Full Description
What are the different institutional, intellectual and biographical trajectories in socio-legal studies, and how can they be compared?
This book brings together scholars from across Europe to reflect on the socio-political, legal and academic contexts in which they became the academics they are today. The chapters link individual scholars to the historical and contemporary factors that have shaped or influenced their work and careers - a novel approach that combines scholarly self-reflection with a historical perspective on the development of socio-legal studies between law and the social sciences.
The editors provide a heuristic framework for comparing and making sense of these different, dual trajectories, and show how professional scholarly biographies can be both contextualised and analysed with a view to shedding light on broader academic fields, both nationally and internationally.
Contents
1. Zooming In, Zooming Out: Socio-Legal Trajectories between Country Studies and Scholarly Self-Reflection, Christian Boulanger, Naomi Creutzfeldt and Jennifer Hendry
2. The Comeback of Law: Theoretical Foundations and Research Traditions of Socio-Legal Studies in Poland after 1989, Marta Bucholc
3. Socio-Legal Studies in Contemporary Hungarian Legal Scholarship: Successes and Challenges, Balázs Fekete
4. Sociology of Law in the Western Balkans: Instrumentality, Liminality and Beyond, Samir Foric
5. Outline of a Danish Socio-Legal Trajectory Interconnected with Sociology of Law in Norway and Sweden, Ole Hammerslev
6. At the Crossroads of Sociology and Law: An Essay in Socio-Analysis, Liora Israël
7. Interdisciplinary Labour Law Studies: From Critical Legal Studies to the Sociology of Law and Back Again, Eva Kocher
8. On the Matter of the Law and Socio-Legal Identifications, Revital Madar
9. A Eurolatin Career in Comparative Public Law: From Analytic Legal Theory to Sociology of Law, Francisca Pou Giménez
10. Socio-Legal Studies in the United Kingdom: A Personal Reflection, Sally Wheeler
