Reza Banakar (1959 – 27 August 2020) was an Iranian-born Professor of Legal Sociology at

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, London.
He was born in

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and moved to England in the 1970s, where he went to school and studied mathematics.

Biography

He studied law, sociology and philosophy at

Lund University , motto = Ad utrumque , mottoeng = Prepared for both , established = , type = Public research university , budget = SEK 9 billion sociology of law The sociology of law (legal sociology, or law and society) is often described as a sub-discipline of sociology or an interdisciplinary approach within legal studies. Some see sociology of law as belonging "necessarily" to the field of sociology, ...

and taught various socio-legal subjects between 1988 and 1997. In 1997, he moved to the University of Oxford to take up the Paul Dodyk Research Fellowship at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (then based at Wolfson College). Between 2002 and 2013, he worked at the School of Law at the

University of Westminster The University of Westminster is a public university, public university based in London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1838 as the Royal Polytechnic Institution, it was the first Polytechnic (United Kingdom), polytechnic to open in London. The Polyte ...

. His research is within the areas of law and social theory, socio-legal methodology, legal cultures, ethnic discrimination, law and literature, and rights. Among his publications are ''Merging Law and Sociology: Beyond the Dichotomies in Socio-Legal Research ''(Berlin/Wisconsin, Galda & Wilch, 2003) ''and Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research,'' co-edited with Max Travers (Oxford, Hart, 2005). An edited collection entitled ''Rights in Context: Law and Justice in Late Modern Society,'' was published by Ashgate in 2010. In February 2013, he assumed the Chair in Legal Sociology at Lund University, Sweden. Reza Banakar died after a long illness on 27 August 2020.

Main publications

*2016 ''Driving Culture in Iran: Law and Society on the Roads of the Islamic Republic''. London: I.B.Tauri

*2015 ''Normativity in Legal Sociology: Methodological Reflections on Law and Regulation in Late Modernity''. Springer Internationa

*2013 ''Law and Social Theory'' (co-edited with Max Travers). Hart Publishing, Oxfor

*2010 ''Rights in Context: Law and Justice in Late Modern Society'' (edited collection ). Aldershot, Ashgate, August 2010

*2005 ''Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research''. Co-editor Max Travers. Hart Publishing: Oxford

*2003 ''Merging Law and Sociology: Beyond the Dichotomies of Socio-Legal Research''. Galda and Wilch Publishing: Berlin/Wisconsin. and

*2002 ''An Introduction to Law and Social Theory''. Co-editor Max Travers. Hart Publishing: Oxford

*1998 ''Doorkeepers of the Law: A Socio-Legal Study of Ethnic Discrimination in Sweden''. Aldershot: Dartmouth/Ashgate. https://www.ashgate.com/ . . *1994 ''The Dilemma of Law - Conflict Management in a Multicultural Society''. (Swedish title: Rättens Dilemma: Om konflikthantering i ett mångkulturellt samhälle) Bokbox Publishing: Lund/Sweden. Publisher’s home page: https://web.archive.org/web/20110505173925/http://www.infografen.com/bokbox/alphalist.html .

Recent papers

* 2019, “Brexit: A Note on EU’s Interlegality.” In Bettina Lemann Kristiansen et al (eds.) Transnationalisation and Legal Actors: Legitimacy in Question. London: Routledge. * 2018, “Law, Love and Responsibility: A Note on Solidarity in EU Law” in Festskrift till Håkan Hydén, Lund: Juristförlaget, 69-83. * 2018, "The Life of the Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran" (Coauthor Ziaee Keyvan) in 51 (5) Iranian Studies. Open access a

* 2018, "Double-Thinking and Contradictory Arrangements in Iranian Law and Society" in Digest of Middle East Studies

*2014, “Law, Community and the 2011 London Riots” (Co-authored with Alexandra Lort Phillips) in D. Schiff and R. Nobel (eds) Law, Society and Community: Socio-Legal Essays in Honour of Roger Cotterrell. Farnham, Ashgate. *2013, “Law and Regulation in Late Modernity” in R. Banakar and M. Travers (eds) Law and Social Theory (Oxford: Hart). *2013, “Who Needs the Classics? On the Relevance of Classical Legal Sociology for the Study of Current Social and Legal Problems”. In Hammerslev, Ole and Madsen, Mikael Rask (eds.) Retssociologi (Copenhagen: Hans Reitzels Forlag). *2010, “In Search of Heimat: A Note on Franz Kafka’s Concept of Law” forthcoming in Law and Literature 2010

*2009, “Power, Culture and Method in Comparative Law” in 5/1 International Journal of Law in Context pp. 69–85

*2008, “Poetic Injustice: A Case Study of the UK’s Anti-Terrorism Legislation” in 3/122 Retfærd: The Nordic Journal of Law and Justice. pp. 69–90

*2008, “The Politics of Legal Cultures” in 53 Scandinavian Studies in Law 2008, pp. 151–175. A shorter Version of this paper is published in 4/122 Retfærd: The Nordic Journal of Law and Justice)

*2008, “Whose Experience is the Measure of Justice” in 11 Legal Ethics pp. 209–22

*2008, "Law Through Sociology’s Looking Glass: Conflict and Competition in Sociological Studies of Law in Denis, Ann and Kalekin-Fishman, Devorah (eds.) The New ISA Handbook in Contemporary International Sociology: Conflict, Competition, Cooperation, London, Sage

electronic copies of his recent published research papers are available (and maybe downloaded) at
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References

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1000663
http://www4.lu.se/raettssociologi/kontakt {{DEFAULTSORT:Banakar, Reza Academics of the University of Westminster Iranian expatriate academics Living people 1959 births Iranian expatriates in the United Kingdom Iranian emigrants to Sweden Academic staff of Lund University