John Law, English sociologist and academic

John Law, is a sociologist and science and technology studies scholar, currently on the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University. Law coined the term Actor-Network Theory (ANT) in 1992 when synthesising work done with colleagues at the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation. He remained one of the leading proponents of this theory together with Madeleine Akrich, Michel Callon and Bruno Latour