Making socio-legal Research More Social by Design: Anglo-German Roots, Rewards, and Risks. Issue 7 (October 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Perry-Kessaris, Amanda
• Is Part Of: German law journal. Volume 21:Issue 7(2021)
• Page Start: 1427
• Page End: 1445
• Publication Date: 2020-10
• Subjects: Legal design, -- socio-legal research methods, -- Anglo-German scholarship; Law -- Germany -- Periodicals; Law -- Europe -- Periodicals; Comparative law -- Periodicals; International law -- Periodicals; jurisprudence; 349.4
• DOI: 10.1017/glj.2020.77
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2071-8322

Abstract

Abstract: This Article looks for signs of Anglo-German life in the literature and practice under-pinning the current move to use "designerly ways" in socio-legal research; and asks whether design has a role to play in nurturing a sense of Anglo-German socio-legal community. It argues that a "sociological imagination" is essential if we are to fully understand possible synergies between design and socio-legal research, and the risks and rewards of activating them; and that while we cannot know what socio-legal research will or ought to look like in the coming months and years we must pay more attention to designing those moments that we are lucky enough to share in person.