Law in Perspective is intended to encourage critical, responsible, and creative thinking about law as a system of ideas and a social institution. Written partly as a textbook for first-year law students, it explores the relationships between law, logic, and science; examines the socio-economic role of law; and asks what role the legal system plays in alleviating or exacerbating contemporary social problems, such as crime and punishment, terrorism, regees and tort law reform. To place law in its historical, philosophical, economic, political and social contexts, Michael Head and Scott Mann focus upon a range of powerful critical thinking tools in the form of ideas and techniques drawn from logic, science, ethics, and political and social theory.