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Law's Knowledge and Law's Effectiveness: Reflections from Legal Sociology and Legal Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Peer Zumbansen

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With considerable regularity, the established and functioning scientific apparatus is able to reshape itself, to confirm or change its course and the respective lenses of observation through the rationalization of themes, trends and through the identification of individuals and groups of scholars who are being associated with these developments. This exercise, leaving its traces in conferences, edited volumes and the formation of scientific associations, is largely centred around the formulation, assessment and defence of scholarly projects and tasks. The importance of such undertakings lies, however, in their ability to never let the forces of institutionalization, formalization and bureaucratization take the upper hand over the continuing diversity and curiosity that reigns beneath their surface. The awarding of academic honours and prizes themselves are part of the institutionalization of scholarly projects, but they come with the calming realization that, despite all the festivity, it is clear to everyone that there is no one who deserves the prize. There is in fact no prize recipient. What remains is the constantly nagging doubt whether curiosity and critical inquiry still govern our search, whether ears and eyes continue to be open.

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Legal Theory and Legal Sociology
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German Law Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 4: The Law of the Network Society. A Tribute to Karl-Heinz Ladeur , 01 April 2009 , pp. 417 - 438
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† The paper is based on the author's recipient lecture for the 2008 Law & Society Prize of the German-language Legal Sociology Association, awarded by the Christa-Hoffmann-Riem-Foundation on 5 September 2008 at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. The Laudatio lecture was presented by Marc Amstutz (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland). The Laudatio and a shorter version of this paper are printed – in German – in 28 Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie, 279–280 and 281–294 respectively. This Lecture is dedicated to Karl-Heinz Ladeur to his 65th birthday. The author is grateful to Sujith Xavier for helpful comments.

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