Exploring the 'Legal' in Socio-Legal Studies
Socio-legal studies have had an ambivalent relationship with the 'legal' – one of its defining aspects, but at the same time one that the discipline has sought to transcend or even leave behind. While socio-legal studies benefit hugely from the insights, methods and theories of other socia...
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| Language: | English |
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London
Palgrave Macmillan
2016, 2016
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016 |
| Series: | Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
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Table of Contents:
- Exploring the legal; David Cowan and Daniel Wincott
- PART I: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
- 1. Debt, Death, and Redemption: Toward a Soterial-Legal History of the Turner Rebellion; Christopher Tomlins
- 2. The Concept of Law in Global Societal Constitutionalism; Ji?í P?ibá?
- 3. Portraying the Legal in Socio-Legal Studies through Legal-Naming Events; Natalie Ohana
- 4. Sex/Gender Equality: Taking a Break from the Legal to Transform the Social; Sharon Cowan
- PART II: CASE STUDIES
- 5. Fluid Legal Labels and the Circulation of Socio-technical Objects: the Multiple Lives of 'Fake' Medicines; Emilie Cloatre
- 6. Solar Panels, Home Owners and Leases: the Lease as a Socio-legal Object; Caroline Hunter
- 7. Bringing the Technical into the Socio-legal: The Metaphors of Law and Legal Scholarship of a 21st Century European Union; Paul James Cardwell and Tamara Hervey
- 8. Territory and Human Rights: Mandatory Possession Proceedings; David Cowan
- 9. Legal Technology in an Age of Austerity:Documentation, 'Functional' Incontinence and the Problem of Dignity; Helen Carr
- 10. Following the Law or Using the Law? Decision Making in Medical Manslaughter; Andrew Sanders and Danielle Griffiths
- A Sociolegal Metatheory; Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
- Afterword; Annelise Riles