Les professionnels du droit comme acteurs politiques. Bilan critique de la littérature nord-américaine et enjeux de l’importation de ces travaux en Europe continentale
Cause lawyering; Engagement; Etats-Unis; Europe; Judicial Politics; Law & Society; Political lawyering; Professionnels du droit; Réalisme; Sociologie du droit; Political Activism; Lawyer; Realism; Sociology of law; United States
Abstract :
[fr] Depuis longtemps, les sciences sociales nord-américaines s’interrogent sur la dimension politique de l’activité des professionnels du droit alors qu’en Europe continentale, les rapports entre droit et politique n’ont été analysés conjointement que très récemment et de façon marginale. L’un des enjeux actuels des travaux nord-américains est de transposer les conclusions éprouvées aux Etats-Unis dans d’autres contextes juridiques et politiques, ce qui questionne l’universalisation et la globalisation de ces analyses. Après avoir exposé les raisons qui expliquent l’intérêt ancien des sciences sociales face à la question du politique aux Etats-Unis, cet article propose de réfléchir aux conditions et enjeux de l’importation de ces travaux en Europe continentale, en portant une attention particulière aux rapports historiques – et spécifiques à chaque contexte national – entre droit, pouvoir politique et sciences sociales.
Disciplines :
Sociology & social sciences
Author, co-author :
Lejeune, Aude ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Institut des sciences humaines et sociales > Sociologie de l'organisation et de l'intervention
Language :
French
Title :
Les professionnels du droit comme acteurs politiques. Bilan critique de la littérature nord-américaine et enjeux de l’importation de ces travaux en Europe continentale
Alternative titles :
[en] Lawyers as Political Actors: Critical Review of North-American Sociolegal Studies and Considerations Regarding an Importation into Continental Europe
For many years, North-American social sciences have been analyzing legal professionals as political actors, while in Continental Europe the relationship among law, politics, and society has remained under-examined. At the moment, a central project for US sociolegal studies is exporting to other political and legal contexts hypotheses previously tested inside US borders, raising the question of the generalizability and/or the globalization of US socio-legal analyses. After briefly describing why social sciences have been focusing on law and social changes in the United States, this article aims to determine what prerequisites are necessary for exporting sociolegal studies outside the US, devoting particular attention to historically contingent – and nationally-distinct - relations between law, political power, and the social sciences.
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