Rechtssoziologie und juristische Ausbildung in der Bundesrepublik / The Sociology of Law and Legal Education in the Federal Republic of Germany
AbstractThis contribution gives, in its first part, a survey of the sociology of law as it has recently become firmly installed, as an academic discipline, in the federal Länders’ legal curricula. As the corresponding syllabusses mostly provide for the composition of papers in sociology of law as part of the written examination, a draft model of such a topic (on a subject in ‘Comparative Sociology of Law’) is included. The second part reviews the different approaches of research in sociology of law in the Federal Republic as evidenced in the most recent publications in the field. The areas given priority by present research policy here include, besides a most strictly empirically based sociology of law, inquiries on the societal level and endeavours to integrate the sociological and psychological perspectives.