Law and Social Theory de Reza Banakar

Law and Social Theory

Reza Banakar

Max Travers

There is a growing interest within law schools in the intersections between law and different areas of social theory. The second edition of this popular text introduces a wide range of traditions in sociology and the humanities that offer provocative, contextual views on law and legal institutions.The book is organised into six sections, each with an introduction by the editors, on classical sociology of law, systems theory, critical approaches, law in action, postmodernism, and law in global society. Each chapter is written by a specialist who reviews the literature, and discusses how the approach can be used in researching different topics. New chapters include authoritative reviews of actor network theory, new legal realism, critical race theory, post-colonial theories of law, and the sociology of the legal profession. Over half the chapters are new, and the rest are revised in order to include discussion of recent literature.

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This is a new edition of a popular text on the intersections between law and different areas of social theory.The book introduces a wide range of traditions in sociology and the humanities that offer provocative, contextual views on law and legal institutions.Each chapter is written by a specialist who reviews the literature, and discusses how the approach can be used in researching different topics.An extremely useful tool for all those looking for a guide to the way law and social theory overlap.

Notă biografică

Reza Banakar is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the Department for Advanced Legal Studies, School of Law, University of Westminster and the Director of Research at the Centre for Legal Sociology at Lund University. Max Travers is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania.

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Introduction Reza Banakar and Max TraversSection 1: Classical Sociology of Law Introduction by Reza Banakar and Max Travers1 The Problematisation of Law in Classical Social Theory Alan Hunt2 Sociological Jurisprudence A Javier TrevinoSection 2: Systems Theory Introduction by Reza Banakar and Max Travers3 The Radical Sociology of Niklas Luhmann Michael King4 The Legal Theory of Jürgen Habermas: Between the Philosophy and the Sociology of Law Mathieu Defl emSection 3: Critical Approaches Introduction by Reza Banakar and Max Travers5 Marxism and the Social Theory of Law Robert Fine6 Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology of Law: From the Genesis of the State to the Globalisation of Law Mikael Rask Madsen and Yves Dezalay7 Feminist Legal Theory Harriet Samuels8 Critical Race Theory Angela P HarrisSection 4: Law in Action Introduction by Reza Banakar and Max Travers9 Interpretive Sociologists and Law Max Travers10 Bruno Latour's Legal Anthropology Frédéric Audren and Cédric Moreau de Bellaing11 New Legal Realism and the Empirical Turn in Law Stewart Macaulay and Elizabeth MertzSection 5: Postmodernism Introduction by Reza Banakar and Max Travers12 Foucault and Law Gary Wickham13 Law and Postmodernism Shaun McVeigh14 Postcolonial Theories of Law Eve Darian-SmithSection 6: Law in a Global Society Introduction by Reza Banakar and Max Travers15 Reviewing Legal Pluralism Anne Griffiths16 Globalisation and Law: Law Beyond the State Ralf Michaels17 Law and Regulation in Late Modernity Reza Banakar18 Studies of the Legal Profession Ole Hammerslev19 Comparative Sociology of Law David Nelken