Opening book details…
Can I read Law and Social Norms on EtoBox?
Law and Social Norms by ERIC A. POSNER is a law available to read on EtoBox.
What is Law and Social Norms about?
What is the role of law in a society in which order is maintained mostly through social norms, trust, and nonlegal sanctions? Eric Posner argues that social norms are sometimes desirable yet sometimes odious, and that the law is critical to enhancing good social norms and undermining bad ones. But he also argues that the proper regulation of social norms is a delicate and complex task, and that current understanding of social norms is inadequate for guiding judges and lawmakers. What is needed,
Who reads Law and Social Norms?
It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.
Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.
- Author
- ERIC A. POSNER
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674008144
- Category
- law
- Subjects
- Economics, History, Law
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
Other editions & translations
More by ERIC A. POSNER
Browse all works by ERIC A. POSNER
Similar books
- Social Norms — Michael Hechter , Karl-Dieter Opp (2005)
- Norms in a Wired World (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law) — Steven Anthony Hetcher (2004)
- Saving the Neighborhood : Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law, and Social Norms — RICHARD R.BROOKS AND CAROL M.ROSE, Richard Rexford Wayne Brooks, Carol M Rose, Brooks, Richard R. W., (2013)
- Norms and the Law — John N Drobak; Inaugral Conference of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (2006)
- Social Norms and Economic Institutions — edited by Kenneth J. Koford and Jeffrey B. Miller (1991)
- Social Goodness : The Ontology of Social Norms — Charlotte Witt (2023)