Law and Social Theory

Reza Banakar is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the Department for Advanced Legal Studies, School of Law, University of Westminster and the Director of Research at the Centre for Legal Sociology at Lund University. Max Travers is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania.

• Introduction Reza Banakar and Max TraversSection 1: Classical Sociology of Law Introduction by Reza Banakar and Max Travers1 The Problematisation of Law in Classical Social Theory Alan Hunt2 Sociological Jurisprudence A Javier TrevinoSection 2: Systems Theory Introduction by Reza Banakar and Max Travers3 The Radical Sociology of Niklas Luhmann Michael King4 The Legal Theory of Jürgen Habermas: Between the Philosophy and the Sociology of Law Mathieu Defl emSection 3: Critical Approaches Introduction by Reza Banakar and Max Travers5 Marxism and the Social Theory of Law Robert Fine6 Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology of Law: From the Genesis of the State to the Globalisation of Law Mikael Rask Madsen and Yves Dezalay7 Feminist Legal Theory Harriet Samuels8 Critical Race Theory Angela P HarrisSection 4: Law in Action Introduction by Reza Banakar and Max Travers9 Interpretive Sociologists and Law Max Travers10 Bruno Latour's Legal Anthropology Frédéric Audren and Cédric Moreau de Bellaing11 New Legal Realism and the Empirical Turn in Law Stewart Macaulay and Elizabeth MertzSection 5: Postmodernism Introduction by Reza Banakar and Max Travers12 Foucault and Law Gary Wickham13 Law and Postmodernism Shaun McVeigh14 Postcolonial Theories of Law Eve Darian-SmithSection 6: Law in a Global Society Introduction by Reza Banakar and Max Travers15 Reviewing Legal Pluralism Anne Griffiths16 Globalisation and Law: Law Beyond the State Ralf Michaels17 Law and Regulation in Late Modernity Reza Banakar18 Studies of the Legal Profession Ole Hammerslev19 Comparative Sociology of Law David Nelken

This book skillfully provides a comprehensive overview of classical and contemporary approaches to the sociology of law.