Sociology of law
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A sub-discipline of sociology, interested in law as a social phenomenon. Sociology of law is also often conceived of as an approach within legal studies stressing the actual social effects of legal institutions, doctrines, and practices and vice versa. In the latter sense it is also referred to as the "law and society" approach, or even broader as "socio-legal studies". As far as legal arguments are based on sociological insight, the term "sociological jurisprudence" is used. This influential approach was started in Europe by scholars like Max Weber, Eugen Ehrlich, Emile Durkheim and Leon Petrażycki and in the US by Roscoe Pound and William Graham Sumner.
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