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Zusatztext The contributions to this collection provide food for thought.This collection and its individual chapters will no doubt be cited by those seeking to get to grips with European ways of law! its problems! its potential and likely future direction for years to come. Informationen zum Autor Volkmar Gessner was Professor of Sociology of Law and Comparative Law at the Law Faculty and Head of Department at the University of Bremen, Germany. David Nelken is Professor of Comparative and Transnational Law and past Vice-Dean for Research at King’s College London, UK. Widely published in sociology of law and in criminology, he has received awards from the American Sociological Association, the American Society of Criminology, the International Sociological Association, and the (USA) Law and Society Association. He has twice been a Trustee of the LSA and Vice-President of the RSCL. Klappentext 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 collection, which also overlaps into comparative law, legal history, and legal philosophy. The richness of approaches reflected in the essays including comparisons with the US 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 Zusammenfassung This book looks at the uncertainties which arise when attempting to answer the question; can there be such a thing as a European sociology of law Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Studying European Ways of Law Volkmar Gessner, David Nelken A - Theorising ‘European’ Legal Culture 1. Images of Europe in Sociolegal Traditions Roger Cotterrell 2. American and European Ways of Law: Six Entrenched Differences Robert A Kagan 3. La place paradoxale de la culture juridique Americaine dans la mondialisation Antoine Garapon 4. Globalisation and the Rise of Procedural Informalism in Europe and America Wolf Heydebrand 5. American and European Forms of Social Theory reflecting Social Practice Richard Münch B - Re-constructing Europe 6. ‘Cold War Law’: Legal Entrepreneurs and the Emergence of a European Legal Field (1945–1965) Antonin Cohen and Mikael Rask Madsen 7. The Transformation of Sub-State Nationalism in Conflicted Societies: the Impact of European Constitutionalism Victoria Jennett 8. Is There the Spirit of the European Laws? Critical Remarks on the EU Constitution-making, Enlargement and Political Culture Jirí Pribán 9. How to Conceptualise Law in European Union Integration Processes? Perspectives from the Literature and Empirical Research Bettina Lange C - European Styles of Legal Regulation 10. 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 11. Embedded and Disembedded Rationality: Contributions to Global Governance from European and US American Legal Cultures Gerd Winter 12. Dutch Legal Culture and Technological Transitions—the Impact of Dutch Government Interventions Helen Stout and Martin de Jong 13. Early Intervention and the Cultures of Youth Justice: A Comparison of Italy ...
