European Ways of Law

Volkmar Gessner is Professor of Sociology of Law and Comparative Law at the Law Faculty and Head of Department at the University of Bremen, Germany. David Nelken is Distinguished Professor of Legal Institutions and Social Change at the University of Macerata, Italy; Distinguished Research Professor of Law, University of Wales, Cardiff and Visiting Professor of Law at the London School of Economics, UK. He has been chosen for the 2009 Sellin- Glueck award in criminology, the highest award given by the American Society of Criminology to scholars from outside the USA. He will be presented with the award - for his 'extraordinary record of scholarship' - at the Society's international conference in Philadelphia in November.

• Introduction: Studying European Ways of Law Volkmar Gessner, David NelkenA - Theorising ‘European’ Legal Culture 1. Images of Europe in Sociolegal Traditions Roger Cotterrell2. American and European Ways of Law: Six Entrenched Differences Robert A Kagan3. La place paradoxale de la culture juridique Americaine dans la mondialisationAntoine Garapon4. Globalisation and the Rise of Procedural Informalism in Europe and America Wolf Heydebrand5. American and European Forms of Social Theory reflecting Social PracticeRichard MünchB - Re-constructing Europe6. ‘Cold War Law’: Legal Entrepreneurs and the Emergence of a European Legal Field (1945–1965)Antonin Cohen and Mikael Rask Madsen7. The Transformation of Sub-State Nationalism in Conflicted Societies: the Impact of European ConstitutionalismVictoria Jennett8. Is There the Spirit of the European Laws? Critical Remarks on the EU Constitution-making, Enlargement and Political CultureJirí Pribán 9. How to Conceptualise Law in European Union Integration Processes? Perspectives from the Literature and Empirical Research Bettina Lange C - European Styles of Legal Regulation 10. EU Ways of Governing the Marketing of Pharmaceuticals—a Shift towards more Integration, Better Consumer Protection and Better Regulation?Bärbel Dorbeck-Jung and Mirjan Oude Vrielink-van Heffen11. Embedded and Disembedded Rationality: Contributions to Global Governance from European and US American Legal CulturesGerd Winter12. Dutch Legal Culture and Technological Transitions—the Impact of Dutch Government InterventionsHelen Stout and Martin de Jong13. Early Intervention and the Cultures of Youth Justice: A Comparison of Italy and WalesStewart Field and David Nelken

...the first of its kind in trying to assess if there is a distinctive European way of dealing with law and society, and their answer is definitely in the affirmative...a very courageous attempt to tackle many issues and will definitely generate further debate and new research. For this reason only, the volume should be of great interest to the many sociologists of law in Europe, and to the many more interested in this discipline. At the same time its value extends far beyond these two groups, as this volume should be of equal importance to sociologists of law in other parts of the world interested in learning about the European approach in its various dimensions. Stephan Parmentier Law & Society Review Vol. 42, No. 4. (December 2008) A very comprehensive source of nuanced information and ideas on the sociology of European law. Tba European Library No. 9604/766 The contributions to this collection provide food for thought. This collection and its individual chapters will no doubt be cited by those seeking to get to grips with European ways of law, its problems, its potential and likely future direction for years to come. Mark Flear European Law Review Volume 35, 2010