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Author: Roger Cotterrell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.660kg
ISBN: 9781138052833
ISBN 10: 1138052833
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 12 December 2017
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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In Sociological Jurisprudence, Roger Cotterrell convincingly argues that we need a broadly interdisciplinary, empirically grounded understanding of the social not only to understand how law actually operates in everyday life but to guide jurists in pursuing law's practical projects in the world. His insights are particularly useful for conceptualizing the very nature of a legal system given that legal and quasi-legal authorities inevitably operate in negotiation with each other and often do so without stable hierarchies to guide them. Providing both a summation of Cotterrell's prolific career and a forward-looking roadmap for scholars and jurists, Sociological Jurisprudence is a must-read for all who are interested in understanding and advancing law in the 21st century. Paul Schiff Berman, Walter S. Cox Professor of Law, The George Washington University In this important and wide ranging addition to his considerable corpus Cotterrell nails his colours to the mast of sociological jurisprudence showing how, once distinguished from legal philosophy as well as from a social science of law, it can help in understanding the values law should be pursuing in the present period. David Nelken, Professor of Comparative and Transnational Law, Dickson Poon Law school, Kings College, London Cotterrell offers a sustained statement of the vital role of the sociologically-informed jurist in exploring the general idea of law, and applies his account, suitably developed for the twenty-first century, to emerging transnational legal phenomena and the clarification of legal values. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in general questions about law, both within and across states. Michael Giudice, PhD, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Department of Philosophy York University, Toronto, Canada For much of the last century, jurisprudence has been pre-occupied by the question of its relationship to law as a social phenomenon. In this impressive volume, one the key figures in the debate builds a compelling case for the need for a sociological jurisprudence capable of articulating the idea of law amid diverse contexts and changing conditions for law's authority, systematicity and unity. Nicola Lacey, School Professor of Law, Gender and Social Policy, LSE Roger Cotterrell is an eminent scholar who combines juristic knowledge, sociological imagination and political values in a sensitive and brilliant manner. He has inspired generations of legal theorists and socio-legal scholars and keeps reminding us that sociological theory and interpretation must be intrinsic to legal scholarship, education and practice. In Sociological Jurisprudence Cotterrell carefully and incisively reads the works of Durkheim, Weber, Pound and many other sociologists and theorists of law to demonstrate the importance of classic theories and concepts in understanding current problems in global legal pluralism and transnational law. Jiri Priban, Professor of Sociology and Theory of Law, Cardiff University In Sociological Jurisprudence, Roger Cotterrell showsã how sociology can offer important guidance to the committedã jurist - and to legal theory -- in this time of increasing legalã pluralism, multiculturalism, and transnational law. Brian H. Bix, Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Minnesota
Author Information
Roger Cotterrell is Anniversary Professor of Legal Theory at Queen Mary University of London. Educated as a lawyer and a sociologist, he has written widely on sociology of law, jurisprudence and comparative law, and is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the (UK) Academy of Social Sciences.
