PART I INTRODUCTION AND BIOGRAPHY 1. Introduction Hakan Hyden (Lund University, Sweden) 2. Bringing the Social and the Legal Together: An Overview of Reza Banakars Sociology of Law Mariana Motta Vivian (University of the Basque Country, Spain) 3. Engaging with Reza Banakar Max Travers (University of Tasmania, Australia) PART II SOCIOLOGY OF LAW THEORY, LEGAL PLURALISM AND LEGAL THEORY 4. The Place of a Stepchild: Notes on the Establishment of Modern Sociology of Law Roger Cotterrell (Queen Mary University of London, UK) 5. The Stepchild Controversy: Unfortunate Dichotomies in Socio-Legal Theory Peter Bergwall (Lund University, Sweden) 6. Normativity as the Source of Norms Hakan Hyden (Lund University, Sweden) 7. On the Relationship between Normative Pluralism and Justice after Multiculturalism Martin Ramstedt (Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Spain) 8. Legal Pluralism and the Army: Legal Sociology as Military Sociology Chris Thornhill (University of Manchester, UK) 9. Corporate Strategies within a Transnational Regulatory Field Isabel Schoultz (Lund University, Sweden) 10. Corporate Governance, Soft Law, and Corporate Social Responsibility: Some Legal Theoretical Contributions Mauro Zamboni (Stockholm University, Sweden) 11. Reflections on Law, Religion, and Technology: Legal Mobilisation in the Area of Egyptian Paternity Law Monika Lindbekk (University of Bergen, Norway) PART III SOCIOLOGY OF LAW METHODS AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY 12. Knowledge and Opinion about Law The Importance of Law-related Education Ulrike Schultz (FernUniversitat, Germany) 13. Rights Consciousness in Hungary. What is Behind the Numbers? Lessons of a Focus Group Study Balazs Fekete (Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary) 14. In Conversation with Reza: Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research Linda Mulcahy (Oxford University, UK) 15. The Light in the Tunnel Can Be a Train: About Kafkaesque Double Thoughts Karl Dahlstrand (Lund University, Sweden and Mikael Furugarde, Lund University, Sweden) 16. Socio-Legal Agency in Late Modernity Reappreciating the Relationship between Normativity and Sociology of Law Pierre Guibentif (Iscte University Institute, Portugal) 17. The Quest for Scientific Methods: Sociology of Law, Jurimetrics and Legal Informatics Peter Wahlgren (Stockholm University, Sweden) 18. Minding the Gap Problem: The Relevance of Combining Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches to the Study of Laws Role in Everyday Life Stine Piilgaard Porner Nielsen (University of Southern Denmark) 19. Doing Fieldwork in Istanbul Courts: Challenges and Strategies Seda Kalem (Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey) PART IV COMPARATIVE LEGAL CULTURES 20. Legal Culture as an Approach to the Study of Law in Russian Society Marina Kurkchiyan (University of Oxford, UK) 21. Flexible Structures: Using the Legal Culture Concept to Study the Law of Society Carlo Pennisi (University of Catania, Italy) 22. Lawyers and Drivers: On Reading Two Works of Reza Banakar Lawrence M Friedman (Stanford University, USA) 23. Traffic Justice: Law and Society on the Roads of Iran and the Netherlands Marc Hertogh (University of Groningen, the Netherlands) 24. The Cancer of the Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Reflections on the Iranian Anti-Israel Law of 2020 Mathieu Deflem (University of South Carolina) 25. Revolutions and Legal Cultures. Perspectives and Reflections Hanne Petersen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) PART V SOCIOLOGY OF LAW AS SCIENCE 26. Reza Banakar and the Quest for a Sociology of Law Ole Hammerslev (University of Southern Denmark) and Mikael Rask Madsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 27. Governing through Covid Indicators David Nelken (Kings College, London, UK) 28. Safe but not Secure? Risk Management, Communication and Preparedness for a Pandemic in Aviation John Woodlock (Lund University, Sweden) 29. The Interlegal Evocation of Peace in Colombia Nicolas Serrano Cardona (Lund University, Sweden) PART VI APPLIED SOCIOLOGY OF LAW 30. Trade Union Solidarity and the Issue of Minimum Wage Regulation in the EU Ann-Christine Hartzen (Lund University, Sweden) 31. Constitutional Imaginaries: A Socio-legal Perspective of Political and Societal Constitutions Jiri Priban (Cardiff University, UK) 32. Public Sentiments on Justice, Legal Consciousness, and the Study of Marginalised Groups Peter Scharf Smith (University of Oslo, Norway) 33. Challenging Legal Orthodoxy: New Orientations in Space and Time in Discourses Over Land Tenure Anne Griffiths (Edinburgh University, UK) 34. Sexual Violence, Standard(s) of Proof, and Arbitrariness in Judicial Decision-Making Hildur Fjola Antonsdottir (University of Iceland)