Sociology and international law: some historical connections

摘要: Sociology and international law are closely related. Both fields were formalised as disciplines in the second half of nineteenth century, though this is not source their closeness. Rather, they related because joint reliance on notion social. made much use an organic-communitarian understanding social both a counter-current arose against direction, around distinctly politico-legal understanding. In building its tradition, actually borrowed heavily from sociological discourses time, particularly work Durkheim. The borrowings concerning however, ran other way, with sociology borrowing those public about sovereignty that informed most law. paper sketches main method involved, sets out each two aforementioned rival understandings social, discusses law’s understanding, sociology’s deploying through sovereignty.