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Luhmann and Socio-Legal Research: An Empirical Agenda for Social Systems Theory book cover

1st Edition

Luhmann and Socio-Legal Research An Empirical Agenda for Social Systems Theory

Edited By Celso Fernandes Campilongo, Lucas Fucci Amato, Marco Antonio Loschiavo Leme de Barros Copyright 2021
280 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book discusses the designs and applications of the social systems theory (built by Niklas Luhmann, 1927–1998) in relation to empirical socio-legal studies. This is a sociological and legal theory known for its highly complex and abstract conceptual apparatus. But how to change its scale in order to study more localised phenomena, and to deal with empirical data, such as case law, statutes,... Read more
  1. An Empirical Agenda for the Social Systems Theory?
    2.

    Lucas Fucci Amato, Marco Loschiavo Leme de Barros and Celso Fernandes Campilongo

    Part I: Theoretical bases for systemic empirical studies

  2. The Sociological Investigation of Law in Systems Theory

    3.

    Raffaele De Giorgi

  3. Is There a Need for a Critical Systems Theory?

    4.

    Lukas K. Sosoe

  4. Changing Maps: Empirical Legal Autopoiesis

    5.

    John Paterson and Gunther Teubner

    Part II: Analysing law through systemic approaches: the economic and regulatory interface

  5. Regulation without Interests? An Introduction to Luhmannian Empirical Mapping of System-Environment Relationships

    6.

    Bettina Lange

  6. Free Floating or Free Riding? Recursive Norm Building in the German Energy Transition Using the Example of the Approval of e-scooters in German Cities

    7. Cristina Besio and Margrit Seckelmann

  7. Law and Economy without ‘Law and Economics’? From New Institutional Economics to Social Systems Theory

    8.

    Lucas Fucci Amato

    Part III: Analysing law through systemic approaches: the political interface

  8. Observing Courts: An Organisational Sociology for Socio-Legal Research

    9.

    Marco Antonio Loschiavo Leme de Barros

  9. Casting off from the Rock of Uncertainty: Observations on the Empirical Application of Luhmann’s Sociological Theory and a Case Study on the Concept of Normative Expectations

    10.

    Mark Hanna

  10. Integration and Disintegration: Protest, Social Movements and Legal Interpretation

    11.

    Celso Fernandes Campilongo

  11. Politics, Law and Legitimacy: Reconstructing Brexit from a Systems Theory Perspective

    12.

    John Paterson

  12. A historical sociology of constitutions and democracy: an interview

Chris Thornhill


Biography

Celso Fernandes Campilongo is Full Professor and Vice-Dean at the University of São Paulo Law School, Brazil.

Lucas Fucci Amato is Professor at the Department of Legal Philosophy and Jurisprudence at the University of São Paulo Law School, Brazil.

Marco Antonio Loschiavo Leme de Barros is Professor at the Law School of Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil.

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