Sociology of Law - Victimology, Scepticism in Law, Judicial Activism, Legal Culture, Jawahir Thontowi, Legal Formalism, Legal Realism (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Victimology, Scepticism in law, Judicial activism, Legal culture, Jawahir Thontowi, Legal formalism, Legal realism, Reasonable doubt, Rational-legal authority, Pat Lauderdale, Research Committee on Sociology of Law, Eugen Ehrlich, Regulation through litigation, Legal anthropology, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Judicial activism in the European Union, Jury research, Renato Treves, Law and development, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Portia Hypothesis. Excerpt: The sociology of law (or legal sociology) is often described as a sub-discipline of sociology or an interdisciplinary approach within legal studies. While some socio-legal scholars see the sociology of law as "necessarily" belonging to the discipline of sociology, others see it as a field of research caught up in the disciplinary tensions and competitions between the two established disciplines of law and sociology. Yet, others regard it neither as a sub-discipline of sociology nor as a branch of legal studies and, instead, present it as a field of research on its own right within a broader social science tradition. For example, Roger Cotterrell describes the sociology of law without reference to mainstream sociology as "the systematic, theoretically grounded, empirical study of law as a set of social practices or as an aspect or field of social experience." Irrespective of whether the sociology of law is defined as a sub-discipline of sociology, an approach within legal studies, or a field of research in its own right, it remains intellectually dependent mainly on mainstream sociology, and to lesser extent on other social sciences such as social anthropology, political science, social policy, criminology and psychology, i.e. it draws on social theories and employs social scientific methods to study law, legal institutions and legal behaviour. M...