This collection of socio-legal studies, written by leading theorists and researchers from around the world, offers original, perceptive and critical contributions to ideas and theories that have been expounded by Roger Cotterrell over a long and distinguished career. Engaging with the complexity and multiplicity of our contemporary legal world, the contributions are likely to become classics themselves as they tackle some of the most significant challenges that modern law faces.

Introduction; I: Socio-Legal Themes; 1: Why Must Legal Ideas Be Interpreted Sociologically? Roger Cotterrell and the Vocation of Sociology of Law; 2: Sociology, History and the 'Internal' Study of Law; 3: Images of Borders and the Politics and Legality of Identity; 4: Brave New World? The Challenges of Transnational Law and Legal Pluralism to Contemporary Legal Theory; 5: Polity as Constitutional Law's Community; 6: The Politics of The Politics of Jurisprudence; II: Methodological and Jurisprudential Themes; 7: Towards a Fruitful Cooperation between Legal Philosophy, Legal Sociology and Doctrinal Research; 8: Discovering the Econo-Socio-Legal Through a Communal Lens; 9: Culture, Community, Comparison; 10: Law, Community and the 2011 London Riots; 11: 'No Justice, No Peace!' Conceptualizing Legal Alienation in the Aftermath of the Trayvon Martin Case; 12: Three Concepts of Law and the Lost Art of Legislation; 13: The Sociology of The Politics of Jurisprudence; III: Globalization, Cultural and Comparative Law Themes; 14: The Sociology of International Law; 15: From Legal Pluralism to Global Legal Pluralism; 16: Legal Culture and Legal Transplants; 17: Keeping Civility in its Place; 18: Why Are Americans Originalist?; 19: The Rule of Law After the Short Twentieth Century