Western Law
Around 1900 Max Weber outlined his “scientific” method to law, identifying the “authorized rational kind” as a kind of domination, not attributable to non-public authority but to the authority of abstract norms. Formal legal rationality was his time period for the key attribute of the type of coherent and calculable law that was a precondition for modern political developments and the fashionable bureaucratic state. Weber saw this law as having developed in parallel with the expansion of capitalism. Another leading sociologist, Émile Durkheim, wrote in his traditional work The Division of Labour in Society that as society becomes extra advanced, the physique of civil law concerned primarily with restitution and compensation grows at the expense of felony legal guidelines and penal sanctions. Other notable early legal sociologists included Hugo Sinzheimer, Theodor Geiger, Georges Gurvitch and Leon Petrażycki in Europe, and William Graham Sumner in the us
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