Combining the legal and the social in sociology of law : : An Homage to Reza Banakar / / Håkan Hydén [and three others], editors.

• Superior document: On~ati international series in law and society
• TeilnehmendeR: Hyde´n, Ha°kan,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK),, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: On~ati international series in law and society.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 476 pages) :; illustrations.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1509959408; 1509959416
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Håkan Hydén [and three others], editors.

In the title of Reza Banakar's first internationally published book The Doorkeepers of the Law: A Socio-Legal Study of Ethnic Discrimination in Sweden (1998) his interest in Franz Kafka is already obvious. Much later, Banakar (2010) presented his view of Kafka's conception of law in his article In Search of Heimat: A Note on Franz Kafka's Concept of Law, and more recently, Banakar (2015) developed his reading of Kafka's both existential and legal significance in the chapter A Note on Franz Kafka's Concept of Law. In his readings of Kafka, it is striking how Banakar emphasizes the uncertainty and unpredictability of human conduct; Kafka's "writings highlight the role of uncertainty, insecurity, transience and the unknowable" (Banakar, 2015) in contrast to contemporaneous rationalistic modern theories (of the law). In particular, Banakar highlighted the fact that Kafka, both a practicing lawyer and a fiction writer, thinks "double thoughts". This duality - living a double life as a lawyer and a writer - makes Kafka a central and natural figure of the Law and Literature Movement, particularly in the Law in Literature part of the movement. This essay will highlight Banakar's contribution to the Law and Literature Movement as a socio-legal scholar and reader of Franz Kafka, with special focus on his article In Search of Heimat: A Note on Franz Kafka's Concept of Law (2010). In the article, Banakar discusses both the novel The Trial by Franz Kafka (1925) and the parable Before the Law, contained in the same novel, in to the context of Kafka's legal work as an insurance lawyer. In the essay we attempt to make a connection between the field of Law as Literature and Law and the Literature Movement. We do so by using narratives and literary techniques to give a testimony about a semi-fictional character who finds himself standing before the law. We will also pay attention to the fact that it is now 75 years since The Nuremberg trials took place 1945-1946. The Nuremberg trials.