Scapegoat and magic charm: law in development theory and practice

Central Problems in Social Theory

1979 • 7,575 citations

New rules of sociological method

1976 • 2,691 citations

What is Legal Pluralism?

1986 • 1,673 citations

Rules and Processes: The Cultural Logic of Dispute in an African Context.

1982 • 460 citations

Forum Shopping and Shopping Forums: Dispute Processing in a Minangkabau Village in West Sumatra

1981 • 363 citations

Comparative Law and Social Change: On the Origins, Style, Decline & Revival of the Law and Development Movement

1977 • 146 citations

Law as a Weapon in Social Conflict

1976 • 141 citations

Colonialism and Legal Form: The Creation of “Customary Law” in Senegal

1981 • 130 citations

Law and Development in the Light of Dependency Theory

1980 • 101 citations

The broken stairways to consensus: Village justice and state courts in Minangkabau

1984 • 86 citations

Redirecting Social Studies of Law

1980 • 79 citations

Trouble-Cases and Trouble-Less Cases in the Study of Customary Law and Legal Reform

1973 • 60 citations

The limits of law

1980 • 59 citations

Tradition, Social Justice and Land Reform in Central Botswana

1980 • 43 citations

Work and Welfare: The Unholy Alliance

1980 • 30 citations

Political Leadership and Legal Change in Zinacantan

1976 • 29 citations

Law out of Context: A Comment on the Creation of Traditional Law Discussion

1984 • 23 citations

Law and Human Interaction

1977 • 22 citations

Op zoek naar het kleinere euvel in de jungle van het rechtspluralisme

1983 • 13 citations

State Coercion against Peasant Farmers: The Tanzanian Case

1982 • 13 citations

Staff, Kulaks and Peasants: a Study of a Political Field

1977 • 11 citations

Property in social continuity

1979 • 11 citations

Interfaces and Janusfaces: A critical appraisal of the interface approach in development sociology from a socio-legal perspective.

1989 • 7 citations

Development and the legal process in Kenya: An analysis of the role of law in rural development administration.

1984 • 6 citations

Traditional values in a non‐traditional context: Adat and state courts in west Sumatra

1982 • 6 citations

Leegstaande luchtkastelen: Over de pathologie van grondenrechtshervormingen in ontwikkelingslanden

1986 • 5 citations

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1937 • 3 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations