David Nelken is the Distinguished Professor of Legal Institutions and Social Change (Professore Ordinario, di chiara fama) Faculty of Political Science, University of Macerata

University of Macerata

The University of Macerata is a university located in Macerata, Italy. It was founded in 1290 and is organized in 7 Faculties.-Organization:These are the 7 faculties in which the university is divided into:* Faculty of Communication Sciences...

 and the Distinguished Visiting Research Professor, Faculty of Law, Cardiff University

Cardiff University

Cardiff University is a leading research university located in the Cathays Park area of Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. It received its Royal charter in 1883 and is a member of the Russell Group of Universities. The university is consistently recognised as providing high quality research-based...

.. His work focuses primarily on comparative criminal justice and comparative sociology of law.

Books

• Beyond Law in Context: Developing a Sociological Understanding of Law, Ashgate, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7546-2802-6.
• Comparing Legal Cultures, Dartmouth 1997, Nelken D, Tsinghua university Press, Peking, China (2003) ISBN 7-302-07249-3.
• Adapting Legal Cultures, Feest J and Nelken D, Hart Publishing, Oxford (2001) pp300 ISBN 1-84113-291-8.
• Law's New Boundaries: The consequences of Legal Autopoiesis, Nelken D and Priban J, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot (2001) pp314 ISBN 0-7546-2202-9.

Book Chapters

• Berlusconi e giudici: legittimi sospetti?, Nelken D, Politica in Italia (Editors P segatti and J Blondel), Il Mulino (2003).
• Comparative Sociology of Law, Nelken D, Introduction to Law and Social Theory (Eds Max Travers and Reza Benakar), Hart, Oxford, 2002.
• Comparativists and Transfability, Nelken D, Comparative Legal Studies: Traditions and Transitions (Editors P Legrand and R Munday), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003.
• Corruption in the European Union, Nelken D, Corruption and Scandal in Temporary Politics (Eds Martin Bull and James Newell), MacMillan, London, 2003.
• L'applicazione del diversion nel tribunale di Bologna, Nelken D, I diritti dei minori tra partecipazione e controllo Edizioni Goliardiche, Bagnaria Arsa, Italy, 2003.
• Legal Transplants
  Legal transplant
  The term legal transplant was coined in the 1970s by the Scottish-American legal scholar W.A.J. 'Alan' Watson to indicate the moving of a rule or a system of law from one country to another...
  
  and Beyond: Of Disciplines and Metaphors, Nelken D, Comparative Law for the 21st century (Editors A Harding and E Orucu), Kluwer, Hague, 2003.
• Changing Legal Cultures, Nelken D, Transnational Legal Processes (Editors M B Likosky), Butterworths, London, 2002.
• Comparative Sociology of Law, Nelken D, An Introduction to Law and Sociol Theory (Editors R Banakar and M Travers), Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2002.
• Comparing Criminal Justice, Nelken D, The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (3rd edition) (Editors Maguire, Morgan and Reiner), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002.