The impact which broad social theory actually has on legal scholarship and practice are of paradigmatic importance for interdisciplinary research. The merits of strong interaction and the limits imposed by the institutional autonomy of disciplines are scrutinized from a comparative legal and interdisciplinary perspective.

The interaction between legal scholarship, legal practice and social theory forms a crucial question of interdisciplinary research. The necessity and the limitations of such an interaction were the central subject of the 'foundations of law' panel's proceedings during the 2013 Marburg Congress of the German Association of Comparative Law. To begin with, the practice in the large centers of the USA, Europe and Japan was subjected to a legal comparative examination. In addition to that, exemplary cross-sections, or, accordingly, longitudinal intersections, were taken into consideration - for example, cartel law as an area where there are lively interdisciplinary approaches, or the historical development of financial market instruments. A general division then drew together conclusions from both a German and an international interdisciplinary perspective. This volume presents a comprehensive overview of the panel´s findings.

Inhalt
Stefan Grundmann/Jan Thiessen: Recht und Sozialtheorie im Rechtsvergleich. Interdisziplinäres Denken in Rechtswissenschaft und praxis - Aditi Bagchi: Redressing the Naked Emperor, or How to think about Political Economy and Law - Simon Deakin: Law as Evolution, Evolution as Social Order: Common Law Method Reconsidered - Aldo Schiavone: Political Theory of Democracy from an Italian Prospective - Keizo Yamamoto: Rechtsverständnis und Rechtsvergleichung - Die Erfahrungen der Rechtswissenschaft und Rechtspraxis in Japan - Daniel Zimmer: Kartellrecht und Ökonomik - Paradigma einer Wechselwirkung - Veronica Aoki Santarosa: The Legal Construction of Early Financial Markets: Lessons from the History of an Eighteenth-Century Legal Innovation - Gunther Teubner: Rechtswissenschaft und -praxis im Kontext der Sozialtheorie