40.1 - Law and Conventions

Special Issue: Law and Conventions from a Historical Perspective

• Rainer Diaz-Bone, Claude Didry & Robert Salais: Conventionalist’s Perspectives on the Political Economy of Law. An Introduction.
• Rainer Diaz-Bone: Institutionalist and Methodological Perspectives on Law – Contributions of the Economics of Convention.
• Claude Didry: The Institutional Foundations of “Labor Conventions” in France between the Wars.
• Christian Bessy: The Dynamics of Law and Conventions.
• Michela Barbot: When the History of Property Rights Encounters the Economics of Convention. Some Open Questions Starting from European History.
• Frédéric Marty: Towards an Economics of Convention-Based Approach of the European Competition Policy.
• Edward Lorenz: Work Organization Conventions and the Declining Competitiveness of the British Shipbuilding Industry, 1930-1970.
• Lisa Knoll: The Hidden Regulation of Carbon Markets.
• Noel Whiteside: Who were the Unemployed? Conventions, Classifications and Social Security Law in Britain (1911-1934).
• Simon Deakin: Juridical Ontology: The Evolution of Legal Form.
• Robert Salais: Europe, Laboratory for A-Democracy?

Focus: Spaces – Objects – Knowledge

• Pascal Schillings & Alexander van Wickeren: Towards a Material and Spatial History of Knowledge Production: An Introduction.
• Pascal Schillings: First at the South Pole. The Production of Geographical ‘Matters of Fact’ during the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1910-12.
• Daniel Brandau: Demarcations in the Void: Early Satellites and the Making of Outer Space.
• Esther Helena Arens: Flowerbeds and Hothouses: Botany, Gardens, and the Circulation of Knowledge in Things.
• Anna Maerker: Towards a Comparative History of Touch and Spaces of Display: the Body as Epistemic Object.
• Jakob Vogel: Stony Realms: Mineral Collections as Markers of Social, Cultural and Political Spaces in the 18th and Early 19th Century.

Mixed Issue

• Maja Suderland: Die Sozioanalyse literarischer Texte als Methode der qualitativen Sozialforschung oder: Welche Wirklichkeit enthält Fiktion?
• Hermann Wentker, Jörn Retterath, Sven Keller & Petra Weber: Mehrfachbesprechung Ulrich Herbert: Geschichte Deutschlands im 20. Jahrhundert, München. 2014.