Book Review:
Charles W. Grau, The Crisis in Law and Social Order (reviewing Iredell Jenkins’ Social Order and the Limits of Law), 59 Texas L. Rev. 169 (1980).
 

Abstract:
Professor Jenkins’ book examines the “legal crisis” created by the perceived failures of the liberal legal order. Jenkins’ argues that the crisis arose because the use of law to change society undermined nonlegal institutions. In reviewing Professor Jenkins’ book, Grau agrees with Jenkins’ conclusion that the law cannot adequately transform the social order. However, he states that the fundamental flaw in Jenkins’ book is his focus on the inadequacy of law to change the social order without examining the failures of the social order itself. As a result, Grau argues that Jenkins overstates the degree to which the law creates problems in society.