Contents: Introduction / Robin Luckham -- Llewellyn and Hoebel: A Case Study in Inter-Disciplinary Collaboration / William Twining -- Law in Context, the Sociology of Legal Institutions, Litigation in Society / Richard L. Abel -- Land Law and the Transition to Capitalism: The Natural History of a Senegalese Case Study / Francis G. Snyder -- The Ghana Legal Profession: The Natural History of a Research Project / Robin Luckham -- The English Legal Profession and the Politics of Research: A Case Study / John Baldwin and Michael McConville -- Researching Barrister´s Clerks / John Flood -- Notes on the Production of Ethnographic Data in an American Police Agency / Hohn Van Maanen -- The Truth About Fieldwork: Chile 1972-1973 / Heleen F.P. Ietswaart -- Science and Politics: Doing Reserch in Rio´s Sqatter Settlements / Boaventura de Sousa Santos