Book Launch - "Socio-legal Trajectories across Europe: Comparative Perspectives"

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This book brings together academics from across Europe to reflect on what they are doing as socio-legal scholars. We asked them to think about: how they became the academics they are today, what motivated the questions they were asking, and the methods and theories they were using. In the chapters they explore these themes against the background of the legal and academic context in which they worked. Thus, chapters in this book connect the individual scholar with the intellectual, institutional, and political context which has influenced it, and to which it reacted. They ask, for example, which theoretical traditions were crucial in their academic socialization or which role gender aspects or research evaluation played in their career. This novel approach combines scholarly self-reflection with a historical perspective on the history of socio-legal studies between law and the social sciences.  In the introduction, the editors provide a heuristic framework to compare and make sense of these different, double trajectories, and show how, going forward, professional life-stories of socio-legal scholars can be theoretically analysed in order to better understand the many different ways in which the field develops internationally.

Editors

Christian Boulanger

Naomi Creutzfeldt

Jen Hendry

Table of contents

1. Christian Boulanger, Naomi Creutzfeldt, Jen Hendry: Zooming in, zooming out: socio-legal trajectories between country studies and scholarly self-reflection
2. Marta Bucholc, The Comeback of Law: Theoretical Foundations and Research Traditions of Socio-Legal Studies in Poland after 1989
3. Balázs Fekete, Socio-Legal Studies in Contemporary Hungarian Legal Scholarship: Successes and Challenges
4. Samir Forić, Sociology of Law in the Western Balkans: Instrumentality, Liminality and Beyond
5. Ole Hammerslev, Outline of a Danish Socio-Legal Trajectory Interconnected with Sociology of Law in Norway and Sweden
6. Liora Israël, At the Crossroads of Sociology and Law: An Essay in Socio-Analysis
7. Eva Kocher, Interdisciplinary Labour Law Studies: From Critical Legal Studies to the Sociology of Law and Back Again
8. Revital Madar, On the Matter of the Law and Socio-Legal Identification
9. Francisca Pou-Gimenez, A Eurolatin Career in Comparative Public Law: From Analytic Legal Theory to Sociology of Law
10. Sally Wheeler, Socio-Legal Studies in the United Kingdom—A Personal Reflection