Research Catalog

Title

European ways of law : towards a european sociology of law / edited by Volkmar Gessner and David Nelken.

Author

Oñati Socio-Legal Conference (1st : 2005 : Oñati, Spain)

Publication

Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gessner, Volkmar
• Nelken, David

Description

xiv, 393 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Can there be such a thing as a European sociology of law? The uncertainties which arise when attempting to answer that straightforward question are the subject of this book, which also overlaps into comparative law, legal history, and legal philosophy. The richness of approaches reflected in the essays (including comparisons with the US) makes this volume a courageous attempt to show the present state of socio- legal studies in Europe and map directions for its future development. Certainly we already know something about the existence of differences in the use and meaning of law within and between the nation states and groups that make up the European Union. They concern the role of judges and lawyers, the use of courts, patterns of delay, contrasts in penal 'sensibilities', or the meanings of underlying legal and social concepts. Still, similarities in 'legal culture' are at least as remarkable in societies at roughly similar levels of political and economic development. The volume should serve as a needed stimulus to a research agenda aimed at uncovering commonalities and divergences in European ways of approaching the law."--pub. desc.

Series Statement

Oñati international series in law and society

Subject

• Law > European Union countries > Congresses
• Law > United States > Congresses
• Sociological jurisprudence > Congresses
• Europe > Economic integration > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Konferenzschrift – 6.-8.07.2005 – Oñati.
• Aufsatzsammlung.
• Congresses (form)
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• "The First European Socio-Legal Conference under the title 'European ways of law'"--Acknowledgements.
• "[P]apers presented at the first European sociolegal conference on this topic, held at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Basque Country, Spain, on 6-8 July 2005"--P. [1].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• In English; with one contribution in French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Studying European ways of law / Volkmar Gessner, David Nelken -- Images of Europe in sociolegal traditions / Roger Cotterrell -- American and European ways of law : six entrenched differences / Robert A. Kagan -- La place paradoxale de la culture juridique Americaine dans la mondialisation / Antoine Garapon -- Globalisation and the rise of procedural informalism in Europe and America / Wolf Heydebrand -- American and European forms of social theory reflecting social practice / Richard Münch -- "Cold War law" : legal entrepreneurs and the emergence of a European legal field (1945-1965) / Antonin Cohen and Mikael Rask Madsen -- The transformation of sub-state nationalism in conflicted societies : the impact of European constitutionalism / Victoria Jennett -- Is there the spirit of European laws? : critical remarks on the EU constitution-making, enlargement and political culture / Jiří Přibáň -- How to conceptualise law in European Union integration processes? : perspectives from the literature and empirical research / Bettina Lange -- EU ways of governing the marketing of pharmaceuticals : a shift towards more integration, better consumer protection, and better regulation? / Bärbel Dorbeck-Jung and Mirjan Oude Vrielink-van Heffen -- Embedded and disembedded rationality : contributions to global governance from European and US American legal cultures / Gerd Winter -- Dutch legal culture and technological transitions : the impact of Dutch government interventions / Helen Stout and Martin de Jong -- Early intervention and the cultures of youth justice : a comparison of Italy and Wales / Stewart Field and David Nelken.

ISBN

• 1841137774
• 9781841137773 (hardback)
• 9781841137780 (pbk.)
• 1841137782 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008271433

OCLC

• 171112410
• SCSB-9941548

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library