In the Winter of Our Discontent
Law, Anti-Law, and Social Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12795014 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Galanter (0000-0002-1978-4453, University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-16 |
| Publication date | 2006-07-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Law and Social Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1550-3585 • E-ISSN: 1550-3631 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.lawsocsci.2.081805.105946 |
| OpenAlex | W2097932909 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 34 |
Law and social science took shape as a field of inquiry in the third quarter of the past century, an era of expanding rights and remedies and optimism about the capacity of law, government, and social science to address intractable social problems. It put down vigorous institutional roots in organizations, publications, teaching, and research that enabled it to survive the erosion of the reformist soil that nurtured it and to adapt to a new era in which the prevailing common sense is a jaundiced view that emphasizes the weaknesses, costs, and dangers of law. A significant body of research has rebutted many of the components of the jaundiced view, but with little effect on the prevailing folklore. The legal system's distinctive susceptibility to such misreadings and misrepresentations is aggravated by a late and weak development of empirical knowledge and a lack of credible guardians of its knowledge base
Government (linguistics · Law and economics · Political science · Sociology · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems · Legal and Constitutional Studies · Philosophy
Tournament of lawyers
The confidence gap
Human inference
The Law and Society Canon
The Common Place of Law
The Rights Revolution
Distorting the Law
Adversarial Legalism
Law after Society
Coming of Age
Seeding Science, Courting Conclusions
Business on Trial
Human Inference and Judgment
The Confidence Gap
Justice and Reform
The Legalist Reformation
The New High Priests
Law Abounding
Newspaper Coverage of Automotive Product Liability Verdicts
Professional Construction of Law
Lawyers and Consumer Protection Laws
The Practice of Law as Confidence Game Organizational Cooptation of a Profession
Civil Justice and the Poor
Courts and Public Schools
Why the "Haves" Come Out Ahead
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,41 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2023 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |