This volume consists of outstanding essays by contemporary scholars and specialists on classic writings in law and society. This second edition expands the previous volume by adding additional statements. Included are commentaries on Edward A. Ross's Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order, Karl N. Llewellyn's Jurisprudence: Realism in Theory and Practice, Jerome Frank's Law and the Modern Mind, Leon Petrazycki's Law and Morality, and Karl Renner's The Institutions of Private Law and their Social Functions.

1: Foundational Works in Law, Punishment, and Society; 1: On Henry Sumner Maine, Ancient Law; 2: On Gabriel Tarde, Penal Philosophy; 3: On Georg Rusche and Otto Kirchheimer, Punishment and Social Structure; 2: Law and Legal Resoning as Social and Psychological Phenomena; 4: On Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Common Law; 5: On Edward A. Ross, Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order; 6: On Roscoe Pound, Social Control through Law; 7: On Karl N. Llewellyn, Jurisprudence: Realism in Theory and Practice; 8: On Jerome Frank, Law and the Modern Mind; 3: The Sociology of Law; 9: On Eugen Ehrlich, Fundamental Principles of the Sociology of Law; 10: On Leon Petrazycki, Law and Morality; 11: On Georges Gurvitch, Sociology of Law; 12: On Nicholas S. Timasheff, An Introduction to the Sociology of Law; 4: Juristic Entities in the Study of Law and Society; 13: On Karl Renner, The Institutions of Private Law and Their Social Functions; 14: On Marshall B. Clinard and Peter C. Yeager, Corporate Crime; 15: On Hans Kelsen, General Theory of Law and State; 5: Critical Perspectives on Law, Crime, and Society; 16: On Richard Quinney, The Social Reality of Crime; 17: On Evgeny B. Pashukanis, The General Theory of Law and Marxism; 18: On Richard Quinney, Critique of Legal Order