SOCIAL RESEARCH ON LEGALITY A Reply to Auerbach.

The article discusses sociological research. One must certainly be indebted to sociologist C.A. Auerbach for having broadened their horizons with the addition of numerous citations. The author would like to reassure him that they were not excluded because, as he suggests, he might have "thought none of them had any value for the kind of theory ... the sociologist of law ought to elaborate." Many of them are doubtless "relevant" but, as the author pointed out early in the article, he omitted all manner of "relevant" literature. He did not regard it as my responsibility to develop a comprehensive bibliography of "relevant" material, but rather to indicate some of the central theoretical concerns and research interests of the developing field of the sociology of law. Regarding these, sociologist Auerbach makes fundamental criticisms. He can "think of no more fruitless task" than his conclusion that sociologists of law ought to explore "the nature of legality . . and the conditions under which it is likely to emerge."