Professor Galanter takes Barbara Yngvesson's paper as an example of the advances made in the literature broadly labeled "law and society" in the last twenty-one years. Twenty-one years ago it was revolutionary for "legal" literature to focus on the experience of disputants rather than on the experience of the court. Professor Galanter argues that Yngvesson makes a welcome addition to the discussion by showing the care with which distinctions such as those between disputant and forum, or between continuing and one-time relations, must be used.
