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• Sociology of Law and the Economy

  • Start
    23 Sep 2019
  • End
    4 Oct 2019
  • Location
    Oñati IISL

  The interplay between legal and economic phenomena is one of the central themes in the sociology of law and represents a growing interdisciplinary field of research. This course aims to provide students with a sound understanding of key insights, approaches and debates around a sociological analysis of the role of law in economic regulation. It will discuss how law – its agents, practices institutions, legal ideas and concepts – shapes the economy, and conversely, how socio-economic transformations – especially the recent period of economic globalization and neoliberalism and their aftermath – impact on the legal order. This debate will be located within the broader traditions of economic sociology and sociology of law (Veblen, Simmel, Weber, Marx, Polanyi, among others), as well as more recent sociologists, especially Bourdieu. The course will also offer the students the analytical and methodological tools to go beyond this established tradition.

  The interface between law, economy and society will be addressed both theoretically and empirically. The course will start with two sessions, introducing classic socio-legal perspectives about law and the economy, as well as contemporary debates. These are followed by three sessions covering the key legal institutions which are the foundation of economic activity: property rights, the contract, and the corporation. The second week of the course will build on this foundation by studying exemplary research in four key areas: financial regulation, competition law, tax, and international trade. They will be examined through a variety of theoretical and methodological frameworks. In the final session, students are invited to discuss the relation between capitalism and democracy, and the role of the law.

  The course is designed as an interactive seminar, whereby the teachers introduce the basic materials and the participants actively contribute to the discussions, and make prepared presentations themselves. By the end of the course the students will acquire both substantive insights into the themes explored and a set of conceptual and methodological tools to assess and undertake studies in the subject. 

   http://www.iisj.net/en/master-oficial/programa-20192020/cursos/sociology-of-law-and-the-economy

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• Social Research: Design and Methods

  • Start
    7 Oct 2019
  • End
    16 Oct 2019
  • Location
    Oñati IISL

  This course aims to deepen students’ understanding of core methodological issues in the sociology of law/socio-legal studies. Its primary approach is practical – the focus is on what makes ‘good’ research, on the skills, techniques and intellectual content of influential social research. Inevitably we are led into the issue of what ‘good’ research means, although this issue is not the primary focus of the topic.

  We will deal with a series of core issues in empirical social research: research questions, research design, sampling, making data, analysing data and discussing data/results/findings. There are several core components:

  1. thinking about the research (literature review)

  2. designing the research (methodology)

  3. identifying appropriate/feasible methods

  4. doing the research (data collection); and

  5. analysing results (writing up).

  In each case, we first consider general issues and methodological approaches. We then take a number of pieces of sociological research and examine how each dealt with the issues, and ask about alternatives. We may also do some in-class exercises on some subjects. In the last part of the topic, students apply the earlier material covered by defending or critiquing a monograph length research report. Another set of issues relates to ethics and also funding; empirical research is often resource intensive. Students successfully completing the course should be able to: • Critically evaluate research that relies on quantitative and qualitative methods • Formulate research questions that can be examined empirically • Design a program of research • Design a survey • Prepare and undertake research relying on interviews • Access officially collected statistics and secondary data sources; and • Be aware of the benefits and limitations of different research methods and strategies. 

   http://www.iisj.net/en/master-oficial/programa-20192020/cursos/social-research-design-and-methods

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• Teoría Crítica e injusticia social. Derechos humanos en tiempos de democracias débiles y neocapitalismos

  • Start
    2 Apr 2020
  • End
    3 Apr 2020

  Coordinators: María José Fariñas Dulce (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Carlos Lema Añón (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Silvina Ribotta (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid).

  
  

  
  

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• Justicia transicional, procesos locales y nuevas subjetividades

  • Start
    23 Apr 2020
  • End
    24 Apr 2020

  Coordinators: 

  David Enrique Valencia Mesa (Universidad de Antioquia)

  Marina Montoto Ugarte (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
  

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