The parts of this book which were previously published have been revised and updated before being reproduced here. In some cases, these revisions have been extensive, while in others only minor changes were deemed necessary. The author acknowledges the following for their kind permissions to use previously printed material from: ‘Whose Experience is the Measure of Justice?’ in (2008) Legal Ethics 10(2): 209–222; ‘Law Through Sociology’s Looking Glass: Conflict and Competition in Sociological Studies of Law’ in Denis, A and Kalekin-Fishman, D (eds) (2009) The New ISA Handbook in Contemporary International Sociology: Conflict, Competition, Cooperation, London: Sage; ‘Poetic Injustice’ in (2008) Retfoerd: The Nordic Journal of Law and Justice for volume 31(3): 69–90; ‘The Politics of Legal Cultures’ in (2008) Retfoerd: The Nordic Journal of Law and Justice 31(4): 37–60; ‘Power, Culture and Method in Comparative Law’ in International Journal of Law in Context (2009) International Journal of Law in Context 5(1): 69–85; ‘Having One’s Cake and Eating It: The Paradox of Contextualisation in Socio-Legal Research’ in (2011) International Journal of Law in Context 7(4): 487–503; ‘Sociology of Law’ in (2011) Online Journal of International Sociological Association: Sociopedia.ISA 1–14; ‘Driving Dangerously: Law, Culture and Driving habits in Iran’ in (2012) British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 39(2): 241–257; ‘In Search of Heimat: A Note on Franz Kafka’s Concept of Law’ in (2010) Law and Literature 23(3): 463–490; ‘Can Legal Sociology Account for the Normativity of Law’ in BaierM (2013) Social and Legal Norms. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 15–38; and ‘Law and Regulation in Late Modernity’ in Banakar R and Travers M (eds) (2013) Law and Social Theory. Oxford: Hart, pp. 305–324. The author is indebted to Mark Jones for his invaluable assistance in editing the first draft of this book. Mark’s editorial contributions have raised the clarity of many discussions in this book. He is also indebted to Ann Williams for painstakingly proofreading and checking the references.