Combining the Legal and the Social in Sociology of Law
Hydén, Håkan / Cotterrell, Roger / Nelken, David / Schultz, Ulrike
This open access book pays homage to Reza Banakar, who passed away in August 2020, exploring the many different areas of socio-legal research that he worked on and influenced. It begins with a summary of his career and explains how he sparked a debate on the identity and aims of legal sociology.
The book is then split into 5 sections:
- Theory, including chapters on normativity and the stepchild controversy,
- Methods and interdisciplinari...
