"A clear and articulate summary of recent debates about law within European Marxism...For teaching purposes this is certainly the best available monograph."--Choice. "Collins has achieved a coherent and well-reasoned ordering of the most salient insights of Marxist analyses of law."--Dennis M. Patterson in Legal Studies Forum. Easily comprehensible to those unacquainted with Marxism, this text provides a thorough introductory account of law from a Marxist point of view, covering such topics as Law as an Instrument of Class Oppression, Ideology and Law, and Class Struggle and the Rule of Law.