Subject
Main issues in contemporary sociology of law
General details of the subject
- Mode
- Face-to-face degree course
- Language
- English
Teaching staff
Name | Institution | Category | Doctor | Teaching profile | Area | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FUKURAI , HIROSHI | University of California, Santa Cruz | Otros | Doctor |
Competencies
Name | Weight |
---|---|
Conocimiento de los conceptos y teorías básicas de la sociología jurídica | 40.0 % |
Conocimiento de los instrumentos metodólogicos principales que usa la sociología jurídica. | 30.0 % |
Análisis del cambio y del orden en las sociedades contemporáneas y su impacto sobre el derecho | 30.0 % |
Study types
Type | Face-to-face hours | Non face-to-face hours | Total hours |
---|---|---|---|
Lecture-based | 5 | 0 | 5 |
Seminar | 25 | 45 | 70 |
Training activities
Name | Hours | Percentage of classroom teaching |
---|---|---|
Case analysis | 20.0 | 100 % |
Discussion | 5.0 | 100 % |
Text analysis | 20.0 | 100 % |
Written discussion of a topic | 30.0 | 10 % |
Assessment systems
Name | Minimum weighting | Maximum weighting |
---|---|---|
Attendance and participation | 50.0 % | 50.0 % |
Evaluation by means of the presentation of projects | 50.0 % | 50.0 % |
Written examination | 50.0 % | 50.0 % |
Temary
Philosophy and the Rule of Law: Institutional accountsThe Value of the Rule of Law: Negative conceptions
The Value of the Rule of Law: `Positive Conceptions
Sociology and the Rule of Law
Bibliography
Compulsory materials
Brian Z. Tamanaha, `A Concise Guide to the Rule of Law, in Gianluigi Palombella and Neil Walker, eds., Relocating the Rule of Law, Hart, Oxford, 3-15.Martin Krygier, "The Rule of Law," Michel Rosenfeld and András Sajó, eds., Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law, Oxford University Press, 2012, 233-49
Lon L. Fuller, The Morality of Law, Yale University Press, 1961, chapter 2.
Jeremy Waldron, `The Rule of Law and the Importance of Procedure, in James E. Fleming, ed., Getting to the Rule of Law, Nomos no.50, New York University Press, 2011, 3-30.
Joseph Raz, `The Rule of Law and its Virtue" in The Authority of Law Oxford UP, 1979, 210-29.
E. P. Thompson, Whigs and Hunters, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1975, 258-79.
`Why the Rule of Law is too important to be left to lawyers," (2012) 2,2 Prawo i Wi (Law & Social Bonds) 30-52
Marina Kurkchiyan, `The Illegitimacy of Law in Post-Communist Societies", in Galligan and Kurkchiyan, eds., Law and Informal Practices. The Post-Communist Experience, Oxford University Press, 2003, 25-46.
In-depth bibliography
Blandine Kriegel, The State and the Rule of Law, Princeton University Press, 1995, 3-10.Martin Krygier, extract from `Four Puzzles about the Rule of Law: why, what where? And who cares? in in James E. Fleming, ed., Getting to the Rule of Law, Nomos no.50, New York University Press, 2011, at 64-73
Judith N. Shklar, `Political Theory and the Rule of Law,¿ in her Political Thought and Political Thinkers, University of Chicago Press, 1998, 21-37.
Philip Selznick, `Legal Cultures and the Rule of Law, in Martin Krygier and Adam Czarnota, eds., Law after Communism, Ashgate, Aldershot, 1999, 21-38.
Sally Falk Moore, `Law and social change: the semi-autonomous social field as an appropriate subject of study, in Law as Process, Routledge, London, 54-81
Brian Z. Tamanaha, `"The Rule of Law and Legal Pluralism in Development," in Brian Z. Tamanaha, Caroline Sage, , and Michael Woolcock, eds., Legal Pluralism and Development, Cambridge University Press, 2012, 34-49
Antal Örkény and Kim Scheppele, `Rules of Law: the Complexity of Legality in Hungary¿ in Martin Krygier, Adam Czarnota (eds.) The Rule of Law after Communism, Ashgate/Dartmouth, Aldershot, 55-76
Journals
Marc Galanter, `Justice in Many Rooms: Courts, Private Ordering and Indigenous Law, (1981) 19 Journal of Legal Pluralism, 1-35.Available at: http://www.jlp.bham.ac.uk/volumes/19/galanter-art.pdf
Amartya Sen, `What is the Role of Legal and Judicial Reform in the Development Process" http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTLAWJUSTINST/Resources/legalandjudicial.pdf
Extracts from Stephen Holmes, `In Case of Emergency: Misunderstanding Tradeoffs in the War on Terror' (2009) 97(2) California Law Review 301-55. Available at:
Marina Kurkchiyan, `The Illegitimacy of Law in Post-Communist Societies', in Galligan and Kurkchiyan, eds., Law and Informal Practices. The Post-Communist Experience, Oxford University Press, 2003, 25-46.
Marc Hertogh, `A sociology of the Rule of Law: why, what, where" And who cares," (2013) 34, 1 Recht der Werkelijkheid, 42-46
Martin Krygier, ``Still a Rule of Law Guy,' (2013) 34, 1 Recht der Werkelijkheid 47-55