This essay introduces a Law & Social Inquiry symposium on Kitty Calavita's book Invitation to Law & Society: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law (2010) that features comments on the law and ...society enterprise by Jeannine Bell, Austin Sarat, and Christopher Tomlins. It briefly discusses the commentators' views of this enterprise as revealed in their essays and challenges points made by each of them. It goes on to discuss the book's suitability as a student-oriented introduction to the field of law and society, filling a gap the commentators left open.
Intended as a short survey text, Kitty Calavita's Invitation to Law & Society expertly summarizes many of the central themes of law and society scholarship as they have developed over the past fifty ...years. It also clearly identifies the field's object of attention: "real" law. I use this commentary on the book as an opportunity to assess the field as it enters its sixth decade. How has the field changed? What are its defining characteristics? What is "real" law? Does law and society research have a future?
Kitty Calavita's Invitation to Law & Society: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law (2010) offers a broad and useful overview of the intellectual accomplishments of law and society scholars and a ...self-confident assertion that they perform an invaluable service by focusing on "real law," that is, law in action rather than law on the books. This essay argues that the field is more fragmented than Calavita notes and that law and society research is neither engaged with a common set of questions nor organized around a single central insight or an agreed-upon paradigm. Moreover, this essay raises questions about Calavita's claims about "real" law and suggests that we complement law and society's traditional focus by examining the varied performances of law, whether in texts or in the world beyond those texts.
One of the sharpest critiques of law and society scholarship in recent years has come from scholars who maintain that law and society scholarship fails to address the issue of race appropriately. ...This essay considers several critiques of law and society scholars' engagement with issues of race and uses them to evaluate Kitty Calavita's exploration of race in Invitation to Law & Society: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law (2010). The essay advocates the use of "race as process" as a mode of analysis that will allow for greater explanatory power to law and society scholarship when it touches on racial issues.
Cet article traite du conflit de loyauté dans une double approche, celle de la réalité manifeste objectivable à travers les conduites, les discours, et celle, latente, à travers les enjeux psychiques ...implicites aux comportements et aux discours. Il met en évidence que le conflit de loyauté est inhérent à la vie tout comme le conflit psychique dont Freud fait une notion centrale dans la théorie des névroses. L’articulation de la clinique et du judiciaire dans leur dimension symbolique permet de traiter les conflits de loyauté et les conflits psychiques. Le propos est illustré par des cas cliniques.
In this essay, I address some of the concerns raised by contributors to the Symposium on Invitation to Law & Society: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law. I argue that law and society ...scholarship focusing on race increasingly offers some of our field's best empirical analyses of the interpenetration of law and society; I emphasize the importance of the methodological and theoretical diversity that characterizes our fragmented field, arguing that our pluralism is one of our greatest strengths; I clarify my intended meaning of the term "real law" as I use it in the book's subtitle, as a way to underscore the socially constituted quality of all law; I attempt to rescue the reputation of dialectics from charges of "relativism"; and I reiterate my appreciation for our field's engagement with questions of social justice that has characterized it since its inception. In the second half of the essay, I briefly describe my current prison research and offer some thoughts for the future of our field.
The fiduciary transfer of property is a controversial institute of real law, dating back to Roman law, which has been revived and reshaped by modern practice. The institute, as a kind of conditional, ...content-limited property, has had its significant place in the Law on Property and Other Real Rights in Croatia for 25 years, as an atypical real guarantee that is functionally most similar to the right of lien. The subject of the paper is a comparative and axiological anal- ysis of this institute in positive Croatian law and its status in Serbian law, whose positive regu- lations do not regulate this institute, but whose introduction is proposed by one of the two le- gal drafts. Considering the situation in Serbian judicial practice, which has been vacillating for a long time regarding the issue of the permissibility of this institute, and in doctrine - which generally recognizes it, the author’s position is that this institute should be standardized in Serbian law de lege ferenda, for legal certainty, whereby the Croatian regulation represents a potential model. Hence, it is important to critically assess certain segments of this solution, starting with the question of origin, expediency, content, effect and legal nature. The final goal of the paper is to evaluate the adequacy of the compared solutions, as well as formulate proposals for regulating fiduciary property de lege ferenda, as part of the planned reform of the Serbian civil law, as well as of the harmonization of national solutions at regional level.
