Based on a detailed examination of New York case law, this pathbreaking book shows how law, politics, and ideology in the state changed in tandem between 1920 and 1980.

This is the fortieth anniversary edition of a classic of law and society, updated with extensive new commentary.

Contrary to traditional theories of statutory interpretation, which ground statutes in the original legislative text or intent, legal scholar William Eskridge argues that statutory interpretation changes in response to new political ...

This new edition includes a revised version of the original text, preceded by an extended essay in which its author discusses what is happening now and what should happen next in legal thought.

Lasswell singles out the interviewing technique of the psychiatrist, what he calls -the insight interview- in many of these essays.