European Ways of Law : Towards a European Sociology of Law.

Half Title Page -- Half Title verso -- Title Page -- Title verso -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: Studying European Ways of Law -- A. Theorising 'European' Legal Culture -- 1. Images of Europe in Sociolegal Traditions -- I. EHRLICH AND THE END OF EMPIRE -- II. WEBER AND EUROPEAN GOVERNMENT -- III. DURKHEIM AND EUROPEAN LEGAL VALUES -- IV. HABERMAS AND EUROPEAN COSMOPOLITANISM -- V. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 2. American and European Ways of Law: Six Entrenched Differences -- I. WHAT IS 'AMERICAN' LAW? -- II. SOURCES OF AMERICAN LEGAL DISTINCTIVENESS -- III. PRESSURES FOR 'AMERICANISATION' IN EUROPEAN LEGAL SYSTEMS -- IV. IMPEDIMENTS TO LEGAL CONVERGENCE: WHY EUROPEAN LEGAL SYSTEMS WILL NOT BE 'AMERICANISED' -- V. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 3. La Place Paradoxale de la Culture Juridique Américaine dans la Mondialisation -- I. UNE CULTURE ATYPIQUE QUI SERT DE REFERENCE -- II. UN DROIT MOINS 'RATIONNEL' ET PLUS OPERATIONNEL -- III. UNE CULTURE A LA FOIS TRES MARCHANDE ET TRES MORALE -- IV. UNE CULTURE A LA FOIS TRES OUVERTE ET TRES FERMÉE -- V. UNE CULTURE HISTORIQUE QUI PREFIGURE L'AVENIR DES SOCIÉTÉS DEMOCRATIQUES -- REFERENCES -- 4. Globalisation and the Rise of Procedural Informalism in American and European Law -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. FORM AND SUBSTANCE AS LEGAL CATEGORIES -- III. THE LOGIC OF NEGOTIATED PROCESS -- IV. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GLOBALISATION -- V. THE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON THE RISE OF PROCEDURAL INFORMALISM -- VI. CHALLENGING THE KAGAN HYPOTHESIS: THE RELATIVE PERSISTENCE OF ADVERSARIAL LEGALISM? -- VII. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 5. American and European Forms of Social Theory Reflecting Social Practice -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. HOW IS ORDER CONCEIVED OF? -- III. CHANGES OF SOCIAL PRACTICE AND THEIR REFLECTION IN SOCIAL THEORY.

IV. CLARIFYING THE ARGUMENT: CONSTRUCTING IDEAL TYPES FOR UNDERSTANDING AND EXPLAINING SPECIFIC FEATURES OF REALITY -- V. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- B. Re-constructing Europe -- 6. Cold War Law: Legal Entrepreneurs and the Emergence of a European Legal Field (1945-1965) -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. UNITING AND COMPETING FOR EUROPE: THE HAGUE CONGRESS AND ITS LEGAL AFTERMATHS -- III. FROM LEGAL COLD WAR TO THE EUROPEAN WAY OF LAW: THE JUDICIARISATION OF EUROPEAN LAW -- IV. AN EMERGING EUROPEAN LEGAL FIELD: CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 7. The Transformation of Sub-State Nationalism in Conflicted Societies: the Impact of European Constitutionalism -- I. THE NATURE OF SUB-STATE NATIONALISM AND CHALLENGES OF ACCOMMODATION -- II. THE TRANSFORMATION OF NATIONALISM -- III. THE (RE)CONFIGURATION OF NATIONALIST ASPIRATIONS WITHIN THE EU POLITICAL COMMUNITY -- IV. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 8. Is there the Spirit of European Laws? Critical Remarks on EU Constitution-making, Enlargement and Political Culture -- I. EUROPEAN LEGALITY, ITS CRITICISMS AND SPIRIT -- II. THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS AND POLITICAL IDENTITY -- III. WHAT KIND OF SPIRIT OF EUROPEAN LAWS?: CONFLICT BETWEEN THE IDENTITY OF DEMOS AND ETHNOS -- IV. THE EUROPEAN STRUGGLE AGAINST THE POLITICAL ROMANTICISM OF ETHNOS AND THE EU ENLARGEMENT OF 2004 -- V. THE ABSENT EUROPEAN DEMOS AND VARIETIES OF EUROPEANISATION -- VI. EUROPEAN CONSTITUTIONAL PATRIOTISM, CULTURE AND HYBRID IDENTITY -- REFERENCES -- 9. How to Conceptualise Law in European Union Integration Processes?-Perspectives from the Literature and Empirical Research -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. PERSPECTIVES FROM THE LITERATURE ON THE NATURE OF LAW IN EU INTEGRATION -- III. OPEN AND CLOSED NORMS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EU IPPC DIRECTIVE.

IV. CONCLUSION: FROM FORMAL, INSTRUMENTAL AND RELATIVELY AUTONOMOUS LAW IN EU INTEGRATION TO VARIATION IN OPEN AND CLOSED NORMS -- REFERENCES -- C. European Styles of Legal Regulation -- 10. EU Ways of Governing the Marketing of Pharmeceuticals-A Shift Towards More Integration, Better Consumer Protection and Better Regulation? -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. EU GOVERNANCE POLICY RELATED TO PHARMACEUTICALS -- III. FRAMES OF ANALYSIS -- IV. STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN THE EU REGULATORY SYSTEM RELATED TO THE APPROVAL OF PHARMACEUTICALS -- V. ANALYSIS OF CHANGES-A SHIFT TOWARDS INCREASING EUROPEANISATION, BETTER CONSUMER PROTECTION AND BETTER REGULATION? -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 11. Embedded and Disembedded Rationality: Contributions to Global Governance from European and US American Legal Cultures -- I. WHAT IS GLOBAL GOVERNANCE? -- II. CASE STUDIES -- III. CAUSES -- REFERENCES -- 12. Dutch Legal Culture and Technological Transitions: the Impact of Dutch Government Interventions -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. CHARACTERISING DUTCH LEGAL CULTURE -- III. A GAME THEORY PERSPECTIVE ON THE USE OF LEGAL INSTRUMENTS -- IV. THE TRANSITION FROM TELEGRAPHY TO TELEPHONY -- V. THE TRANSITION FROM TELEGRAPHY TO TELEPHONY: APPLICATION OF THE GAME THEORY FRAMEWORK -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- DOCUMENTS CONSULTED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER -- REFERENCES -- 13. Early Intervention and the Cultures of Youth Justice: A Comparison of Italy and Wales -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. RESEARCH METHODS -- III. DIVERTING AND INTERVENING IN WALES AND ITALY -- IV. EXPLAINING DIFFERENCE -- V. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL INTERVENTION -- VI. THE 'TONE' OF YOUTH JUSTICE: EXPERTS AND PUBLIC OPINION -- VII. ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT RESPONSIBILITY AND YOUTH -- VIII. FAMILY AND COMMUNITY -- IX. CONCLUSIONS AND FURTHER ISSUES -- REFERENCES -- Index.

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 book, which also overlaps into comparative law, legal history, and legal philosophy. The richness of approaches reflected in the essays (including comparisons with the US) makes this volume a courageous attempt to 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 a research agenda aimed at uncovering commonalities and divergences in European ways of approaching the law.

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