Above The Law

Around 1900 Max Weber outlined his “scientific” method to law, identifying the “authorized rational kind” as a type of domination, not attributable to non-public authority however to the authority of abstract norms. Formal authorized rationality was his term for the vital thing attribute of the sort of coherent and calculable law that was a precondition for contemporary political developments and the modern bureaucratic state. Weber noticed this law as having developed in parallel with the growth of capitalism. Another leading sociologist, Émile Durkheim, wrote in his classic work The Division of Labour in Society that as society …