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'''Roger Cotterrell''' is the Anniversary Professor of Legal Theory at [[Queen Mary, University of London]] <ref> http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/people/academic/cotterrell.html </ref> and was made a Fellow of the [[British Academy]] in 2005. <ref> http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/ordinary.cfm?letter=C </ref> Previously he was the Acting Head of the Department of Law (1989-90), Head of the Department of Law (1990-1), Professor of Legal Theory (1990-2005) and the Dean of the Faculty of Laws (1993-6) at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. He studied law at [[University College London]] as an undergraduate and postgraduate and began his teaching career at the [[University of Leicester]] as a lecturer in law in 1969. After returning to London in 1973, he studied sociology and politics at [[Birkbeck, University of London|Birkbeck College]] while teaching law full-time at Queen Mary College. Thereafter he was one of the small group of law and sociology academics in Britain who first specialised in the new field of sociology of law from the 1970s. His leading book on the subject |
'''Roger Cotterrell''' is the Anniversary Professor of Legal Theory at [[Queen Mary, University of London]] <ref> http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/people/academic/cotterrell.html </ref> and was made a Fellow of the [[British Academy]] in 2005. <ref> http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/ordinary.cfm?letter=C </ref> Previously he was the Acting Head of the Department of Law (1989-90), Head of the Department of Law (1990-1), Professor of Legal Theory (1990-2005) and the Dean of the Faculty of Laws (1993-6) at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. He studied law at [[University College London]] as an undergraduate and postgraduate and began his teaching career at the [[University of Leicester]] as a lecturer in law in 1969. After returning to London in 1973, he studied sociology and politics at [[Birkbeck, University of London|Birkbeck College]] while teaching law full-time at Queen Mary College. Thereafter he was one of the small group of law and sociology academics in Britain who first specialised in the new field of sociology of law from the 1970s. His leading book on the subject has been translated into several languages. |
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From 1996, influenced by [[Max Weber]]'s ideal types of social action, [[Emile Durkheim]]'s sociology of law and morality, and [[Georges Gurvitch]]'s radical legal pluralism, he began to develop a 'law-and-community' approach in legal theory. <ref> ''Law, Culture and Society'', ch. 4 </ref> This treats law's essential role as being to structure and facilitate social relations based on mutual interpersonal trust. The approach stresses law's significance not only for instrumental social relations but also for those shaped by shared environments and traditions, emotional commitments, and fundamental values or beliefs. It offers a theoretical basis for attacking current tendencies to view law in purely instrumental (especially economic) terms. <ref> ''Living Law'', ch. 2 </ref>, The approach has been applied in studying the impact of cultural diversity on law, <ref> ''Law, Culture and Society'', part 2 </ref> and in studies of law and development.<ref> A. Perry-Kessaris, ''Global Business, Local Law'', Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008 </ref>, but has been criticised in various ways for blurring lines between juristic inquiries and social science <ref> Roberts, 'Domesticating'; Nelken, 'Blinding Insights' </ref>. |
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He has also broadcast and published on jazz. He wrote profiles of musicians and reviewed music for many magazines from the late 1960s until the 1990s, and has edited and contributed to books on jazz. From 1975 to 1992 he wrote regularly for the Warsaw-based magazine ''Jazz Forum'',<ref> http://www.polishjazz.com/pjn/partners/jazzforum.htm </ref> published internationally in English, German and Polish editions. |
He has also broadcast and published on jazz. He wrote profiles of musicians and reviewed music for many magazines from the late 1960s until the 1990s, and has edited and contributed to books on jazz. From 1975 to 1992 he wrote regularly for the Warsaw-based magazine ''Jazz Forum'',<ref> http://www.polishjazz.com/pjn/partners/jazzforum.htm </ref> published internationally in English, German and Polish editions. |
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*Susan S. Silbey, Loyalty and Betrayal: Cotterrell’s Discovery and Reproduction of Legal Ideology (1991) 16 ''Law and Social Inquiry'' 809-33. |
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*Max Travers, Putting Sociology Back into the Sociology of Law (1993) 20 ''Journal of Law and Society'' 438-51. |
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*David Nelken, Blinding Insights? The Limits of a Reflexive Sociology of Law (1998) 25 ''Journal of Law and Society'' 407-26. |
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*Simon Roberts, Domesticating the Sociology of Law (2008) 71 ''Modern Law Review'' 132–44. |
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==Main publications== |
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Roger Cotterrell is the Anniversary Professor of Legal Theory at Queen Mary, University of London [1] and was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005. [2] Previously he was the Acting Head of the Department of Law (1989-90), Head of the Department of Law (1990-1), Professor of Legal Theory (1990-2005) and the Dean of the Faculty of Laws (1993-6) at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. He studied law at University College London as an undergraduate and postgraduate and began his teaching career at the University of Leicester as a lecturer in law in 1969. After returning to London in 1973, he studied sociology and politics at Birkbeck College while teaching law full-time at Queen Mary College. Thereafter he was one of the small group of law and sociology academics in Britain who first specialised in the new field of sociology of law from the 1970s. His leading book on the subject has been translated into several languages.
He has also broadcast and published on jazz. He wrote profiles of musicians and reviewed music for many magazines from the late 1960s until the 1990s, and has edited and contributed to books on jazz. From 1975 to 1992 he wrote regularly for the Warsaw-based magazine Jazz Forum,[3] published internationally in English, German and Polish editions.
References
Main publications
- Books
- The Sociology of Law: An Introduction. London: Butterworths / Oxford University Press (2nd edn, 1992)
- Law, Democracy and Social Justice. (jointly edited with Brian Bercusson) Oxford: Blackwell (1988)
- The Politics of Jurisprudence: A Critical Introduction to Legal Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2nd edn, 2003)
- Law and Society. (edited) Aldershot: Ashgate (1994)
- Law's Community: Legal Ideas in Sociological Perspective. Oxford: Clarendon Press (1995)
- Emile Durkheim: Law in a Moral Domain. Stanford: Stanford University Press / Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (1999)
- Sociological Perspectives on Law. (edited) Aldershot: Ashgate 2 vols (2001)
- Bass Lines - A Life in Jazz. (with Coleridge Goode) London: Northway (2002)
- Law in Social Theory. (edited) Aldershot: Ashgate (2006)
- Law, Culture and Society: Legal Ideas in the Mirror of Social Theory. Aldershot: Ashgate (2006)
- Living Law: Studies in Legal and Social Theory. Aldershot: Ashgate (2008)