ABSTRACT
The Behavior of Law evoked worldwide repercussions after its first published edition in 1976. In Behavior of Law, the author attempts to build a "universally applied" system of propositions that transcend time and space for expounding an orbit of law throughout the "social space" in terms of a quantitative analysis. Black believes that true scientific research transferred into law should be in line with three basic principles. First, science analyzes phenomena rather than nature; second, the views of science should be concrete and coherently illuminated by experience; and third, value judgment should not resort to empirical world. Black has divided social life into five basic aspects in his book: stratification, form, culture, organization, and social control, and transferred them into a set of universal variables for the sake of predicting and explaining the changes in law. The views of legal predictions can be traced back to "The Path of Law", a paper by Oliver W. Holmes Jr., published in 1896.
