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Although the Sociology of Law began to be shaped as a science in the 20th century, Grotius and many thinkers from Leibnitz and many historians, ethnolog ists, criminologists, sociologists and jurists who lived in the 19th century have made important contributions to the establishment of the sociology of law as a science. The forerunner of sociology and sociology of law is Aristotle in the first age and Montesquieu in modern times. However, the contribution made by Ibn Khaldun, to the field who was an Islamic scholar and who drew attention with his scientific and sociological views about law, society and state before Montesquieu, should not be ignored.

The sociology of law is a very young science branch and its eponym is D. Anzilotti, an Italian lawyer. Anzilotti described the task of this new branch of science, which he called “sociologia juridica” in 1892, as an empirical analysis of legal events.