scholarly journals Law and Society Studies in Context: Suggestions for a Cross-Country Comparison of Socio-Legal Research and Teaching

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 1332-1344
Author(s):  
Tanja Herklotz
Keyword(s):  
Legal Education ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Legal Scholarship ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Different Parts

AbstractCultures of legal and socio-legal scholarship, like legal cultures themselves, are shaped by their respective historical, cultural, economic, and socio-political context. Socio-legal—or law and society—studies are thus pursued and taught differently in different parts of the world. This Article suggests making socio-legal studies the object of comparative research, so as to understand and explain commonalities, differences, and context dependencies in socio-legal scholarship and teaching in different countries. Such comparative endeavors help to translate between different academic languages and to critically reflect upon one’s own research methods and system of legal education. They prove useful for scholars planning research in other parts of the world or engaging in cross-country collaborative research projects, and for research institutions and policymakers involved in reforming research funding and legal education. But how do we go about comparing socio-legal studies? More specifically, why, what, and how do we compare, and what are the challenges that we may face when pursuing such comparative endeavors? This Article gives an overview of potential research questions that a comparison between socio-legal studies may address, the sources that comparativists may draw on, the methods such a comparative endeavor may use to collect and analyze data, and the challenges researchers may face when attempting to compare socio-legal studies in different parts of the world.

“Critical Empricism” and American Critical Legal Studies: Paradox, Program, or Pandora's Box?

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Trubek ◽  
John Esser
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
Sociology Of Law ◽  
Critical Legal Studies ◽  
Critical Sociology ◽  
Legal Scholarship ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
The Law

What should we make of Susan Silbey's call for socio-legal scholarship that is both critical and empirical? Do we think the law and society movement can and should develop a critique of the legal order? Can empirical research contribute to such a critique? Does the idea of a “critical sociology of law” make any sense at all?

Visions of international law: An interdisciplinary retrospective

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 837-869
Author(s):  
Karen J. Alter
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
The World ◽  
Special Lecture ◽  
Political Choices ◽  
The Law ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
Formal Rules

AbstractTaking the opportunity of this LJIL special lecture, Professor Alter provides an interdisciplinary retrospective that explains, defends and critiques six common visions of international law: The naïve political scientist’s expectations about international law as a fixed reflection of political choices; the legal formalist and structural theorist who believes that formal rules, institutions, and processes should generate similar outcomes in different parts of the world; the Western centric scholar’s notion that one can draw general lessons based on European and American experiences; the liberal internationalist who believes that multilateral processes generate consent based agreements and outcomes; the law and society scholar whose focus on the local can minimize international structural elements; and the international legal sociologist who believes that meanings and practices constitute international law. After reflecting on what each vision captures and misses about international law, Professor Alter identifies the policy stakes of residing within a vision. While we need to draw from multiple visions to understand the hybridity of international law, we also need to understand the implicit presumptions of each vision, as these presumptions generate contradictory prescriptive recommendations.

scholarly journals The Limits of Socio-Legal Radicalism

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 700-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Harrington ◽  
Ambreena Manji
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
25Th Anniversary ◽  
Legal Scholarship ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
The Third ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Third World

In this review to mark the 25th anniversary of Social and Legal Studies ( SLS), we offer an assessment of the evolution of socio-legal scholarship on the Third World. We seek to locate the journal in the broader history of socio-legal studies and legal education in the United Kingdom and to consider its engagement with the work of Third World scholars. In order to do this, we recall the founding commitment of the journal’s first editorial board to non-western perspectives on law and locate this commitment both historically and biographically. We explore a number of important interventions concerned with socio-legal studies in the Third World, but also point to significant gaps and omissions since 1992. To end, we argue for a reassertion of SLS’s founding commitments to anti-imperial scholarship and the challenges posed by critical, non-western perspectives.

Asking the Right Question

1994 ◽  
Vol 19 (03) ◽  
pp. 605-608
Author(s):  
Frank Munger
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship

Marianne Constable's essay, “Genealogy and Jurisprudence,” brings the intellectual history of the law and society field within the framework of Nietzsche's six-stage history of metaphysics. Reorganized within that framework, the work of particular law and society scholars is seen to represent stages of thought about the relationship between the world of appearances described in empirical research and the possibilities for human action. Successive movements among law and society scholars pass, like Nietzsche's history of metaphysics, through stages of “error” (positivism, empiricism, critical legal studies, interpretive studies, constitutive theory), moving closer to complete acceptance of the view that action need not follow either legal rules or empirically described patterns and, thus, can be free.

scholarly journals Tantangan dan Peluang Pendidikan Islam di Era Mea

TRANSFORMATIF ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ali Sibram Malisi
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Political Liberalization ◽  
National Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Skilled Workforce ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
National Economies

<p>Globalization is a process of integration of the national economies of Nations into a global economic system. Globalization also a cultural process which is characterized by the existence of a tendency of the regions in the world, both geographically as well as physically, being uniform in format of social, cultural, economic, and political. In social life, global process has created a culture of egalitarianism, in triggering the emergence of internationalization of culture, creating economic interdependence in the process of production and marketing, and in the field of political liberalization creates. Although globalization campaigned as the era of the future, a promising era of ' economic growth will bring globally and global prosperity for all. The challenge of national education is growing. Because in the era of the MEA challenge is one of the free flow of skilled workforce ASEAN cross country. If a resource teacher in Indonesia still covered a variety of flaws at both aspects of the competency, qualification, productivity, and well-being, then they can be marginalized in regional and global competition. To that end, the efforts of professional development teachers need to touch up the most fundamental aspects in a change of their competencies</p>

