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What are the different institutional, intellectual and biographical trajectories in socio-legal studies, and how can they be compared? This book brings together scholars from across Europe to reflect on the socio-political, legal and academic contexts in which they became the academics they are today. The chapters link individual scholars to the historical and contemporary factors that have shaped or influenced their work and careers – a novel approach that combines scholarly self-reflection with a historical perspective on the development of socio-legal studies between law and the social sciences. The editors provide a heuristic framework for comparing and making sense of these different, dual trajectories, and show how professional scholarly biographies can be both contextualised and analysed with a view to shedding light on broader academic fields, both nationally and internationally.

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Author:   Dr Christian Boulanger (Max Planck Institute, Germany) ,  Naomi Creutzfeldt (University of Kent, UK) ,  Jennifer Hendry (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) ,  David Nelken (King's College London UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Hart Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9781509982622

ISBN 10:   1509982620
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   12 June 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Boulanger, Creutzfeldt, and Hendry 2. The Comeback of Law: Theoretical Foundations and Research Traditions of Socio-Legal Studies in Poland after 1989, Marta Bucholc (University of Warsaw, Poland) 3. Socio-Legal Studies in Contemporary Hungarian Legal Scholarship. Successes and Challenges, Balázs Fekete, (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary) 4. ‘Only Connect’: the Migrant Origins and Global Future of UK Socio-Legal Studies, John Harrington (Cardiff Law School, UK) 5. At the Crossroads. A Socio-Analytic Perspective on Methods and Theories, Liora Israël (The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, France) 6. “Interdisciplinary Labour Law Studies”: from Critical Legal Studies to Socio-Legal Studies, and Back Again, Eva Kocher (Europa-Universität Viadrina, Germany) 7. On the Matter of the Law and Socio-Legal Identifications, Revital Madar (European University Institute, Italy) 8. Interconnected Scandinavian Socio-Legal Trajectories, Ole Hammerslev (Lund University, Sweden) 9. Socio-legal Scholarship in the Western Balkans Region, Samir Foric (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) 10. Interlocking Lives, Interlocking Theories: The Evolving Understandings of Law in Latin America and Southern Europe, Francisca Pou Jimenez (ITAM, Mexico) 11. Interviewing Scholars: Some Methodological and Comparative Reflections, Julika Botschek and Finn Haberkost (Max Planck Institute, Germany)

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Christian Boulanger is Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History & Theory in Frankfurt, Germany. Naomi Creutzfeldt is Professor of Law and Society at the University of Kent, UK. Jennifer Hendry is Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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