Normativity in Legal Sociology Methodological Reflections on Law and Regulation in Late Modernity /

• Main Author: Banakar, Reza (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Law.; Political science.; Law > Philosophy.; Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; International law.; Comparative law.; Sociology.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Sociological Theory.; Philosophy of Law.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law.

The field of socio-legal research has encountered three fundamental challenges over the last three decades – it has been criticized for paying insufficient attention to legal doctrine, for failing to develop a sound theoretical foundation and for not keeping pace with the effects of the increasing g...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Conflict and Competition between Law and Sociology
• Chapter 3: Social Scientific Studies of Law
• Chapter 4: Whose Experience is the Measure of Justice?
• Chapter 5: On the Paradoxes of Contextualisation
• Chapter 6: A Note on Franz Kafka’s Concept of Law
• Chapter 7: The Politics of Legal Cultures
• Chapter 8: Comparative Law and Legal Cultures
• Chapter 9: A Case-Study of Non-Western Legal Systems and Cultures
• Chapter 10: The Shift to Risk Management
• Chapter 11: Norms and Normativity in Socio-Legal Research
• Chapter 12: The Changing Horizons of Law and Regulation
• Chapter 13: Law and Regulation in Late Modernity.