Rosemary Hunter

David Nelken

Ulrike Schultz

Håkan Hydén

Roger Cotterrell

This open access book pays homage to Reza Banakar, who passed away in August 2020, exploring the many different areas of socio-legal research that he worked on and influenced. It begins with a summary of his career and explains how he sparked a debate on the identity and aims of legal sociology. The book is then split into 5 sections: - Theory, including chapters on normativity and the stepchild controversy; - Methods and interdisciplinarity, illustrating how Banakar encouraged socio-legal scholars to push the boundaries of existing socio-legal knowledge through interdisciplinary imagination and methodological flexibility; - Legal culture, with particular focus on Iran - 2 areas of special interest for Banakar; - Law and science, covering topics such as human rights, the right to life, and the COVID-19 pandemic; and - Applied sociology of law, inspired by Banakar's engagement with empirical research and case studies. As well as honouring Reza Banakar's memory and unique thinking, the book aims to advance the sociology of law by demonstrating the interconnectedness of the legal and the social from a broad range of perspectives. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Lund University Libraries.

An Homage to Reza Banakar

Combining the Legal and the Social in Sociology of Law

Caroline Hunter

Helen Carr

Brendan Edgeworth

Based on a workshop "Law and the Precarious Home" hosted by Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, July 2015.--ECIP acknowledgments.

Socio Legal Perspectives on the Home in Insecure Times

Law and the Precarious Home

Jessie Hohmann

Beth Goldblatt

What does the right to the continuous improvement of living conditions in Article 11(1) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights really mean and how can it contribute to social change? The book explores how this underdeveloped right can have valuable application in response to global problems of poverty, inequality and climate destruction, through an in-depth consideration of its meaning. The book seeks to interpret and give meaning to the right as a legal standard, giving it practical value for those whose living conditions are inadequate. It locates the right within broader philosophical and political debates, whilst also assessing the challenges to its realisation. It also explores how the right relates to human rights more generally and considers its application to issues of gender, care and the rights of Indigenous peoples. The contributors deeply probe the meaning of 'living conditions', suggesting that these encompass more than the basic rights to housing, water, food, and clothing. The chapters provide a range of doctrinal, historical and philosophical engagements through grounded analysis and imaginative interpretation. With a foreword by Sandra Liebenberg (former Member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), the book includes chapters from renowned and emerging scholars working across disciplines from around the world.

Responding to Complex Global Challenges

The Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions

Susanne Karstedt

Kai Bussmann

This book explores new directions in contemporary theorising about the impact of social and cultural dynamics on crime and social control.

New Theories for a World in Transition

Social Dynamics of Crime and Control

Gisela Shaw

Based on both quantitative and qualitative analyses, this is the first comprehensive study of women in the world's legal professions.

Women in the World's Legal Professions

Ronnie Lippens

This book explores the issue of how the Imaginary has a role in the production and reproduction of 'visions' of legal and social justice.

Social and Legal Justice Across Disciplines

Imaginary Boundaries of Justice

This intriguing collection of essays by David Nelken examines the relationship between law, society and social theory and the various ideas social theorists have had about the actual and ideal 'fit' between law and its social context. It also asks how far it is possible to get beyond this mainstream paradigm. The value of social theorising for studying law is illustrated by specific developments in substantive areas such as housing law, tort law, the law of evidence and criminal law. Throughout the chapters the focus is on the following questions. What is gained (and what may be lost) by putting law in context? What attempts have been made to go beyond this approach? What are their (necessary) limits? Can law be seen as anything other than in some way both separate from and relating to 'the social'? The distinctiveness of this approach lies in its effort to keep in tension two claims. Firstly, that social theorising about legal practices is vitally important for understanding the connections between legal and social structures and revealing what law means and does for (and to) various social actors. The second point is that it does not follow that what we learn in this way can be assumed to be necessarily relevant to (re)shaping legal practices without further argument that pays heed to law's specificity.

Developing a Sociological Understanding of Law

Beyond Law in Context

Lars Trägårdh

Lars Tragardh

In this book historians, legal scholars and political theorists consider the fate of national democracy in the age of globalization.

David Nelken

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