One additional “follow up” reading—maybe best thought of as a companion reading—would be Author Houge’s The Origins of the Common Law
I think it would fit well into the area where local, informal norms intersecting with more formal legal/dispute resolution institutions. As I recall Elllickson did not spend too much time, hardly a surprise given his focus, on that area.
I think it would be very interesting to see someone take his hypotheses and theory and apply it to some of the more recent events that have occurred. For example, some of the smaller communities in the Dakotas and Montana area which seem pretty “neighborly” internally but seem to clash with outsiders and even local and state formal structures.
One additional “follow up” reading—maybe best thought of as a companion reading—would be Author Houge’s The Origins of the Common Law
I think it would fit well into the area where local, informal norms intersecting with more formal legal/dispute resolution institutions. As I recall Elllickson did not spend too much time, hardly a surprise given his focus, on that area.
I think it would be very interesting to see someone take his hypotheses and theory and apply it to some of the more recent events that have occurred. For example, some of the smaller communities in the Dakotas and Montana area which seem pretty “neighborly” internally but seem to clash with outsiders and even local and state formal structures.