Global Governance from Regional Perspectives

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
Culturally Informed ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Governance Institutions ◽  
Different Parts

This book investigates, discusses, and confronts the different cultural and geopolitical understandings of global governance in different regions of the world. The main research questions addressed are: What does governance (as opposed to government, for instance) mean in different regions of the world? How does it relate to concepts like power, legitimacy, state, citizenship? Concepts of power are culturally informed, and the same is true for notions of citizenship, government, governance, and rule of law. Language also defines what can be ‘said’ and ‘thought of’. How is the notion of global governance shaped by and embedded in cultural perspectives? How is global governance understood in different regions of the world? What normative and political challenges does the concept of global governance and the emerging regimes of global governance institutions raise in different parts of the world? Is there something like a regional texture of global governance that builds upon regional cultural, social, historical, political, and/or institutional features and characteristics and that adapts the meaning of global governance to the spatial context in which it is adopted? We propose assessment at the regional level as a heuristic tool to examine the context of trends in global governance, in order to identify similarities and differences across continents without diluting the overarching conclusions by concentrating too closely on regional detail. The regional dimension is understood in a dynamic and critical perspective, and not as it has been traditionally used in ‘area studies’. We build on the notion of ‘regional worlds’ proposed by Acharya and their dynamic character.

BIOASSAY CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIVIDUAL URINARY GONADOTROPHIN EXTRACTS

1963 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-224
Author(s):  
Raymond C. Mellinger ◽  
Jalileh A. Mansour ◽  
Richmond W. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Reference Material ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Reference Standard ◽  
General Acceptance ◽  
Modifying Factors ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The World ◽  
Quantitative Bioassay ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
Age And Sex

ABSTRACT A reference standard is widely sought for use in the quantitative bioassay of pituitary gonadotrophin recovered from urine. The biologic similarity of pooled urinary extracts obtained from large numbers of subjects, utilizing groups of different age and sex, preparing and assaying the materials by varying techniques in different parts of the world, has lead to a general acceptance of such preparations as international gonadotrophin reference standards. In the present study, however, the extract of pooled urine from a small number of young women is shown to produce a significantly different bioassay response from that of the reference materials. Gonadotrophins of individual subjects likewise varied from the multiple subject standards in many instances. The cause of these differences is thought to be due to the modifying influence of non-hormonal substances extracted from urine with the gonadotrophin and not necessarily to variations in the gonadotrophins themselves. Such modifying factors might have similar effects in a comparative assay of pooled extracts contributed by many subjects, but produce significant variations when material from individual subjects is compared. It is concluded that the expression of potency of a gonadotrophic extract in terms of pooled reference material to which it is not essentially similar may diminish rather than enhance the validity of the assay.

Christianity in the Twentieth Century

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Regional Survey ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Different Parts

This book charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonization, and powerful ideological currents, many of them hostile to Christianity. The book traces how Christianity evolved from a religion defined by the culture and politics of Europe to the expanding polycentric and multicultural faith it is today—one whose growing popular support is strongest in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, China, and other parts of Asia. The book sheds critical light on themes of central importance for understanding the global contours of modern Christianity, illustrating each one with contrasting case studies, usually taken from different parts of the world. Unlike other books on world Christianity, this one is not a regional survey or chronological narrative, nor does it focus on theology or ecclesiastical institutions. The book provides a history of Christianity as a popular faith experienced and lived by its adherents, telling a compelling and multifaceted story of Christendom's fortunes in Europe, North America, and across the rest of the globe. It demonstrates how Christianity has had less to fear from the onslaughts of secularism than from the readiness of Christians themselves to accommodate their faith to ideologies that privilege racial identity or radical individualism.

THE 2019 NOVEL PANDEMIC OF CORONAVIRUS DISEASE (COVID-19): A STUDY OF EXISTING EVIDENCE IN THE INDIAN POPULATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-204
Author(s):  
Shrikant Verma ◽  
Mohammad Abbas ◽  
Sushma Verma ◽  
Syed Tasleem Raza ◽  
Farzana Mahdi
Keyword(s):  
Disease Transmission ◽  
Indian Population ◽  
Respiratory Infections ◽  
Clinical Signs ◽  
Case Fatality ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
The World ◽  
And Control ◽  
General Wellbeing ◽  
Different Parts

A novel spillover coronavirus (nCoV), with its epicenter in Wuhan, China's People's Republic, has emerged as an international public health emergency. This began as an outbreak in December 2019, and till November eighth, 2020, there have been 8.5 million affirmed instances of novel Covid disease2019 (COVID-19) in India, with 1,26,611 deaths, resulting in an overall case fatality rate of 1.48 percent. Coronavirus clinical signs are fundamentally the same as those of other respiratory infections. In different parts of the world, the quantity of research center affirmed cases and related passings are rising consistently. The COVID- 19 is an arising pandemic-responsible viral infection. Coronavirus has influenced huge parts of the total populace, which has prompted a global general wellbeing crisis, setting all health associations on high attentive. This review sums up the overall landmass, virology, pathogenesis, the study of disease transmission, clinical introduction, determination, treatment, and control of COVID-19 with the reference to India.

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