“The essays on legal theory gathered in this book all regard or touch on a dominant theme, that of the ‘promotional’ role of law. This is an issue whose exploration and discussion I see as vital for adapting the general theory of law to the transformations underway in contemporary society and to the growth of the social state. This adaptation has become necessary for those who want to understand the metamorphosis of the law from an instrument of ‘social control’ to one of ‘social guidance’, in other words to fill the gap between the general theory of law as it stands and the same theory as it should be in a social universes in constant motion”.