Banakar, Reza

 

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Professor of Socio-Legal Studies

Advanced Legal Studies

r.banakar@wmin.ac.uk

 Room 105 Riding House Street

+44 0207 911 5000 Ext 2502

+44 (0)20 7911 5821

Responsibilities

  • Module Leader LLM Research Theory and Method
  • Module Leader LLM Comparative Law
  • PhD Admissions

 

Teaching & Research Interests

  • Research Methodology
  • Comparative Law
  • Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law
  • Sociology of Law
  • Law and Social Theory
  • Legal Cultures
  • ADR
  • Ethnic Discrimination
  • Public Ombudsmen
  • Regulation
  • Anti-Terrorism Legislation

 

Biography

Professor Reza Banakar studied law, sociology and philosophy in the 1980s and obtained a doctorate in the sociology of law from Lund University in Sweden in 1994, where he taught between 1989 and 1997. In 1997, he moved to the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford to take up the Paul Dodyk Research Fellowship at Wolfson College. During this time he was also Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College. Since 2002, has been at the School of Law at the University of Westminster. He currently holds the Chair in Socio-Legal Studies, teaches comparative law and research methods within the Law School’s LLM programme, and supervises a number of PhD students.

Professor Banakar has also taught at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Onati, Spain, and the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen where he has been a visiting Professor. For further details of Professor Banakar, please visit: http://westminster.academia.edu/RezaBanakar/About

 

Select/ Recent Publications

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Recent Papers and Book Chapters

 

Other Publications

  • Case Assignment in English Courts, co-authored with J. Flood, J. Webb and A. Whyte. Published in The Right Judge for Each Case, eds. Philip M. Langbroek et al. Antwerp/Oxford: Intersentia. 2007.
  • Integrating Reciprocal Perspectives: On Georges Gurvitchs Theory of Immediate Jural Experience reprint in Roger Cotterrell, ed., Law in Social Theory. Aldershot, Ashgate. 2006.
  • Law, Race and Ethnicity in Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives. Thousand Oaks: SAGE. 2006.
  • Sociological Jurisprudence in Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives. Thousand Oaks: SAGE. 2006.
  • Georges Gurvitch in Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives. Thousand Oaks: SAGE. 2006.
  • Can Sociology and Jurisprudence Learn from Each Other?: A Reply to Mauro Zamboni in 113/29 Retfᴂrd: Nordic Journal of Law and Society, 2006.
  • Legal Document as Empirical Data in Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research. Edited by Banakar and Travers. Oxford, Hart Publishing. 2005.  An e-copy is available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1328257
  • Law, Sociology and Method in Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research. Edited by Banakar and Travers. Oxford, Hart Publishing. 2005.
  • When Do Rights Matter? in Human Rights Brought Home. Edited by Simon Halliday and Patrick Schmitt. Oxford: Hart Publishing. 2004. An e-copy is available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1328345
  • Sociological Jurisprudence in An Introduction to Law and Social Theory. Oxford: Hart Publishing. 2002.
  • Law and Sociology in An Introduction to Law and Social Theory. Co-authored with Max Travers. Oxford, Hart Publishing. 2002.
  • Integrating Reciprocal Perspectives: On Georges Gurvitchs Theory of Immediate Jural Experience 16 /1 Canadian Journal of Law and Society. 2001. An e-copy is available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1777167
  • A Passage to India: Toward a Transformative Interdisciplinary Discourse on Law and Society in 92 Retfærd (The Nordic Journal of Law and Justice) 2001. pp. 3-21.
  • Reflections on the Methodological Issues of the Sociology of Law, in 27 Journal of Law and Society. 2002, pp. 273-95. An e-copy is available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1777211
  • Reflexive Legitimacy in International Commercial Arbitration in Emerging Legal Certainty - Empirical Studies on the Globalization of Law. Edited by Volkmar Gessner and A. Cem Budak, Aldershot: Dartmouth/Ashgate. 1998.
  • The Identity Crisis of a Stepchild: Reflections on the Paradigmatic Deficiencies of Sociology of Law in 81 Retfærd (The Nordic Journal of Law and Justice). 1998.
  • Conflict Resolution by Discourse: An Examination of the Effectiveness of the Swedish Act against Ethnic Discrimination (Swedish title: Samtal som konfliktlsning: En granskning av den svenska lagen mot etnisk diskriminering) in Social forskning, (the Journal of the Swedish Council for Social Research: SFR), No. 4. 1997.
  • The Negative Consequences of Positive Discrimination (Swedish title: Kvotering skapar inga jobb) in Invandrare och Minoriteter (The Scandinavian Migration and Ethnic Minority Review), 1995, No. 4. 1995.
  • The Development of Law in the Global Village (Swedish title: Rättens utveckling i den globala byn) in Vol. 71 Retfærd (The Nordic Journal of Law and Justice). 1995.
  • Public Discourse on Ethno-Cultural Issues (Swedish title: Det offentliga samtalet om ethnokulturella frågor) in Häften för kritiska studier (Swedish Critical Studies Review), No 1-2, 1993.
  • Black or White in the Eyes of the Law (Swedish title: Svart eller vit i lagens ögon) in Retfærd: The Nordic Journal of Law and Justice, No. 1, 1993.
  • Legal Discourse on Ethno-Cultural Issues (Swedish title: Rättslig diskurs i etnokulturella fårgor) in Retfærd: The Nordic Journal of Law and Justice, No. 2, 1992.
  • Salman Rushdie and the Holy Cow of Liberalism. (Swedish title: Salman Rushdie och liberalismens heliga ko) in Häften för kritiska studier, (Swedish Critical Studies Review), No 2, 1992.
  • Law, Mass Media and Public Debate (Swedish title: Debatt på Låtsas) in Invandrare och Minoriteter (The Scandinavian Migration and Ethnic Minority Review), No. 6 1991.
  • Law, a Political Instrument (Swedish title: Lagen, politikens verktyg) in Invandrare och Minoriteter (The Scandinavian Migration and Ethnic Minority Review), No. 5&6. 1990.
  • The Dilemma of Law. An Examination of Controversial Judicial Decisions in Ethno Culturally Based Legal Disputes in Tidskrift för Rättssociologi (The Swedish Sociology of Law Review), Vol. 6, No. 3/4, 1989.

