1. Setting the bounds of law in modern society 2. Approaches to law in society 3. Law as social rules 4. Law prior to rules 5. Law as a system of rules 6. Social spheres 7. The reception of law 8. Law and coercion 9. Legal pluralism: parallel legal orders 10. Extended legal pluralism: informal legal orders 11. Does law have social functions? 12. The social value of law 13. Forms of modern legal orders 14. Social foundations of the modern legal form 15. Implementation and the architecture of law 16. Implementation: the legal and social environment 17. Change through the law: the contours of compliance

Denis Galligan , Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford