SOCIOLOGY 380, Section 1
Fall, 2003
Sociology of Law
In order to assist you in your mastery of the material for this course, the following is a listing of some of the most significant terms and individuals which figure into the Sociology of Law. This list is NOT exhaustive. It should, however, assist you in studying for exams and in organizing your thinking about the many issues, schools of thought and concepts which we shall be covering during the semester.
SIGNIFICANT TERMS
absolute monarch
abuse of process
administrative law
alienation
American Civil War
amicus curiae
anti-nomianism
arbitrator
arraignment
arrest
attorney
authoritarianism
authority
bailiff
balance of powers
bar association
barrister
bureaucracy
canon law
capitalism
casebook
charisma
civil commitment
civil law
civil procedure
civil rights
class
code
command
common law
communism
community
complaint
conflict
congress
consensus
constitution
continental law
contract
court
court of original
court of appeals
court of equity
court of law
criminal law
criminal procedure
critical legal theory
culture
custom
decree
defendant
demurrer
deposition
despot
desuetude
dialectical materialism
dictatorship
discovery
double jeopardy
due process
English Civil War
equal protection
estate
evidence
ex post facto
experimental methods
fascist
federalism
felony
feminism
fiat
fiduciary
folkways
formal law
freedom
functionalism
Gemeinschaft
Gesellschaft
government
habeas corpus
hearing
idealism
ideology
indictment
injunction
insanity
interpretation
interrogatory
“iron cage”
“iron law of oligarchy”
irrational procedures
judge
judicial review
judiciary
jurisdiction
jurisprudence
jury
justice
Koran
latent functions
law
law firm
legal
legislation
legislature
legitimacy
liberty
license
licit
litigation
litigious
lobbyist
M’Naghten Rule
magistrate
Magna Charta
manifest functions
Marxism
materialism
methods
misdemeanor
mores
natural law
nominalism
norms
order
parliament
participant observation
plaintiff
pleadings
police
policy
positive law
positivism
precedent
private law
private practice
privilege
profession
professionalization
property
prosecution
public law
qualitative methods
quantitative methods
questionnaire
racism
rational procedures
realism
regulations
repressive
res judicata
response
restitutive
revolution
right
role
Roman law
rules
sanctions
sentence
Shari’a
social justice
socialism
socialization
society
solicitor
solo practitioner
sovereignty
stare decisis
states’ rights
status
statute
statute of limitations
stratification
strict construction
substantive law
Supreme Court
survey
symbolic interaction
Talmud
Ten Commandments
tort
totalitarianism
tradition
trial
tyranny
ukase
values
verdict
verstehen
victimless crimes
voir dire
wergild
white collar crime
SIGNIFICANT FIGURES
Peter Abelard
St. Thomas Aquinas
Aristotle
Cesare Beccaria
Blackstone
Robert Bork
Louis Brandeis
Benjamin Cardozo
Catherine of Aragon
Coke
Auguste Comte
Confucius
Oliver Cromwell
Ronald Dworkin
Emile Durkheim
Queen Elizabeth I
Frederich Engels
Heinz Eulau
Michel Foucault
Lon Fuller
Marc Galanter
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Mary Ann Glendon
Hammurabi
H.L.A. Hart
Henry VIII
Thomas Hobbes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
John Jay
Thomas Jefferson
Jesus Christ
Justinian
Immanuel Kant
Hans Kelsen
William Kunstler
Cesare Lombroso
Catherine MacKinnon
James Madison
Sir Henry Maine
Bronislaw Malinowski
John Marshall
Thurgood Marshall
Karl Marx
Robert Merton
Mohammed
Baron de Montesquieu
Moses
Laura Nader
Sandra Day O’Connor
Talcott Parsons
Plato
Roscoe Pound
John Rawls
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Friedrich Savigny
Adam Smith
Socrates
Theodora
Clarence Thomas
Nicholas Timasheff
Lawrence Tribe
Austin Turk
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Earl Warren
George Washington
Max Weber
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