Roger Cotterrell

Queen Mary University of London, School of Law

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1.

What Is Transnational Law?

Law & Social Inquiry, Vol. 37, No. 2, 2012, pp. 500-24., Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 103/2012
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 14 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2016
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Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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Transnational law, private law, economic regulation, legal theory, Hart, community, governance, standards, soft law, expertise, globalization

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Durkheim on Justice, Morals and Politics

Émile Durkheim: Justice, Morality and Politics, R. Cotterrell, ed., Ashgate Publishing, 2010, pp. xi-xxiv. , Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 57/2010
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 03 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2016
Roger Cotterrell
Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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Socio-Legal Studies, Law Schools, and Legal and Social Theory

Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 126/2012.
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 30 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2024
Roger Cotterrell
Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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legal education, socio-legal studies, legal philosophy, sociology of law, social theory

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Why Jurisprudence Is Not Legal Philosophy

Jurisprudence, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2014, pp. 41-55, Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 169/2014
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 25 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2016
Roger Cotterrell
Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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Jurisprudence; legal philosophy; contemporary legal positivism; universalism; legal naturalism; law in context; socio-legal perspectives; bricolage; jurists

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Law and Culture - Inside and Beyond the Nation State

Published in Retfærd: Nordisk Juridisk Tidsskrift, Vol. 31, No. 123, pp. 23-36, 2008; Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 4/2009.
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 20 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2018
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Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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Does Legal Pluralism Need a Concept of Law?

Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 19, No. 10, pp. 774-779, 2009, Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 46/2010
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 11 Feb 2010
Roger Cotterrell
Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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Legal pluralism, legal philosophy, legal theory, sociology of law, concept of law, law and state

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Comparative Sociology of Law

COMPARATIVE LAW AND SOCIETY, David S. Clark, ed., Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012, Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 96/2011
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 14 Dec 2011
Roger Cotterrell
Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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A Concept of Law for Global Legal Pluralism?

S. P. Donlan and L. H. Urscheler eds, Concepts of Law: Comparative, Jurisprudential and Social Science Perspectives. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014, pp. 193-208, Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 202/2015
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 27 May 2015
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Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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Concepts of law; global legal pluralism; rules of games and sports; Hart; Dworkin; transnational regulation; transnational law; jurisprudence

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Ehrlich at the Edge of Empire: Centres and Peripheries in Legal Studies

Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3/2009, 'Ehrlich at the Edge of Empire: Centres and Peripheries in Legal Studies', M. Hertogh, ed, Living Law: Reconsidering Eugen Ehrlich, Oxford: Hart, pp. 75-94, 2008
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 21 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2009
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Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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From Living Law to Global Legal Pluralism: Rethinking Traditions from a Century Of Western Socio-Legal Studies

Published in (2015) 49 Kobe University Law Review (International edition)., Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 229/2016
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 15 Apr 2016
Roger Cotterrell
Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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Sociology of law; global legal pluralism; Japan; Ehrlich; Weber; cultural pluralism; transnational law; Islamic law

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Community as a Legal Concept? Some Uses of a Law-and-Community Approach in Legal Theory

LIVING LAW: STUDIES IN LEGAL AND SOCIAL THEORY, pp. 17-28, Roger Cotterrell, ed., Farnham: Ashgate, 2008, Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 95/2011
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 14 Dec 2011
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Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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Ant's Eye-View of Law: Bruno Latour at the Conseil D'État

Published in Journal of Classical Sociology Vol. 11, 2011, pp. 506-10, Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 155/2013
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 26 Aug 2013
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Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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Actor-network theory, sociology of law, Conseil d'Etat, judicial practice, legal discourse, autonomy of law, systems theory

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The Struggle for Law: Some Dilemmas of Cultural Legality

International Journal of Law in Context, Vol. 4, 2009, Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10/2009, Second Annual International Journal of Law in Context Lecture, Georgetown University, Washington DC, January 2008
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 04 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2016
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Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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Spectres of Transnationalism: Changing Terrains of Sociology of Law

Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 32/2009, The Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 36, No. 4, December, 2009
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 23 Sep 2009
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Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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Globalization, transnational law, global legal pluralism, legal instrumentalism, convergence theory; sociology of law

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Debating Sociological Jurisprudence

Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 337/2020. Published in (2019) 32 Ratio Juris 521-8.
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 23 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2021
Roger Cotterrell
Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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Sociological jurisprudence, legal philosophy, Radbruch, Durkheim, jurists, legal scholarship, legal values, sociology of law

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Theory and Values in Socio-Legal Studies

Published in Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 44, pp. S19-S36, 2017. Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 281/2018.
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 15 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2018
Roger Cotterrell
Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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Weber, socio-legal studies, law and culture, ultimate values, communal networks, cultural pluralism, business regulation, cultural closure, Durkheim

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The Concept of Crime and Transnational Networks of Community

Published in P. Alldridge, L. Cheliotis and V. Mitsilegas eds, Globalisation, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice: Theoretical, Comparative and Transnational Perspectives. Oxford: Hart, 2014, Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 182/2014
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 30 Sep 2014
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Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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definition of crime; concept of crime; criminalisation; Durkheim; Weber; international criminal law; state crime; transnational networks; culture and crime.

