The aim of this book is to confront two· approaches to law, the social working approach and the symbolic working or communicative approach. This may suggest that there are two conflicting theories of law. However, as Griffiths rightly remarks, the two approaches are not so much conflicting as focusing on different problems. Moreover, each of the approaches may fruitfully integrate insights from the other approach into its own, as both Griffiths (in this book) and Witteveen and Van Klink (1999) demonstrate.

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van der Burg, W. (2005). The irony of a symbolic crusade; The debate on opening up civil marriage to samesex couples. In Social and Symbolic Effects of Legislation Under the Rule of Law (pp. 245–275). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/77417