Seminar
Lines of Research towards a political sociology of law and justice

Jacques Commaille, Ecole normale supérieure, Institut des sciences sociales du politique, Cachan, France

November 25th, 2009, 17:00, CES Seminar Room

Within the State, Law and Administration Studies Research Group

 
Abstract

Presently in France one observes (although inserted in a framework of strong synergy with international research), the development of a research line where the judicial issue is approached parting from the know ledges of general sociology, political science, history and anthropology. This new positioning characterizes itself by restabilising the connection to the Great founding figures of sociology for which law was a privileged revealer of the transformations of societies and an important element for the construction of theories regarding those transformations. The development of a political sociology of law and justice falls within this context. We can define it as »a study of law solidly based on a general sociology that, in exchange it aims to develop».*
The aim of this seminar shall be to develop the definition of this political sociology of law and justice. Also, it aims to present some of the lines of research it generates, for instance: on the political uses of law and justice through national power, but also supranational (namely through supranational jurisdictions) but also in a framework of collective mobilizations that emerge from social movements.  

* Jacques Commaille and Patrice Duran, « Pour une sociologie politique du droit. Présentation », L’Année Sociologique, numéro consacré à la sociologie politique du droit, n° 1, 59/2009, p. 11-28.

 
Biographic note

Jacques Commaille is Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan and researcher at the Institut des Sciences Sociales du Politique, member of the  Groupe d’analyse des politiques publiques (GAPP/ENS) and director of the journal  Droit et Société. He has developed research works in the fields of political regulation, family and justice policies, having collaborated in the processes of legal reform be it in France or in the European context. Recently published works in the field of justice: Territoires de Justice. Une sociologie politique de la Carte Judiciaire, 2000; La fonction politique de la justice, 2007 (co-dir. com M. Kaluszynski). In print: Heurts et malheurs de la légalité dans les sociétés contemporaines. Une sociologie politique de la judiciarisation (in collaboration with L. Dumoulin).

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