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Harold Laski: A Comment on Rights in Theory and Practice

Queen Mary Law Research Paper No. 394/2022, Paper presented at a workshop on ‘Harold Laski and his Chinese Disciples’, University of Sheffield, July 2nd, 2020
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 01 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2022
Roger Cotterrell
Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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Rights, Harold Laski, social democracy, legal theory, social theory, political pluralism

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Golden Ages: Notes on the Future of Sociology of Law, with Some Comments on its Past, on Poland, and on Jazz

Published in Societas/Communitas: Journal of the Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Warsaw, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 9-23, 2011, Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 68/2010
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 27 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2018
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Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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Sociology of law, social theory, economic analysis, law and state

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Transnational Networks of Community and International Economic Law

SOCIO-LEGAL APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW: TEXT, CONTEXT, SUBTEXT, A. Perry-Kessaris, ed., London: Routledge, 2012, Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 125/2012
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 30 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2012
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Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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international economic law, transnational private law, networks of community, economic regulation, sociology of law

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Leon Petrazycki and Contemporary Socio-Legal Studies

Published in International Journal of Law in Context, Volume 11, No. 1 (2015), pp. 1-16, Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 201/2015
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 23 May 2015 Last Revised: 27 May 2015
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Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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Leon Petrażycki; socio-legal studies; law and morality; legal pluralism; cultural pluralism; Pitirim Sorokin; Georges Gurvitch; Nicholas Timasheff; transnational law; law and culture

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Law, Emotion and Affective Community

Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 282/2018
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 15 Jul 2018
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Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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community, affective relations, emotion, Weber, rationality, legal theory, sociology of law, vengeance, hatred, disgust, love

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The Life of Emile Durkheim

Published in (2014) 14(3) Journal of Classical Sociology 319-22, Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 183/2014
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 30 Sep 2014
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Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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A Socio-Legal Quest: From Jurisprudence to Sociology of Law and Back Again

Queen Mary Law Research Paper No. 408/2023, (2023) 50 Journal of Law and Society 3-16
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 04 Nov 2023
Roger Cotterrell
Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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Jurisprudence, sociology of law, legal philosophy, social theory, socio-legal studies

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Classical Social Theory and Ideas of Responsibility and the State in France and Germany

Published in Comparative Law Review (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland), vol. 15, 2013, Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 154/2013
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 27 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2018
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Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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Comte, Von Stein, Tönnies, Weber, Gierke, solidarism, Durkheim, Duguit, individualism, collective responsibility, solidarity, functions of law, modern state

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Conscientious Objection to Assigned Work Tasks: A Comment on Relations of Law and Culture

Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, Vol. 31, pp. 511-22, 2010, Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 104/2012
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 14 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2012
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Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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Culture, legal culture, comparative law, beliefs and values, religion, nationalism, dignity, conscientious objection, employment relations

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Northern Lights: From Swedish Realism to Sociology of Law

(2013) 40 Journal of Law and Society 657-669, Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 170/2014
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 25 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2016
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Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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Karl Olivecrona; Sweden; Scandinavian legal realism; law and morality; socio-legal studies; sociology of morals; Per Stjernquist; Torgny Segerstedt; Nazi Germany

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Jack Balkin’s Constitutional Faith

Public Law, pp. 443-9, 2013, Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 137/2013
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 07 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2016
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Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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United States Constitution; constitutional culture; constitutional interpretation; constitutional faith; political legitimacy; popular sovereignty, legal profession, public opinion.

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Law As Object of Attachment: From Durkheim to the Simpson Trials and Back Again

Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 328/2020, Presented at the Law and Society Association Meetings, St Louis, Missouri, May 30 1997, and at the Nordic Forum for the Sociology of Law, Landskrona, Sweden, June 9 1997.
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 07 Feb 2020
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Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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Durkheim, judicial process, moral individualism, O. J. Simpson, popular legal consciousness, sociology of law

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Access to Justice, Moral Distance and Changing Demands on Law

Queen Mary Law Research Paper No. 340. Published in (2019) 36 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 193-209.
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 06 Oct 2020
Roger Cotterrell
Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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Access to justice, solidarity, Durkheim, justice, regulatory distance, communication, cultural diversity, democracy

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Is Your Constitution Really Necessary?

Queen Mary Law Research Paper No. 393/2022, Paper presented at a workshop on Mac Amhlaigh’s ‘New Constitutional Horizons’ at the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context, Queen Mary University of London, February 23rd, 2022
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 01 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2022
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Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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Constitutionalism, constitutional values, Dworkin, Alf Ross, constitutional interpretation, political compromise

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A Jurisprudence for Crisis Times?

(2022) 67 The Irish Jurist 1-13., Queen Mary Law Research Paper No. 392/2022
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 01 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2024
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Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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Jurisprudence, crisis, sovereignty, locus standi, jurisdiction, rights of nature

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A Legal Sketch Map of Culture

in Reza Banakar, Karl Dahlstrand and Lotti Ryberg Welander eds, Festskrift till Håkan Hydén Lund: Juristförlaget i Lund, 2018, pp. 107-19. , Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 327/2020
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 07 Feb 2020
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Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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culture, community, Ehrlich, Segerstedt, business cultures, closed cultures, sociology of law

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Social Theory and Legal Theory: Contemporary Interactions

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 17, pp. 15-29, 2021
Posted: 27 Oct 2021
Roger Cotterrell
Queen Mary University of London, School of Law

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Emile Durkheim: Law in a Moral Domain

Stanford University Press, October 1999
Posted: 16 Aug 1999
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Queen Mary University of London, School of Law

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