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Legal Evolution and the Durkheim Hypothesis: A Reply to Professor Baxi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Richard D. Schwartz
Richard D. Schwartz*
Affiliation:
State University of New York at Buffalo
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At the outset, I wish to thank Professor Upendra Baxi for his critical reading of the Schwartz-Miller article. Several years ago, when we first talked, he expressed a lively interest in the issue to which his present comment is directed (Baxi, 1974). His observations, then and now, have helped me to understand some theoretical and methodological complexities in Durkheim's position which I had earlier missed. I acknowledge with gratitude his scholarly observations and also his courteous manner in presenting them.

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Research Article
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Law & Society Review , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , Summer 1974 , pp. 653 - 668
Copyright
Copyright © The Law and Society Association, 1974.

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