Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Emerging Legal Uncertainty -- 1 Methodology -- 1.1 Socio-Legal Methodology -- 1.2 The S̀̀eparation Thesiś ́-- 1.3 Disembeddedness of Modern Law -- 1.4 The G̀̀aṕ ́Problem -- 2 Uncertainty and Irrationality -- 3 Late Modernity -- References -- Chapter 2: Conflict and Competition Between Law and Sociology -- 1 Law and Sociology -- 1.1 Jurisprudence, Legal Studies and Legal Practice -- 1.2 Law as a System of Rules -- 1.3 Rule-Based Reasoning -- 1.4 The Consequences of Globalisation -- 1.5 Doctrinal Methodology -- 2 The Sociological Imagination -- 3 Can Law and Sociology Learn from Each Other? -- References -- Chapter 3: Social Scientific Studies of Law -- 1 Approaches to the Study of Law in Society -- 1.1 The Sociology of Law -- 1.2 Law and Society Studies -- 1.3 Sociological Jurisprudence -- 1.4 Socio-Legal Studies and Legal Policy Research -- 2 Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches -- 3 The G̀̀aṕ ́Problem -- 3.1 Various Forms of the G̀̀aṕ ́-- 3.2 Alternatives to the G̀̀aṕ ́-- References -- Chapter 4: Whose Experience Is the Measure of Justice? -- 1 The Ethical Form of Judgement -- 2 Laẃs Claim to Correctness -- 3 The Separation Thesis -- 4 Reflections -- References -- Chapter 5: On the Paradox of Contextualisation -- 1 Galligańs Project -- 1.1 Developing Hart́s Concept of Law -- 1.2 From Rules to Rulings -- 1.3 The Social Context of Rules -- 1.4 Why Do We Need Legal Rules? -- 2 Taking the Law Seriously -- 2.1 Two Points of Disagreement -- 2.2 Are Legal Rules the Focal Point of Legal Experience? -- 2.3 The Plurality of Experiences -- 3 Having Onés Cake and Eating It -- References -- Chapter 6: A Note on Franz Kafkás Concept of Law -- 1 Heimat -- 2 Chewing Sawdust -- 3 The Castle -- 4 Subversion -- 5 Paradoxes -- 6 The Desire for Justice -- 7 Kafkás Law -- References.

Chapter 7: The Politics of Legal Cultures -- 1 Three Case Studies on Law, Culture, Gender and Religion -- 1.1 The Bolshevikś Modernisation -- 1.2 The Sandviken Case -- 1.3 Incorporating Aspects of Sharia into UK Law -- 2 Monolithic and Plural Conceptions of Legal Cultures -- 3 Living Law and Cultural Diversity -- 3.1 Ehrlichś L̀iving Laẃ -- 3.2 Kelseńs Critique of Ehrlich -- 4 Steppenwolf -- References -- Cases -- Newspaper Items -- Chapter 8: Comparative Law and Legal Cultures -- 1 Studying Similarities or Differences? -- 2 Contextualisation -- 2.1 Contextualising Laws -- 2.2 Rethinking Comparative Law -- 2.3 The Politics of Difference -- 2.4 Not Everything Is Culturally Determined -- 3 Towards a Meta-Methodological Framework -- 3.1 Culture -- 3.2 Limits of the Top-Down Approach -- 3.3 Combining the Top-Down and Bottom-Up Perspectives -- References -- Chapter 9: A Case-Study of Non-Western Legal Systems and Cultures -- 1 Prologue: One Word -- 2 Reckless Driving and Legal Culture -- 3 Iranianś Perceptions of Driving -- 3.1 Interviews in Shiraz -- 3.2 Preliminary Reflections -- 3.3 Interviews in Tehran -- 3.4 Driving Habits and Legal Culture -- 4 Iranian State, Law and Society from a Historical Perspective -- 4.1 State and Society in Iran -- 4.2 Iranian Individualism -- 5 Epilogue: Towards a Culture of Qānon -- References -- Chapter 10: The Shift to Risk Management -- 1 Three Cases of Anti-Terrorism -- 1.1 The Terrorist from Alva -- 1.2 The Lyrical Terrorist -- 1.3 The Youngest British-Born Terrorist -- 1.4 The Urge to Transgress Boundaries -- 1.5 The Anti-Terrorism Legislation -- 1.6 Symbolic Effects of Anti-Terrorism Legislation -- 1.7 Stop and Search Powers -- 1.8 The Culture of Control -- 1.9 The Human Rights Act -- 2 Islamophobia -- 2.1 A Growing Culture of Hostility -- 2.2 Alarming Rhetoric -- 3 Constructing an Ènigmá -- 4 Managerialism.

References -- Cases and Related Material on Sentencing Etc. -- Official Reports -- News Items -- Chapter 11: Norms and Normativity in Socio-Legal Research -- 1 Normativity -- 1.1 Internal and External Aspects of Norms -- 1.2 Normativity Beyond Social Norms? -- 1.3 What Is Unique About the Law? -- 2 Justice as Laẃs Primary Source of Normativity -- 2.1 Defining Justice -- 2.2 Justice as Laẃs Contingency Formula -- 2.3 The Inter-Connectedness of Law and Justice -- 2.4 Risk Management Strategýs Normativity -- 3 Dealing with the Normativity of Justice -- 3.1 Facts and Values in Social and Legal Research -- 3.2 Scientific Methodology -- 3.3 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 12: The Changing Horizons of Law and Regulation: From an Industrial to a Post-Industrial, Digital Society -- 1 Law and Social Engineering in Industrial Society -- 1.1 Classical Socio-Legal Theory -- 1.2 The Rise and Fall of the Welfare State -- 1.3 From Social Integration to Market Integration -- 2 Ideology, Law and Technology -- 2.1 From Telegraphy to Digital Communication -- 2.2 Reducing the Social World to a Binary Baseline -- 2.3 Social Media and Reflexivity -- 2.4 The Neo-Liberal Ideology -- 3 Law and Regulation in a Global Society -- 3.1 New Public Spaces and Forms of Community -- References -- Chapter 13: Law and Regulation in Late Modernity -- 1 Regulating Global Corporations? -- 2 Reflexivity -- 2.1 When Controlling Risks Generates More Risks -- 2.2 How Could They Act in Such an Unrestrained Fashion? -- 2.3 From Community to Transitory Social Networks -- 3 The Transformation of the State -- 3.1 A Shift to Risk Management -- 4 Late Modern Law -- 4.1 When Law Loses a Clear Concept of the Social -- 4.2 Using Law to Generate Uncertainty -- 4.3 The Possibility of Social Change -- References -- Reports -- Newspaper Items -- Index.

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