Reza Banakar

Reza Banakar is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the Department of Advanced Legal Studies at the University of Westminster, London.^[1] He studied law, sociology and philosophy at Lund University, where he also obtained his doctorate in the sociology of law and taught various socio-legal subjects between 1988 and 1997. In 1997, he moved to the University of Oxford to take up the Paul Dodyk Research Fellowship at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (then based at Wolfson College). Since 2002, he has been at the School of Law at the University of Westminster. His research is within the areas of law and social theory, socio-legal methodology, legal cultures, ethnic discrimination, law and literature, and rights.^[2] Among his publications are Merging Law and Sociology: Beyond the Dichotomies in Socio-Legal Research (Berlin/Wisconsin, Galda & Wilch, 2003) and Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research, co-edited with Max Travers (Oxford, Hart, 2005). His latest book, an edited collection entitled Rights in Context: Law and Justice in Late Modern Society, is to be published by Ashgate in August 2010.^[3]

Main Publications

• 2010 Rights in Context: Law and Justice in Late Modern Society (edited collection ). Aldershot, Ashgate, August 2010. [1]
• 2005 Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research. Co-editor Max Travers. Hart Publishing: Oxford. [2].
• 2003 Merging Law and Sociology: Beyond the Dichotomies of Socio-Legal Research. Galda and Wilch Publishing: Berlin/Wisconsin.ISBN 1-931255-13-X and ISBN 3-931397-47-5. [3]
• 2002 An Introduction to Law and Social Theory. Co-editor Max Travers. Hart Publishing: Oxford.

http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841132099.

• 1998 Doorkeepers of the Law: A Socio-Legal Study of Ethnic Discrimination in Sweden. Aldershot: Dartmouth/Ashgate. https://www.ashgate.com/ . ISBN 1-84014-485-8.
• 1994 The Dilemma of Law - Conflict Management in a Multicultural Society. (Swedish title: Rättens Dilemma: Om konflikthantering i ett mångkulturellt samhälle) Bokbox Publishing: Lund/Sweden. Publisher’s home page: http://www.infografen.com/bokbox/alphalist.html . ISBN 91-86980-15-7

Recent papers

• 2010 “In Search of Heimat: A Note on Franz Kafka’s Concept of Law” forthcoming in Law and Literature 2010. [4]
• 2009 “Power, Culture and Method in Comparative Law” in 5/1 International Journal of Law in Context pp. 69-85. [5]
• 2008 ““Poetic Injustice: A Case Study of the UK’s Anti-Terrorism Legislation” in 3/122 Retfærd: The Nordic Journal of Law and Justice. pp. 69-90. [6]
• 2008 “The Politics of Legal Cultures” in 53 Scandinavian Studies in Law 2008, pp. 151-175. A shorter Version of this paper is published in 4/122 Retfærd: The Nordic Journal of Law and Justice). [7]
• 2008 “Whose Experience is the Measure of Justice” in 11 Legal Ethics pp. 209-222.[8]
• 2008 “Law Through Sociology’s Looking Glass: Conflict and Competition in Sociological Studies of Law in Denis, Ann and Kalekin-Fishman, Devorah (eds.) The New ISA Handbook in Contemporary International Sociology: Conflict, Competition, Cooperation, London, Sage. [9]

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