"The Outside
Point of View ... looks at legal phenomenon from the standpoint of one or more
of the social sciences: sociology, anthropology, economics, psychology, political
science, and perhaps others ... An economist might be interested ... in exploring
the question whether it would be more effective to give a company a subsidy to
keep it from dumping toxic waste, as opposed to fines and criminal sanctions.
An anthropologist might be interested in how cultures differ in the ways they
handle disputes between husband and wife. A psychologist might want to find out
how juries actually go about making their decision." [For an elaborate discussion
of the outside perspective, see: Law & Society: Readings in the Social
Study of Law, eds. Stewart Macaulay, Lawrence M. Friedman, John Stookey (1995),
1-6]