<i>‘This is an excellent overview of conceptual explanations of law, and a bold attempt to deal with one of the more well-established truisms within law and the humanities.’</i>

- Erin Buckley, Law in Context,

<i>'Giudice attempts to reconcile two positions seemingly in tension: that law is a social construction, yet it has a natural core. Law is both a social artifact and a natural kind (of a sort). When making this argument, he demonstrates that conceptual analysis must be supplemented by causal analysis, drawing on sociology, anthropology, behavioral neuroscience, and other scientific disciplines, as well as by moral and political analysis. His thesis and his method chart potentially fruitful paths for the next stage of analytical jurisprudence. This is a fascinating, ambitious, and important work.'</i><br /> --Brian Z. Tamanaha, Washington University in St. Louis, US<p></p>

<i>'Michael Giudice shows again the subtlety and clarity of thought we have come to expect from his work. This book is indispensable for anyone interested in understanding law, whether and how it is socially constructed, the method for understanding it, or the relation between its nature and our concept of it.'</i><br /> --Kenneth M. Ehrenberg, Co-Director, Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy, UK<p></p>