ABSTRACT
This chapter encounters ideal-type Law, what Latour might call law as an institution, and observed that, in fact, this Law is bound up in co-dependency with other institutions like Science and the Economy. It focuses on two broad regions: legal anthropology and interdisciplinary work on law and science studies. Legal anthropology, which studies the practical and material existence of legality and which was once a maligned specialization subsumed within the monolithic domain of Anthropology, has come to attract some of the finest legal minds. Legal anthropologists today possess a sophisticated understanding of multiple legal orders, legal histories, progressive research in the philosophy of the social sciences, and anthropological methods that are continuously being improved in practice. Latour has become an important figure in certain strands of legal studies, including law and science/technology studies and the anthropology of law.
