'Socio-legal studies' in the UK has grown mainly out of the interest of law schools in promoting interdisciplinary studies of law. Whether regarded as an emerging discipline, sub-discipline or a methodological approach, it is often viewed in light of its relationship to, and oppositional role within, law.aw is something else, something that we isolate out and call law…. The strong version, on the other hand, rejects all legal centralist and formalist models of law, as a myth, an ideal, a claim, an illusion, regarding state law as one among many forms of law or forms of social ordering.