law Definition, Systems, Institutions, & Fields
Formal legal rationality was his term for the key characteristic of the kind of coherent and calculable law that was a precondition for modern political developments and the modern 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 U.S.
- Professor Tara Leigh Grove discusses the lawsuits and other legal challenges stemming from President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan.
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