Living law
Subtitle: reconsidering Eugen Ehrlich
By: edited by Marc Hertogh.
Contributors: Ehrlich, Eugen, 1862-1922.; Hertogh, M. L. M., 1968-
Series: Oñati international series in law and society
Publisher: Hart Pub.; Hart Publishing
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781841138978; 9781841138985
Subjects: Ehrlich, Eugen, -- 1862-1922; Sociological jurisprudence
Description: "This collection of essays is the first edited volume in the English language which is entirely dedicated to the work of Eugen Ehrlich. Eugen Ehrlich (1862-1922) was an eminent Austrian legal theorist and professor of Roman law. He is considered by many as one of the 'founding fathers' of modern sociology of law. Although the importance of his work (including his concept of 'living law') is widely recognised, Ehrlich has not yet received the serious international attention he deserves. Therefore, this collection of essays is aimed at 'reconsidering' Eugen Ehrlich by bringing together an interdisciplinary group of leading international experts to discuss both the historical and theoretical context of his work and its relevance for contemporary law and society scholarship. This book has been divided into four parts. Part I of this volume paints a lively picture of the Bukowina, in southeastern Europe, where Ehrlich was born in 1862. Moreover it considers the political and academic atmosphere at the end of the nineteenth century. Part II discusses the main concepts and ideas of Ehrlich's sociology of law and considers the reception of Ehrlich's work in the German speaking world, in the United States and in Japan. Part III of this volume is concerned with the work of Ehrlich in relation to that of some his contemporaries, including Roscoe Pound, Hans Kelsen and Cornelis van Vollenhoven. Part IV focuses on the relevance of Ehrlich's work for current socio-legal studies. This volume provides both an introduction to the important and innovative scholarship of Eugen Ehrlich as well as a starting point for further reading and discussion."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From 'Men of Files' to 'Men of the Senses' : a brief characterisation of  Eugen Ehrlich's sociology of law  -- Marc Hertogh; title: Governing in the vernacular : Eugen Ehrlich and Late Habsburg ethnography  -- Monica Eppinger; title: Venus in Czernowitz : Sacher-Masoch, Ehrlich and the Fin-de-siècle crisis of legal reason  -- Assaf Likhovski; title: Ehrlich at the edge of empire : centres and peripheries in legal studies  -- Roger Cotterrell; title: Eugen Ehrlich's linking of sociology and jurisprudence and the reception of his work in Japan  -- Stefan Vogl; title: Facts and norms : the unfinished debate between Eugen Ehrlich and Hans Kelsen  -- Bart van Klink; title: Pounding on Ehrlich.  Again?  -- Salif Nimaga; title: The social life of living law in Indonesia  -- Franz and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann; title: Naturalism and agency in the living law  -- Jeremy Webber; title: World society, nation state and living law in the twenty-first century  -- Klaus A. Ziegert; title: Ehrlich's legacies : back to the future in the sociology of law? -- David Nelken.