Institutional Constructivism in Social Sciences and Law

Institutional Constructivism in Social Sciences and Law
Author: Dora Kostakopoulou
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2018-10-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 110866962X

This book proposes a new institutional constructivist model, for social scientific and legal enquiries, based on the interrelations within the social and political world and the application of change in EU laws and politics. Much of the research conducted in social sciences and law examines the diverse activities of individuals and collectivities and the role of institutions in the social and political world. Although there exist many vantage points from which one can gain entry into understanding how agents in the world act, interact, shape and bear the world, socio-legal scientific epistemology has found monism and dualism to be convincing models. This book argues that current models do not capture the complexity of our micro-worlds, macro-worlds and meso-worlds. Nor can they account for the forms and patterns of socio-legal change. Mind, time and change are brought together in an attempt to contribute to socio-legal epistemology and to enhance its toolkit.

Institutional Constructivism in Social Sciences and Law

Institutional Constructivism in Social Sciences and Law
Author: Theodora Kostakopoulou
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018
Genre: Constructivism (Philosophy)
ISBN: 9781108456166

The book develops the model of institutional constructivism to aid socio-legal research and to account for patterns of socio-legal change.

Institutional Constructivism in Social Sciences and Law

Institutional Constructivism in Social Sciences and Law
Author: Dora Kostakopoulou
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2018-10-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108470548

The book develops the model of institutional constructivism to aid socio-legal research and to account for patterns of socio-legal change.

Research Handbook on General Principles in EU Law

Research Handbook on General Principles in EU Law
Author: Ziegler, Katja S.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 656
Release: 2022-04-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1784712388

This Research Handbook offers a comprehensive study of existing and emerging general principles of EU law by scholars from a wide range of expertise in EU law, international law, legal theory and different areas of substantive law. It explores the theory, content, role and function of general principles in EU law to better understand general principles as a mechanism for the substantive openness of the EU legal order as well as for cross-fertilization and coherence of legal orders. Their potential as a tool to manage the interaction of legal regimes and orders is a particular focal point and will make this Handbook a must-read for scholars of EU Law.

Legal Theory and the Social Sciences

Legal Theory and the Social Sciences
Author: MaksymilianDel Mar
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 901
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1351560468

Ever since H.L.A. Hart's self-description of The Concept of Law as an 'exercise in descriptive sociology', contemporary legal theorists have been debating the relationship between legal theory and sociology, and between legal theory and social science more generally. There have been some who have insisted on a clear divide between legal theory and the social sciences, citing fundamental methodological differences. Others have attempted to bridge gaps, revealing common challenges and similar objects of inquiry. Collecting the work of authors such as Martin Krygier, David Nelken, Brian Tamanaha, Lewis Kornhauser, Gunther Teubner and Nicola Lacey, this volume - the second in a three volume series - provides an overview of the major developments in the last thirty years. The volume is divided into three sections, each discussing an aspect of the relationship of legal theory and the social sciences: 1) methodological disputes and collaboration; 2) common problems, especially as they concern different modes of explanation of social behaviour; and 3) common objects, including, most prominently, the study of language in its social context and normative pluralism.

On Brexit

On Brexit
Author: Tawhida Ahmed
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-12-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1789903017

Timely and engaging, this topical book examines how Brexit is intertwined with the concepts of justice and injustice. Legal scholars across a range of subjects and disciplines utilise a multitude of case studies from consumer law, asylum law, legal theory, public law and private law, in order to explore the impact of Brexit on our ideas of justice. The book as a whole aims to engage with the methodology, lexicon and explicitness of analytical perspectives in relation to Brexit.

The European Integration Process: Crisis and Resilience in the Aftermath of the Covid-19 Pandemic

The European Integration Process: Crisis and Resilience in the Aftermath of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Author: António Portugal Duarte
Publisher: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press
Total Pages: 441
Release:
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9892623649

The process of European integration is considered the most innovative example of regionalism in the world. The Covid-19 pandemic crisis, which the world experienced since the beginning of 2020, caused a brutal negative shock on the economies. It raised new doubts and challenges about the European integration project, making the prospect of the EU’s dissolution something possible, even if undesirable. The book analyses these events, counting with the contribution of 41 authors, from universities and research centers of several European countries, and also from other continents. Its objective is to gather four perspectives to the European integration in a post-pandemic context: I) that of the countries of the Eurozone;II) that of the Eurozone candidate countries; III) the East “look” of EU candidate countries, and IV) the view of the rest of the world. The book is divided into four parts, each corresponding to one of these inputs, for a total of 24 chapters.

Research Handbook on European Union Citizenship Law and Policy

Research Handbook on European Union Citizenship Law and Policy
Author: Kostakopoulou, Dora
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2022-03-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1788972902

This Research Handbook provides a panoramic guide to the study and research of EU citizenship and its development within a challenging environment characterised by restrictive access to social benefits, Brexit, Euroscepticism and Covid-19. It combines theoretical perspectives with analyses of both the existing and future rights, duties and social protection that EU citizens ought to enjoy in a democratic and principled European Union.

Institutional Inequality and the Mobilization of the Family and Medical Leave Act

Institutional Inequality and the Mobilization of the Family and Medical Leave Act
Author: Catherine R. Albiston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2010-07-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1139491466

How do Family and Medical Leave Act rights operate in practice in the courts and in the workplace? This empirical study examines how institutions and social practices transform the meaning of these rights to recreate inequality. Workplace rules and norms built around the family wage ideal, the assumption that disability and work are mutually exclusive, and management's historical control over time all constrain opportunities for social change. Yet workers can also mobilize rights as a cultural discourse to change the social meaning of family and medical leave. Drawing on theoretical frameworks from social constructivism and new institutionalism, this study explains how institutions transform rights to recreate systems of power and inequality but at the same time also provide opportunities for law to change social structure. It provides a fresh look at the perennial debate about law and social change by examining how institutions shape the process of rights mobilization.

Pragmatism in International Relations

Pragmatism in International Relations
Author: Harry Bauer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2009-01-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134076487

This collection of essays introduces pragmatism to the study of international relations and evaluates its potential for the theory and practice of global politics. Seeking to reorient the discipline of International Relations (IR) towards practices and problematic situations, the editors of this volume draw on the pragmatist tradition to provide critical inspiration for this task. Their book, organised into four distinct parts, aims to outline the potential of pragmatism to reconstruct IR. Through such an approach this volume seeks to re-invigorate the discipline and bridge the gap between IR academic communities in the US, UK, and continental Europe. This pioneering volume provides: the first book-length evaluation of the potential pragmatism holds for the practice as well as the epistemological, theoretical and normative debates within the discipline of IR theoretical reflections and empirical studies in the area of diplomacy, international law, public (environmental) policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict highly original contributions by prominent scholars in the field of IR, International Law, Sociology and Social Theory Drawing on research from several disciplines, Pragmatism in International Relations will be vital reading for students and scholars of International Relations, International Relations Theory, and Social Theory.