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , November 1966 , pp. 105 - 110
Copyright
Copyright © 1966 by the Law and Society Association

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References

1. C. A. Auerbach, Legal Tasks for the Sociologists, 1 L. & Soc'y. Rev. 92 (1966).

2. Id. at 93.

3. Id. at 94 and n. 19 ff.

4. Id. at 94.

5. P. Selznick, Review of Fuller, “The Morality of Law,” 30 Amer. Soc. Rev. 947–8 (1965).

6. I. Fuller, The Morality of Law 39 (1964).

7. Fuller, ibid.

8. Auerbach, op. cit. supra note 1 at 97.