Formal legal rationality was his term for the key characteristic of the kind of coherent and calculable law that was a precondition for modern political developments and the modern bureaucratic state. Weber saw this law as having developed in parallel with the growth of capitalism. Other notable early legal sociologists included Hugo Sinzheimer, Theodor Geiger, Georges Gurvitch and Leon Petrażycki in Europe, and William Graham Sumner in the U.S.
- In the United States the field is usually called law and society studies; in Europe it is more often referred to as socio-legal studies.
- Evidence law involves which materials are admissible in courts for a case to be built.
- The Emory Law School curriculum is attuned to the needs of the legal profession and the universe of careers engaged with the law.
- The constitutions of certain Muslim states, such as Egypt and Afghanistan, recognise Islam as the religion of the state,