Jurisprudence and Socio-Legal Studies

ISBN-13: 9781032374635 / Miękka / 2024 / 264 str.

Roger Cotterrell

Opis

This book presents a set of related studies aimed at showing key points of intersection and common interest between jurisprudence and socio-legal studies, which are otherwise typically considered distinct fields.

Recenzje

"This is a marvelous collection: the essays show Roger Cotterrell at his best: incisive but also open-minded, offering valuable lessons to both established scholars and beginning law students."

Professor Brian Bix, Frederick W. Thomas Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Minnesota, USA

Spis treści

Preface, Introduction: Mapping Inquiries About Law, Part 1: A Terrain of Socio-legal Inquiry, 1. The Development of Sociology of Law, 2. The Identity and Function of Sociology of Law, 3. The Place of Values in Socio-Legal Studies, 4. Legal Culture and Cultural Diversity, 5. Socio-Legal Studies and the Law School, Part 2: Juristic Radicals as Socio-legal Pioneers, 6. Jurisprudence in Context, 7. The Jurist as Humanist Polymath (Petrażycki), 8. The Jurist as Legal Sociologist (Ehrlich), 9. Radical Legal Pluralism in the Shadow of Fascism (Romano), 10. A Functional Jurisprudence for the Welfare State (Lundstedt), Part 3: Mapping Intersecting Fields, 11. Parallel Histories – Jurisprudence and Social Science, 12. Contemporary Interactions – Legal Theory and Social Theory, 13. Linked Futures – Jurisprudence and Socio-legal Studies 

O autorze

Roger Cotterrell is Anniversary Professor of Legal Theory at Queen Mary University of London. Educated as both a lawyer and a sociologist, he has written widely on jurisprudence, sociology of law and comparative law, and has devoted much of his career to building conversations between the contrasting traditions of jurisprudence and sociology of law. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the UK Academy of Social Sciences. His book Sociological Jurisprudence, published by Routledge in 2018, won the international Dennis Mahoney Prize for Legal Theory in 2022.