LAW FACTS

This review article is not dedicated to a subject matter of research. Instead it outlines various kinds of facts commonly used to analyze the relations of law and society. To illustrate, it gives examples of eight distinct kinds of facts on how action departs from relevant laws on the books: actions in crusades; actions following deep norms when coordination norms are in conflict with them; police culture undermining legal citizen protection; corruption; legal pluralism as in colonies; crucial missing facts on behavior deliberately left out of the law of contract and similar laws to create flexibility; and disagreements between public opinion and the law. Each of these and more are then analyzed in terms of what is distinctive about them and of the kind of law and society theories they bear on.