Socio-legal Studies Flashcards
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What is socio-legal studies?
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looking at law from a sociological perspective, focusing on how law interacts with human society.
2
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History of SLS
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Started out in the US as Law & Society with an exclusive focus to describe what is happening.
Becomes prominent in the UK after where it is known as socio-legal studies (SLS)
3
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Defining SLS
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analysing law both theoretically and empirically, as a social phenomenon.
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Methodology of SLS
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models and causal analysis
