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Author Madsen, Mikael Rask

Title Law and the Formation of Modern Europe : Perspectives from the Historical Sociology of Law
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (382 pages)
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Contributors; Preface; 1Introduction: Law and the formation of modern Europe -- perspectives from the historical sociology of law; 1.1 Law and European society; 1.2 Towards a historical sociology of European law; 1.3 The historical sociology of law as a framework for understanding Europe; 1.3.1 Sociology of constitutional law and state formation; 1.3.2 Sociology of European integration; 1.3.3 Sociology of transnational processes in law and society; 1.4 Outline of the book
1.4.1 Part I -- Legal institutions and European state formation1.4.2 Part II -- Law and Europe ́s ideological transformations; 1.4.3 Part III -- Law and the supranational reinvention of Europe; Bibliography; Part I Legal institutions and European state formation; 2 Fascism and European state formation: the crisis of constituent power; 2.1 Constitutions, rights and state autonomy; 2.2 World War I and the material constituent power; 2.3 The crisis of state autonomy: patterns of reaction to the military constitution; 2.3.1 Britain and France; 2.3.2 Germany in the Weimar Republic
2.3.3 Spain under Primo de Rivera, Portugal and Austria2.3.4 Italy; 2.3.5 Germany and the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP); 2.4 Conclusion; Bibliography; 3 The beginnings of constitutional justice in Europe; 3.1 Introduction1; 3.2 The American paradigm; 3.3 The Austrian Constitutional Court and Hans Kelsen; 3.4 'The Guardian of the Constitution'; 3.5 Developments after 1945; Bibliography; 4 Judicialization: A sociohistorical perspective (lessons and questions from the French Fifth Republic); 4.1 A judicial revolution?
4.2 'Judicialization' as a grid for sociohistorical analysis4.3 A starting point: the instauration of the Fifth Republic in France and the 'Crisis of Law'; 4.4 Historical conditions of possibility: the aggorniamentoof the legal professions; 4.5 Conditions of coalescence: 'judicialization' as social configuration; Bibliography; 5 Towards a sociology of intermediary institutions: the role of law in corporatism, neo-corporatism and governance; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 A methodological and theoretical recalibration; 5.3 The common function of corporatism, neo-corporatism and governance
5.4 Beyond the state/society dichotomy5.5 Structural transformations; 5.6 The organisational infrastructure: organisations, networks and social roles; 5.7 The transformation of law; 5.8 Conclusion; Bibliography; Part II Law and Europe's ideological transformations; 6 Private, public and collective: the twentieth century in Italy from fascism to democracy; 6.1 Looking for a new order; 6.2 The doctrine of totalitarianism; 6.3 Social and individual law; 6.4 The end of fascist corporatism; 6.5 Democratic life and 'new corporatism'; 6.6 Conclusion; Bibliography
Summary Presents a series of distinct sociological inquiries into the formation of contemporary European law and society
Notes 7 Nazism and its legal aftermath: coming to terms with the past after World War II
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Law -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Law -- Social aspects -- Europe
LAW -- Legal History.
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Law
Law -- Social aspects
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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