Law without the State: Legal Attributes and the Coordination of Decentralized Collective Punishment
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"Law without the State: Legal Attrib..." refers background in this paper
...Although economists and positive political theorists have generally not explored this question systematically ðBenson ½1989a and Kornhauser ½2004 are exceptionsÞ, legal anthropologists and sociologists have....
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...Kornhauser ð2004Þ proposes a similar exercise, developing a social-scientific account of law by placing the question within the broader framework of developing a social-scientific theory of governance structures....
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...We note that Kornhauser ð2004Þ suggests that a social-scientific concept of law would treat law as a term of commendation for a governance structure....
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...Mitchell ð1904, 41–45Þ provides some evidence of this in Italy, where guild courts gradually extended their jurisdiction over all mercantile cases within the city....
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...The guilds of northern Italy, for example, obliged their members to bring disputes to the guild court rather than the ordinary civil court: “the gild did not hesitate to expel members who ignored its claims to jurisdiction, and to forbid trade or commerce with them” ðMitchell 1904, 42–43Þ....
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