Around 1900 Max Weber outlined his “scientific” method to law, identifying the “legal rational type” as a sort of domination, not attributable to private authority however to the authority of abstract norms. Formal authorized rationality was his time period for the key characteristic of the kind 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 growth of capitalism. Other notable early legal sociologists included Hugo Sinzheimer, Theodor Geiger, Georges Gurvitch and Leon Petrażycki in Europe, and William Graham Sumner in the us

Learn extra in regards to the steps GW and GW Law are taking to ensure the well being and security of our group, together with protocols for vaccinations, masking, and building and classroom entry. In Season three of “Testimony,” Dean Dayna Bowen Matthew interviews GW Law faculty consultants …