STEVEN LUKES: Norms as Social Facts (The Durkheimian Legacy)

Conference: “The Sacred and the Law. The Durkheimian Legacy” International Conference at the Kate Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” | Bonn | 27.-28. October 2015 STEVEN LUKES (New York City, NY) Norms as Social Facts SESSION 1: THE NORMATIVE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SOCIAL (Chair: Werner Gephart) The Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” organizes a conference on the legal sociology of Émile Durkheim entitled “The Sacred and the Law. The Durkheimian Legacy” on October 27/28, 2015. With Roger Cotterrell, Jean-Louis Fabiani, Laura R. Ford, Jean-Louis Halpérin, Steven Lukes, Stephen P. Turner and others. Steven Lukes (New York): Sociologist, Professor of Sociology at New York University, editor (with Andrew Scull) of Durkheim and the Law (1983, new revised and expanded edition 2013) and author of Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work. A Historical and Critical Study (1975, republished 1985), founding member of the Groupe d’Etudes Durkheimiennes Werner Gephart (Bonn): Legal scholar, sociologist and artist, Professor of Sociology at the University of Bonn, founding director of the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture”, editor of the volume “Recht” of the Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe (MWG I/22-3) and of the series “Law as Culture” For further Information please note the conference program (PDF): http://www.recht-als-kultur.de/en/act... ______________________________________________________ www.law-as-culture.com - www.recht-als-kultur.de