Exploring the 'Socio' of Socio-Legal Studies

Herausgegeben:Feenan, Dermot

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this insightful collection, a broad range of scholars analyzes a core issue for socio-legal studies, what is understood by the 'socio' of the 'socio-legal'. Drawing from legal theory, cultural studies, and social policy, the collection's wide scope of themes and topics provides an important stock-take and analysis of the socio-legal field.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
• Verlag: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• 2013
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9780230337183
• ISBN-10: 023033718X
• Artikelnr.: 37743170

Autorenporträt

Dermot Feenan is a Research Fellow at the School of Law, University of Portsmouth, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Exploring the 'Socio' of Socio-Legal Studies; Dermot Feenan.- 2. What Makes a Social Science of Law? Doubling the Social in Socio-Legal Studies; Susan S. Silbey.- 3. The Contested Social; John Clarke.- 4. Law, Ethics and Socio-history: The Case of Freedom; Alan Norrie.- 5. De Lege Ferenda: What is the 'Socio' of Legal Reasoning?; Panu Minkkinen.- 6. Reimagining the Humanities: Socio-Legal Scholarship in an Age of Disenhancement; Julia J.A. Shaw .- 7. Transnational Legal Processes and the (Re)construction of the 'Social: The Case of Human Trafficking; David Nelken.- 8. Addressing a 'Globalised Social': Mobilization of Law in Global Networks with Reference to Biofuel Production in Indonesia; Jacqueline Vel and Adriaan Bedner.- 9. Social Practice and Socio-Legal Studies; Hilary Sommerlad.- 10. The Gendered 'Socio' of Socio-Legal Studies; Rosemary Hunter.- 11. Queer Sociality; Sally R. Munt.- 12. Bringing Society to Law: A Critically Raced Accounting; Francisco Valdes.- 13. From Responsible Saver to Stewarded Investor?; Sally Wheeler.