1. See, for example, D. Mellinkoff, The Language of the Law (Boston: Little Brown, 1963)
2. P. Carlen, Magistrates’ Justice (London: Martin Robertson, 1976)
3. W. O’Barr, Linguistic Evidence (London: Academic Press, 1982)
4. A more sophisticated account is put forward in I. Stewart, ‘Sociology in Jurisprudence’, in B. Fryer et al. (eds), Law, State and Society (London: Croom Helm, 1981) p. 107.
5. For a recent conspectus, cf. D. R. Harris, ‘The Development of Socio-Legal Studies within the United Kingdom’ (1983) 3, Legal Studies, 315.