Law and the Search for Community

Now in its 2010 NOOKbook edition with a new Foreword. This enduring analysis of law and organizations that change the community--the core relationship between citizen and state--takes aim at real problems in the modern system. A recognized socio-legal classic by UCLA law professor Joel Handler, first published by Penn Press in 1990, this book studies the problem of law and community targeted at specific problems that still resonate today: health care, medical consent, water pollution, special ed…