Socio-Legal Trajectories Across Europe

Comparative Perspectives

Jennifer Hendry editor Naomi Creutzfeldt editor Dr Christian Boulanger editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publishing:12th Jun '25

£90.00

This title is due to be published on 12th June, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Socio-Legal Trajectories Across Europe cover

This book is the first self-reflective and comparative engagement with the interdisciplinary question of socio-legal trajectories, traditions, cultures, practices, and strategies across research and pedagogy.

This collection explores the development of socio-legal/law and society approaches within and across Europe, focusing self-reflexively on academic and legal cultures, institutions, kinship, and scholarly agency.

What makes a socio-legal approach socio-legal? How does it differ across legal cultures, countries, or regions? How do scholarly identities develop and change in academia’s places, spaces, and contexts? This collection features contributions from socio-legal scholars who engage in a critical examination of their own work. They delve into the underlying motivations behind their research questions, as well as the methods and theories they employ. This process involves reflecting on these aspects within the broader legal and academic landscape in which they operate, taking into account their personal journeys and the historical trajectories of their research fields. The chapters not only contextualise individual socio-legal research within intellectual, institutional, and political frameworks but also explore national and transnational developments, influences, networks, and conversations.

With an emphasis on exploring the link between contextual structures and scholarly agency, underpinned by self-reflection, the contributions provide a fresh and fascinating comparative perspective on contemporary socio-legal studies.

ISBN: 9781509982622

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256 pages