El autor revisa la común opinión según la cual el intendente D. Juan Francisco Gutiérrez de Piñeres en 1779 dio marcha atrás en la reforma universitaria ilustrada del fiscal D. Francisco Antonio ...Moreno y Escandón en 1774 en el Nuevo Reino de Granada (Colombia). Eso es cierto en relación con el plan de estudios de filosofía y teología. No así en relación con el plan de estudios de jurisprudencia. En efecto, los dos ilustrados, el neogranadino y el castellano, no sólo mantuvieron el plan de estudios de jurisprudencia de 1774, sino que, además, cediendo sutilmente en aquellos planes de filosofía y teología para «volver al método de antes», es decir, el escolástico -en franca decadencia-, añadieron la asignatura de Derecho público, natural y de gentes, adoptando como manual la obra de J. G. Heinnecio (1681 -1741), «Elementa iuris naturae et gentium» (1738); autor incardinado en la corriente europea del derecho natural racionalista y, por tanto, pieza fundamental en las ideas liberales. En las pocas universidades de la monarquía española que la habían introducido fue abolida por real orden de 31 de julio de 1794 y ejecutada en el Nuevo Reino de Granada al año siguiente. Así pues, durante quince años aproximadamente los juristas peninsulares y neogranadinos se formaron en los ideales políticos de la Ilustración. Por tanto, demasiado tarde para desactivar, tanto en la Península como en el Nuevo Reino de Granada, esa «carga de efecto retardado». De ellos, 28 neogranadinos cayeron fusilados en la guerra de independencia de Colombia. Perdió así el naciente estado-nación su dirigencia jurídico política de primera línea. Circunstancia absolutamente determinante en sentido negativo para el posterior desarrollo político de la sociedad colombiana.
This chapter draws on ethnography of people and archives to show how the descendants of past European migrants to Argentina go about getting an ancestral nationality and what this process implies for ...the value of citizenship. It contends that, when the evaluative point of reference is the state jurisdiction that defines it, citizenship has become less valuable. Citizenship increases in worth when the benchmark is the value added in status or opportunities by a second, European nationality. Considering current perspectives on the value of citizenship, this chapter shows that a “real law” perspective on how nationality works on the ground reveals why analysts can describe citizenship as both gaining and losing value.
U radu se razmatraju izvanugovorna i ugovorna odgovornost za štete prouzročene zloupotrebom zrakoplova. Daje se pregled pravila Rimske konvencije i Montrealskog protokola koji uređuju odgovornost za ...štetu koju prouzroči strani zrakoplov trećim osobama na zemlji te glavne naznake nastojanja modernizacije tih pravila. Uspoređuju se ta rješenja na međunarodnoj razini s onima sadržanim u nacionalnim zakonodavstvima, domaćem i poredbenopravnom. Posebna je pažnja posvećena načinu na koji su Sjedinjene Američke Države riješile pitanje naknade štete žrtvama terorističkog napada 11. rujna 2001. Ugovornu odgovornost za štete prouzročene zloupotrebom zrakoplova u međunarodnom zračnom prijevozu uređuje Montrealska konvencija iz 1999. godine, čije se odredbe uspoređuju s odredbama nacionalnog zakona. Zaključuje se da se kod zloupotreba zrakoplova poput one izvršene 11. rujna težište s problema same odgovornosti, tj. pronalaska onoga tko je, osim samih počinitelja, za tu štetu odgovoran, nužno prebacuje na pitanje kako žrtvama osigurati brzo i pravično obeštećenje, barem za štete zbog smrti i tjelesnih ozljeda.
