Research Handbook on the Sociology of Law

"This unique Research Handbook maps the historical, theoretical, and methodological concepts in sociology of law, exploring the rich and complex nature of this area of research. It argues that sociology of law flourishes due to its strong capacity for interdisciplinary engagement and links to other scientific concepts, methodologies and research fields. Composed as a set of enquiries into the current state of sociology of law, expert contributions cover diverse themes such as inequality and discrimination, crime and punishment, and social justice. Reflecting on recent publications in law and society, socio-legal studies and interdisciplinary law research, the Research Handbook revisits the specific role of sociology of law, its disciplinary boundaries and its relationship to both legal and social sciences. The comprehensive nature of the Research Handbook on the Sociology of Law will appeal to law and social justice practitioners and scholars, as well as students in legal and social science fields who are looking to understand current trends and future research in the discipline"-- Provided by publisher Contents List of figures List of contributors Introduction to Research Handbook on the Sociology of Law • Jiří Přibáň PART I: SOCIOLOGY OF LAW BEYOND DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES 1 Legal theory and sociology of law • Joxerramon Bengoetxea 2 Sociological jurisprudence: tradition and prospects • Roger Cotterrell 3 Sociology of law and legal history • Chloë Kennedy 4 Sociology of law and legal anthropology • Fernanda Pirie 5 Ethnography and law in a transnational world: knowledge, power and discourse • Anne Griffiths 6 Sociology of law and economy • Iagê Miola and Sol Picciotto 7 Sociology of law and science • Emilie Cloatre and Martyn Pickersgill 8 Sociology of regulation • Bettina Lange PART II: THE SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPT OF LAW AND LEGAL SYSTEM 9 Sociology of the rule of law: power, legality and legitimacy • Jiří Přibáň 10 Sociology of the living law: exploring the other hemisphere of the legal world • Marc Hertogh 11 Sociology of legal culture • David Nelken 12 Sociology of the legal system • Richard Nobles and David Schiff 13 Sociology of legal consciousness and hegemony • Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey 14 Sociology of legal subjectivity • Pierre Guibentif 15 Sociology of legal temporalities • Lyana Francot 16 Sociology of legal images • Linda Mulcahy 17 The sociology of legal professions • Lisa Webley PART III: SOCIOLOGY OF LEGAL DISCIPLINES 18 Sociology of constitutional law and politics • Paul Blokker 19 Sociology of transnational constitutions • Chris Thornhill 20 Sociology of contract and property law • Sarah E. Hamill 21 Property as socio-legal institution, practice, object, idea • Antonia Layard 22 Sociological research in family law: international perspectives within the policy landscape • Mavis Maclean 23 Sociology of law and religion • Russell Sandberg 24 Sociology of health law • Atina Krajewska 25 Sociology of deviance and criminal law • Sharyn Roach Anleu 26 Sociology of housing law • Dave Cowan and Sally Wheeler 27 Sociology of labour law • Ralf Rogowski 28 Sociology of digital law and artificial intelligence • Håkan Hydén 29 Sociology of transitional justice: global and comparative perspectives • Stephan Parmentier and Camilo Umaña Index Sociologies of law and science are increasingly intertwined, offering an important analytic platform from which the join workings of legal and scientific processes can be apprehended and interrogated. This chapter attends to scholarship that has brought together the critical assessment of legal and scientific endeavours, and illustrates how it enabled the breaking of new ground. In particular, the chapter illuminates how new conceptual and methodological engagements have made apparent some of the political dynamics that determine how law functions in societies, and how scientific and legal practices can feed off each other in strengthening pre-existing relationships of institutional power. If the sociology of science has to a great extent enabled legal scholars to approach science as a much less uncertain object than they may have done otherwise, scholarship in law and science has also contributed to destabilizing understandings of the ontology of law - adding new insights into the many ways in which legal authority gets constructed, sustained or defined