This immensely interesting, wide-ranging, wellwritten, learned, and contentious book--a superb analysis of extralegal regulation--will command a large readership among academic lawyers and social scientists, and may in the fullness of time come to be regarded as a classic of interdisciplinary legal scholarship."
   --Richard A. Posner, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit,

A welcome addition to the new literature on conflict, law, and informal social control in contemporary societies... [Order without Law] constitutes one of the most eloquent and powerful attacks yet on the widespread belief that government lies at the heart of social order in the modern world.
   --M. P. Baumgartner, Contemporary Sociology

Uses theory and ethnography to explain norms in a manner that sociologists would do well to imitate. [Ellickson] presents evidence in an objective style that allows readers to reach their own verdicts, and his skillful storytelling accentuates his theoretical acumen.
   --Jason Jimerson, American Journal of Sociology

"[A] fascinating book... Ellickson's clean prose and considerate rhetorical style are refreshing.
   --William Fischel, Land Economics

Robert Ellickson shows that people govern themselves largely by means of informal rules--social norms--without the aid of a state or other central coordinator. Integrating the latest scholarship in law, economics, sociology, game theory, and anthropology, Ellickson investigates the uncharted world within which order is successfully achieved without law.
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