Lawrence M. Friedman is Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law at Stanford Law School.
Until now, surprisingly, there have been no synthetic analyses of a
fundamental question: Why do some laws actually have a significant
impact on the social and economic behaviors that they target, and
why do other laws fall very short? By taking on this daunting task,
and by brilliantly integrating rich veins of empirical research and
social science theory, Lawrence Friedman has done a great favor for
all scholars, students, and citizens-both the legal optimists and
the legal skeptics-who wonder, as we all should, about law's
potential to reshape society. -- Robert A. Kagan, University of
California, Berkeley
This is Friedman at his best. Impact is a masterful review,
a grand synthesis, and a penetrating analysis of the power (and
weakness) of law in defining and shaping the social order. It will
be of great value to legal scholars and social scientists of all
sorts, both in the United States and abroad. -- Malcolm M. Feeley,
University of California, Berkeley
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