Introduction: Studying European Ways of Law Volkmar Gessner, David Nelken A - Theorising ‘European’ Legal Culture 1. Images of Europe in Sociolegal Traditions Roger Cotterrell 2. American and European Ways of Law: Six Entrenched Differences Robert A Kagan 3. La place paradoxale de la culture juridique Americaine dans la mondialisation Antoine Garapon 4. Globalisation and the Rise of Procedural Informalism in Europe and America Wolf Heydebrand 5. American and European Forms of Social Theory reflecting Social Practice Richard Münch B - Re-constructing Europe 6. ‘Cold War Law’: Legal Entrepreneurs and the Emergence of a European Legal Field (1945–1965) Antonin Cohen and Mikael Rask Madsen 7. The Transformation of Sub-State Nationalism in Conflicted Societies: the Impact of European Constitutionalism Victoria Jennett 8. Is There the Spirit of the European Laws? Critical Remarks on the EU Constitution-making, Enlargement and Political Culture Jirí Pribán 9. How to Conceptualise Law in European Union Integration Processes? Perspectives from the Literature and Empirical Research Bettina Lange C - European Styles of Legal Regulation 10. EU Ways of Governing the Marketing of Pharmaceuticals—a Shift towards more Integration, Better Consumer Protection and Better Regulation? Bärbel Dorbeck-Jung and Mirjan Oude Vrielink-van Heffen 11. Embedded and Disembedded Rationality: Contributions to Global Governance from European and US American Legal Cultures Gerd Winter 12. Dutch Legal Culture and Technological Transitions—the Impact of Dutch Government Interventions Helen Stout and Martin de Jong 13. Early Intervention and the Cultures of Youth Justice: A Comparison of Italy and Wales Stewart Field and David Nelken

...the first of its kind in trying to assess if there is a distinctive European way of dealing with law and society, and their answer is definitely in the affirmative...a very courageous attempt to tackle many issues and will definitely generate further debate and new research. For this reason only, the volume should be of great interest to the many sociologists of law in Europe, and to the many more interested in this discipline. At the same time its value extends far beyond these two groups, as this volume should be of equal importance to sociologists of law in other parts of the world interested in learning about the European approach in its various dimensions. Stephan Parmentier Law & Society Review Vol. 42, No. 4. (December 2008) A very comprehensive source of nuanced information and ideas on the sociology of European law. Tba European Library No. 9604/766 The contributions to this collection provide food for thought. This collection and its individual chapters will no doubt be cited by those seeking to get to grips with European ways of law, its problems, its potential and likely future direction for years to come. Mark Flear European Law Review Volume 35, 2010

Original research and theory on the relations between law, legal institutions and social processes. The volumes in this series are eclectic in their disciplines, methodologies and theoretical perspectives, but they all share a strong comparative emphasis. The volumes originate in workshops hosted by the Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law. Founding Series Editors: William L F Felstiner Eve Darian-Smith Editorial Board: Carlos Lugo, Hostos Law School, Puerto Rico Jacek Kurczewski, Warsaw University, Poland Marie-Claire Foblets, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany Ulrike Schultz, Fern Universität, Germany