Exploring the 'Legal' in Socio-Legal Studies

David Cowan is Professor of Law and Policy at the University of Bristol, UK.   Daniel Wincott is Blackwell Professor of Law and Society and Head of Cardiff School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University, UK.

• Exploring the legal; David Cowan and Daniel Wincott .- PART I: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES .- 1. Debt, Death, and Redemption: Toward a Soterial-Legal History of the Turner Rebellion; Christopher Tomlins .- 2. The Concept of Law in Global Societal Constitutionalism; Ji?í P?ibá? .- 3. Portraying the Legal in Socio-Legal Studies through Legal-Naming Events; Natalie Ohana .- 4. Sex/Gender Equality: Taking a Break from the Legal to Transform the Social; Sharon Cowan .- PART II: CASE STUDIES .- 5. Fluid Legal Labels and the Circulation of Socio-technical Objects: the Multiple Lives of 'Fake' Medicines; Emilie Cloatre .- 6. Solar Panels, Home Owners and Leases: the Lease as a Socio-legal Object; Caroline Hunter .- 7. Bringing the Technical into the Socio-legal: The Metaphors of Law and Legal Scholarship of a 21st Century European Union; Paul James Cardwell and Tamara Hervey .- 8. Territory and Human Rights: Mandatory Possession Proceedings; David Cowan .- 9. Legal Technology in an Age of Austerity:Documentation, 'Functional' Incontinence and the Problem of Dignity; Helen Carr .- 10. Following the Law or Using the Law? Decision Making in Medical Manslaughter; Andrew Sanders and Danielle Griffiths .- A Sociolegal Metatheory; Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos .- Afterword; Annelise Riles.