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Resistance to Innovation in the Sociology of Law: A Response to Greenberg

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Allan V. Horwitz
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Law & Society Review , Volume 17 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Psychology and Law , 1983 , pp. 369 - 384
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Copyright © 1983 The Law and Society Association.

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I am grateful to M.P. Baumgartner, Donald Black, Mark Cooney, and Calvin Morrill for providing me with numerous helpful suggestions for revisions in an earlier draft of this paper.

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