Description: Based on sophisticated demographic analysis, Legal Construct, Social Concept argues that legal doctrine on social issues is shaped by the needs and values of society rather than by individuals and interest groups and that it evolves in response to social change but has little impact on that change
Brief description:
Larry D. Barnett is professor of law at Widener University School of Law in Delaware, specializing in securities law as well as in social science and law. His publications include articles in law reviews and a casebook titled Mutual Funds and Federal Regulation: Readings on the Investment Company Act and the Investment Advisers Act. He was the founder and first editor-in-chief of the demography journal Population Research and Policy Review.
Review Quotes:
-Legal Construct, Social Concept, by Larry D. Barnett, tackles an issue fundamental to scientific research and to policy-making: the relationship between legal doctrine and social context.-
--Robin Stryker, American Journal of Sociology