Jurisprudence and Socio-Legal Studies Intersecting Fields

'This is a marvelous collection: the essays show Roger Cotterrell at his best: incisive but also open-minded, offering valuable lessons to both established scholars and beginning law students.'

Professor Brian Bix,

Frederick W. Thomas Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Minnesota, USA

`Jurisprudence and Socio-Legal Studies: Intersecting Fields is a new masterpiece. ...In summary, Cotterrell's new book not only shows the real challenge to building bridges between jurisprudence and socio-legal studies but also the pathway to collaboration between the two fields. It provides a fundamental rethinking of the past, the present, and the future of the intersection of jurisprudence and socio-legal studies and will leave an important legacy. It is a book that must be read by scholars and students who are interested in jurisprudence, socio-legal studies, sociology of law, and comparative law.'

Ting Xu, University of Essex, UK

Social & Legal Studies; DOI: 10.1177/09646639241296107 journals.sagepub.com/home/sls

'Cotterrell structures his account in three parts: 'A Terrain of Socio-Legal Inquiry', 'Juristic Radicals as Socio-Legal Pioneers', and 'Mapping Intersecting Fields'. It is an unapologetically wide-ranging account, weaving together a panoply of topics and themes, some familiar and others a welcome surprise. Nevertheless, the chapters are characteristically concise and clear - a feature that ensures that Cotterrell's intricate theses remain accessible to a broad audience of advanced students and academics from numerous disciplines, including sociology of law, socio-legal studies, jurisprudence, and sociology.'

James Campbell, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford; book review in Journal of Law and Society https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12503