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Informationen zum Autor Maksymilian Del Mar is Reader in Legal Theory at Queen Mary University of London! UK and Michael Giudice! York University! Canada Zusammenfassung Discusses various aspects of the relationship of legal theory and the social sciences: methodological disputes and collaboration; common problems, especially as they concern different modes of explanation of social behaviour; and, common objects, including, most prominently, the study of language in its social context and normative pluralism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; Part I Methodology: Collaborations and Disputes: The Concept of Law and social theory! Martin Krygier; Legal theory and social theory! Kim Lane Scheppele; An analytical map of social scientific approaches to the concept of law! Brian Z. Tamanaha; Why must legal ideas be interpreted sociologically?! Roger Cotterrell; Analytical jurisprudence versus descriptive sociology revisited! Nicola Lacey; Legal research and the social sciences! Christopher McCrudden; Is law really a social science? A view from comparative law! Geoffrey Samuel. Part II Common Problems: Modes of Explanation of Behaviour: How the law thinks: towards a constructivist epistemology of law! Gunther Teubner; Law and spontaneous order: Hayek's contribution to legal theory! A.I. Ogus; The normativity of law! Lewis A. Kornhauser; Using the concept of legal culture! David Nelken; The law as social practice: are shared activities at the foundations of law?! Matthew Noah Smith. Part III Common Objects: Modes of Explanation of Legal Phenomena: Law as tradition! Martin Krygier; Language! law! and social meanings: linguistic/anthropological contributions to the study of law! Elizabeth Mertz; Mute law! Rodolfo Sacco; Social science and diffusion of law! William Twining; Understanding legal pluralism: past to present! local to global! Brian Z. Tamanaha; Name index.
