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Exploring the 'Legal' in Socio-Legal Studies

Hardback

Main Details

Title Exploring the 'Legal' in Socio-Legal Studies
Authors and Contributors      Edited by David Cowan
Contributions by Caroline Hunter
Contributions by Emilie Cloatre
Contributions by Jiri Priban
Edited by Daniel Wincott
SeriesPalgrave Socio-Legal Studies
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:274
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 155
ISBN/Barcode 9781137344366
ClassificationsDewey:340.115
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Edition 1st ed. 2016
Illustrations XI, 274 p.

Publishing Details

Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date 3 December 2015
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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 social science and humanity disciplines, the contributions to Exploring the 'Legal' in Socio-Legal Studies illustrate the value of a focus on the 'legal'. The chapters in this book combine traditional legal materials and analyses with other ways of engaging empirically with the 'legal'. They illustrate the rich potential of the 'legal' as a site both for theoretical and methodological reflection and for case study analysis. Taken as a whole, this volume demonstrates that methodological discussion is most helpful when rooted in empirical cases, and that the best case studies also help us to develop our methodologies. Bringing methodology and empirical analysis together offers an opportunity to reflect on socio-legal studies and develop the discipline in productive new directions.

Author Biography

David Cowan is Professor of Law and Policy at the University of Bristol, UK. Daniel Wincott is Blackwell Professor of Law and Society and Head of Cardiff School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University, UK.