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Title Living law : reconsidering Eugen Ehrlich / edited by Marc Hertogh
Published Oxford : Hart, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 280 pages)
Series Oñati international series in law and society
Oñati international series in law and society.
Contents From 'Men of Files' to 'Men of the Senses' : a brief characterisation of Eugen Ehrlich's sociology of law / Marc Hertogh -- Governing in the vernacular : Eugen Ehrlich and Late Habsburg ethnography / Monica Eppinger -- Venus in Czernowitz : Sacher-Masoch, Ehrlich and the Fin-de-siècle crisis of legal reason / Assaf Likhovski -- Ehrlich at the edge of empire : centres and peripheries in legal studies / Roger Cotterrell -- Eugen Ehrlich's linking of sociology and jurisprudence and the reception of his work in Japan / Stefan Vogl -- Facts and norms : the unfinished debate between Eugen Ehrlich and Hans Kelsen / Bart van Klink -- Pounding on Ehrlich. Again? / Salif Nimaga -- The social life of living law in Indonesia / Franz and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann -- Naturalism and agency in the living law / Jeremy Webber -- World society, nation state and living law in the twenty-first century / Klaus A. Ziegert -- Ehrlich's legacies : back to the future in the sociology of law? / David Nelken
Summary This collection of essays is the first edited volume in the English language which is entirely dedicated to the work of Eugen Ehrlich. Eugen Ehrlich (1862-1922) was an eminent Austrian legal theorist and professor of Roman law. He is considered by many as one of the 'founding fathers' of modern sociology of law. Although the importance of his work (including his concept of 'living law') is widely recognised, Ehrlich has not yet received the serious international attention he deserves. Therefore, this collection of essays is aimed at 'reconsidering' Eugen Ehrlich by bringing together an interdisciplinary group of leading international experts to discuss both the historical and theoretical context of his work and its relevance for contemporary law and society scholarship. This book has been divided into four parts. Part I of this volume paints a lively picture of the Bukowina, in southeastern Europe, where Ehrlich was born in 1862. Moreover it considers the political and academic atmosphere at the end of the nineteenth century. Part II discusses the main concepts and ideas of Ehrlich's sociology of law and considers the reception of Ehrlich's work in the German speaking world, in the United States and in Japan. Part III of this volume is concerned with the work of Ehrlich in relation to that of some his contemporaries, including Roscoe Pound, Hans Kelsen and Cornelis van Vollenhoven. Part IV focuses on the relevance of Ehrlich's work for current socio-legal studies. This volume provides both an introduction to the important and innovative scholarship of Eugen Ehrlich as well as a starting point for further reading and discussion
Notes "A series published for The Oñati Institute for the Sociology of Law."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Ehrlich, Eugen, 1862-1922.
Ehrlich, Eugen, 1862-1922
Ehrlich, Eugen.
SUBJECT Kongress (2006 : Oñate, Spanien) swd
Subject Sociological jurisprudence.
LAW -- Jurisprudence.
LAW -- General Practice.
LAW -- Reference.
LAW -- Essays.
LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism.
LAW -- Practical Guides.
Sociological jurisprudence
Rechtssoziologie
Recht
Rechtssociologie.
Genre/Form Herdenkingsbundels (vorm)
Form Electronic book
Author Hertogh, M. L. M., 1968-
Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law.
ISBN 9781847314772
1847314775
128211901X
9781282119017
9781472564603
147256460X