A Comparative Theory of Dispute Institutions in Society
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4085162 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard L Abel (0000-0002-5197-3086), Richard Abel (0009-0008-4694-285X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 217-347 |
| Publication date | 1974-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Society Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3053029 |
| OpenAlex | W2334736828 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 94 |
| References cited | 150 |
Why study the legal systems of other times or places? Are there reasons beyond an antiquarianism or exoticism that seeks stimulation for a palate jaded by preoccupation with the minutiae of American law? The increased understanding to be gained by such intellectual exploration seems to me similar in origin to the pleasure any of us takes in travel. Differences of physical environment, modes of social intercourse, or patterns of culture awaken us to phenomena which at home are so familiar as to be almost invisible. When we resume our mundane round, the residue of such impressions compels us to recognize the contingency of our own ways, and leads us to look for explanations
Law and economics · Political science · Sociology · Corruption and Economic Development · International Arbitration and Investment Law · Law
Language in the Legal Process
Remembering Sally Engle Merry
Introduction
Legal Pluralism
Looking Backward, Looking Forward
Conservative Conflict and the Reproduction of Capitalism
Don Quixote de la Corte
Neglected elements
Altered States
Toward Reconciliation
Religion and the Law
Myths of the Archaic State
Causes and effects of weak enforcement of environmental sanitation laws in Ghana
A Matter of Maintaining Peace”
Ideological Combat and Social Observation
The Sociological Concept of Law
What is sociology of law? (On law, rules, social control and sociology)
Ancestors in the Law of Moluccans in the Netherlands
Scientific versus folk legal pluralism
What else is sociology of law? Reflection on John Griffiths's What is sociology of law
Growing Up in Law and Society
The Dispute Tree and the Legal Forest
Communication and Contention
Bringing Sociology of Law Back into Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology
Popular Justice in Mozambique
Lawyers, Anthropologists, and the Study of Law
Reconfiguring Law
Legal Reform in China
Critical Empiricism” in American Legal Studies
Choosing the Avenger
Legal Pluralism in Archaic Greece
Law and Inequality
Political Leadership and Legal Change in Zinacantan
The Context of Public Bureaucracies
Political and Psychological Correlates of Conflict Management
Afterword
The "New Formalism" in Disputing and Dispute Processing
Justiças do dialogo
A Tale of Two Courts
Cultural relativism and comparative criminology
Trial Courts in the United States
Institutionalizing Mediation
Dispute Processing by the Philippine Agrarian Court
An Elusive Profession? Lawyers in Society
Alternatives in Dispute Processing
Making Law at The Doorway
Organizations, Decisions, and Courts
The Legal Malaise; or, Justice Observed
Socialpsychological Processes Underlying Attitudes Toward Legal Punishment
The Concept of Laws in Social Science
Law and Development in the Light of Dependency Theory
The Effects of Participants' Ethnicity and Gender on Monetary Outcomes in Mediated and Adjudicated Civil Cases
Complaint as a Problem-Solving Mechanism
Rationality, Legal Change, and Community in Connecticut, 1690-1760
Appeal
Case Processing
Institutionalizing Neighborhood Courts
The Oven Bird's Song
In the Eye of the Beholder
Nature des choses et qualité des personnes. Le Consulat de commerce de Turin au XVIII e siècle
Justice in many Rooms
Litigation in the Federal Courts
Violence and Local State Formation
Going to Court
Creating People's Justice
The Law of the Oppressed
Taking Stock
Regulating Contradictions
Why the "Haves" Come Out Ahead
Influences of Social Organization on Dispute Processing
Thinking Disputes
Assessing the Impact of State Judicial Structures on Citizen Litigiousness
The Development of Comparative Judicial Politics
Social control, structure and practice
Judicial Reform and Rationalization
Civil Litigation in Illinois Trial Courts
Coercion to Restitution
The Coming Redefinitions of Crime
Pourquoi c'est toujours les mêmes qui s'en sortent bien
Using court documents as data
La coopération internationale au prisme du courant de recherche « droit et développement
After Legal Consciousness
Afterword
Courts and Conflict Resolution
Institutions, Civilian Resistance, and Wartime Social Order
Toward a New Legal Common Sense
Les pratiques normatives
Vivre en conflit dans une France sans État
A Contingency Model of the Dispute Formation Process
Pursuing Justice in an Islamic Context
Population Density, Land Tenure, and Law in the New Guinea Highlands
Dispute as critique
Fiction and Reality
Resolution of Social Conflict
Philosophy of Social Science
Justice without trial
Anthropology of law
Custom and government in the Lower Congo.