 

Book Reviews

  • Review of D. J. Galligans Law in Modern Society, in 118/3 Retfærd: The Scandinavian Journal of Law and Justice. 2007.
  • A Life of H.L.A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream, by Nicola Lacey (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004) in 113/2 Retfærd: Nordic Journal of Law and Justice 2006.
  • The Policy of Law: A Legal Theoretical Framework (Stockholm University Press) by Mauro Zamboni, forthcoming in 111/4 Retfærd: Nordic Journal of Law and Justice 2005.
  • Race, Law Resistance, by Patricia Tuitt (London, GlassHouse Press, 2004) in 32/4 Journal of Law and Society. 2005.
  • Contrasting Criminal Justice: Getting from here to there. Edited by David Nelken. Ashgate/Dartmouth 2000. 306 pages. 28 the Journal of Law and Society. 2001.
  • Organised Cooperation Facing Law: An Anthropological Study, by PER STJERNQUIST, Scripta Minora Regiae Societatis Humaniorum Litterarum Lundensis 1999-2000:1. Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell International in 93 Retfærd: Nordic Journal of Law and Justice 2001.
  • Realistic Socio-Legal Theory: Pragmatism and a Social Theory of Law. By Brian Z. Tamanaha. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997 in 7 Social and Legal Studies. 1999.
  • Muslim Women in Scandinavia (Swedish title: Muslimska kvinnor i Norden), Birgitta Ornbradt, ed., DEIFO, Stockholm 1989. In Invandrare och Minoriteter, No.3. 1991.

For further details of Professor Banakar’s publications, please visit:
http://westminster.academia.edu/RezaBanakar/About