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“Lawyer in the Social Sciences”—Geoffrey Sawer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2025

Ross Cranston
Ross Cranston*
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Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Federal Law Review , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , September 1980 , pp. 263 - 270
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Copyright © 1980 The Australian National University

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Footnotes

My thanks to Anne Schick in the preparation of this article.

References

1 Sawer, , The Place of a Lawyer in the Social Sciences (1953).Google Scholar

2 E.g. Sawer, , “The Legal Theory of Law Reform” (1970) 20 University of Toronto Law Journal 183CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Law in Society (1965); “The Western Conception of Law” in Zweigert (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (1973) ii, ch. 1, ‘The Legal Systems of The World. Their Comparison and Unification’ 14-48; “Nationalism in the Working of the Federal Constitution” (1969) 3 Teaching History 36.

3 Sawer, “Government as Personalized Legal Entity” in Webb (ed.), Legal Personality and Political Pluralism (1958) 158.

4 Ibid.

5 Sawer, , Law in Society (1965) 1-2, 168-169, 190, 199-200.Google Scholar

6 Sawer, , “Legal Realism” (1939) 2 Res Judicatae 68Google Scholar, a witty note on what examinations will look like if the realists are accepted.

7 Sawer, “Introduction” in Sawer (ed.), Studies in the Sociology of Law (1961) vii-viii.

8 Cf. Twining, Karl Llewellyn and the Realist Movement {1973) 35-36, 97.

9 Op. cit. 4-5.

10 In the writer’s view studies like Dworkin, , Taking Rights Seriously (1977)Google Scholar are too heavily normative to qualify. Non-analytical jurisprudence has spawned studies of the law in action; e.g. the use by the Berkeley school of Lon Fuller’s writings: Selznick, , “Jurisprudence and Social Policy: Aspirations and Perspectives” (1980) 68 California Law Review 206.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

11 Sawer, “Government as Personalized Legal Entity”, op. cit. 159.

12 Id. 167.

13 Op. cit. 191, 195.

14 Paton, and Sawer, , “Ratio Decidendi and Obiter Dictum in Appellate Courts” (1947) 63 L.Q.R. 461, 482.Google Scholar

15 Op. cit. 106.

16 Id. 160.

17 Sawer, , “Political Questions” (1963) 15 University of Toronto Law Journal 49, 50.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

18 E.g. Blackshield, , “Judges and the Court System” in Evans (ed.), Labor and the Constitution 1972-1975 (1977) 121-126.Google Scholar

19 Gibson, , “Judges’ Role Orientations, Attitudes and Decisions: An Interactive Model” (1978) 72 American Political Science Review 911.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

20 E.g. Sawer, , Australian Federalism in the Courts (1967).Google Scholar

21 Sawer, Law in Society, op. cit. 165, 186-191. Cf. Sawer, “Legal Profession” in Encyclopedia Britannica (15th ed. 1974) x, 779, 782-783.

22 Sawer, Law in Society, op. cit. 13.

23 Black, , The Behaviour of Law (1976).Google Scholar

24 E.g. Posner, Economic Analysis of Law (2nd ed. 1977). Cf. Michelman, , “Norms and Normativity in the Economic Theory of Law” (1978) 62 Minnesota Law Review 1015, 1040-1041.Google Scholar

25 Sawer, Law in Society, op. cit. 14.

26 Sawer, , “Division of a Fused Legal Profession: The Australasian Experience” (1966) 16 University of Toronto Law Journal 245, 253.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

27 Sawer, , “Singulars, Plurals and Section 57 of the Constitution” (1976) 8 F.L. Rev. 45, 49.Google Scholar

28 Sawer, Australian Federalism in the Courts, op. cit. 53-S4.

29 Cf. MacRae, Weber (1974) 45-51.