Facing Mount Kenya
Political Systems and the Distribution of Power
Ideas and Procedures in African Customary Law
Dispute Settlement Without Courts
Law as a Way of Resolving Conflicts
Ethnography and Comparison in Legal Anthropology
Symbolic crusade
The Samburu
Cooperation and competition among primitive peoples.
Police Discretion Not to Invoke the Criminal Process
The analysis of social conflict—toward an overview and synthesis
Government and Politics in Tribal Societies
Wayward servants
Pigs for the Ancestors
Constructing social theories
The ideas in Barotse jurisprudence.
Primitive Rebels, Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Social Change and History
The Theory Of Social And Economic Organization
Law in Culture and Society
Lugbara religion
Conflict
Role Theory
The Law of Primitive Man
Justice And Judgment Among The Tiv
A Black Byzantium
Colonial Policy and Practice
Essays in the Theory of Society
Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society, by Ralf Dahrendorf
Political Anthropology
Rethinking Anthropology
Comparative Political Systems
The Craft of Social Anthropology
Class and Conflict in an Industrial Society
Theoretical Sociology
Commitment and Community
Evolution and Culture
Natural Symbols
The Sources of Law In Tswana Tribal Courts
Kaguru Justice and the Concept of Legal Fictions
The Settlement of Family Disputes in the Kgatla Customary Courts
Neurotic Interaction in Marriage
Tribunes of the People. The past and Future of the New York Magistrates' Courts
A Bibliography of the Customary Laws of Kenya (with Special Reference to the Laws of Wrongs)
The Sociological Imagination
The Road to Reno
Marriage Stability, Divorce, and the Law
Stability and Social Change
Sentencing
Law Without Sanctions
Law and Social Change in Zinacantan
Law and Social Change in Zinacantan
Law Books and Books about Law
Neutrality, Legitimacy, and the Supreme Court
The Social Organization of Arrest
Justice in Moscow
An Operational Theory of Role
Traditional Criminal Procedure in Ethiopia
A Handbook of Tswana Law and Custom
Reforms as experiments
Natal code of native law
Readings in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
The Sociological Tradition
Theory of culture change
Societies
Extension of conflict as a method of conflict resolution among the Suku of the Congo
The Nature of African Customary Law
The Displacement of Traditional Law in Modern India
Law without Precedent
Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law
The Standardizing of Contracts
Excess and Restraint
Morals and Merit
Social Change
Non-Contractual Relations in Business
Legal Institutions in Manchu China
The Social Organization of Legal Contacts
Social Change, Differentiation and Evolution
Customary Laws of Wrongs in Kenya
Law and the Balance of Power
The Kalingas, Their Institutions and Custom Law
Communes USA
The Organization and Laws of Some Bantu Tribes in East Africa
Lawyers in Developing Societies, Especially India
The Practice of Law as Confidence Game Organizational Cooptation of a Profession
Definitions of Law and Empirical Questions
Courtroom Encounters
Some New Concerns of Legal Process Research Within Political Science
Neighbours and Networks. The Idiom of Kinship in Social Action among the Ndendeuli of Tanzania
On Science, Political Science, and Law
Researches in the Sociology of Law
Some Aspects of Civil Procedure and Practice at the Trial Level in Tanshui and Hsinchu from 1789 to 1895
The Kalingas
The Craft of Social Anthropology
The Foundations of Social Anthropology
From Max Weber
| Unique citing works | 94 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,81 |
| Citation span | 1974 - 2025 (52) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 93 |