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Exploring the 'Legal' in Socio-Legal Studies

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Editors:
  1. David Cowan

    1. University of Bristol Law School, UK

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  2. Daniel Wincott

    1. Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University, UK

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  • High quality contributions from several big names in the field
  • Of wide interest to the sociolegal community
  • Editors are wellknown and influential

Part of the book series: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies (PSLS)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Exploring the ‘Legal’

    1. Exploring the ‘Legal’

      • David Cowan, Daniel Wincott
      Pages 1-31

  4. Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. Solar Panels, Homeowners and Leases: The Lease as a Socio-Legal Object

      • Caroline Hunter
      Pages 137-156

    3. Bringing the Technical into the Socio-legal: The Metaphors of Law and Legal Scholarship of a Twenty-First Century European Union

      • Paul James Cardwell, Tamara Hervey
      Pages 157-182

    4. Territory and Human Rights: Mandatory Possession Proceedings

      • David Cowan
      Pages 183-203

    5. Legal Technology in an Age of Austerity: Documentation, ‘Functional’ Incontinence and the Problem of Dignity

      • Helen Carr
      Pages 204-224

    6. Following the Law or Using the Law? Decision-Making in Medical Manslaughter

      • Andrew Sanders, Danielle Griffiths
      Pages 225-244

    7. Conclusions: A Socio-Legal Metatheory

      • Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
      Pages 245-256

    8. Afterword: A Method More Than a Subject

      • Annelise Riles
      Pages 257-264

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 265-274
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Bristol Law School, UK

    David Cowan

  • Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University, UK

    Daniel Wincott

About the editors

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Exploring the 'Legal' in Socio-Legal Studies

  • Editors: David Cowan, Daniel Wincott

  • Series Title: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-34437-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-34436-6Published: 03 December 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-34437-3Published: 01 March 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2947-9274

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-9282

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 274

  • Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History

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