This book presents a unified set of arguments about the nature of jurisprudence and its relation to the jurist’s role. It explores contemporary challenges that create a need for social scientific pers
This book presents a unified set of arguments about the nature of jurisprudence and its relation to the jurist’s role. It explores contemporary challenges that create a need for social scientific pers
Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and AccountingPresenting a distinctive approach to the study of law in society and through a range of specific studies, this book seeks to integrat
The Politics of Jurisprudence explores what jurisprudence is about, what it seeks to do, how it does it and - most importantly - how its conclusions can be brought to bear on everyday problems of lega
This book presents a distinctive approach to the study of law in society, focusing on the sociological interpretation of legal ideas. It surveys the development of connections between legal studies an
Cotterrell: The Sociology of Law offers a distinctive view of contemporary law in Western societies and provides a clear analytical framework for the study of the diverse literature relating to its fi
This volume focuses on three closely-connected aspects of A?mile Durkheim's work: his sociology of justice, his sociology of morality and his political sociology. These areas of his thought are the mo
Part of the International Library of Essays in Law and Society series, this volume addresses the interactions between legal studies and the work of social theorists. Cotterrell (Queen Mary and Westfie
The increasing transnationalisation of regulation – and social life more generally – challenges the basic concepts of legal and political theory today. One of the key concepts being so challenged is a
