Sciences Juridiques Sociologie politique
The sociology of law (or legal sociology) is the branch (or sub-discipline) of sociology which studies legal phenomena by paying attention to the effective practices of actors in the legal field, and not simply to regulatory texts. This discipline has complex relationships with law on the one hand, and the theory or science of law. The Italian jurist Dionisio Anzilotti was the first, in 1892, to use the expression "legal sociology" In France, it was however only after the Second World War that the sociology of law gradually imposed itself on the faculties of law, in particular under the aegis of Henri Lévy-Bruhl, who was its titular figure from 1926 to his death in 1964 In 1966, François Terré affirmed that "(...) legal sociology had obtained, in France, freedom of the city". The formula introduces the founding ambiguity specific to the discipline. Indeed, the right of citizenship does not appear in formal law.







































