Law and society, sociology of law

This book uses previously unknown archive materials to explore the meaning of the term 'incapable of work' over a hundred years (1911-present).

European integration is an open-ended, ongoing process which has been deeply challenged by integral world capitalism.

This ground-breaking collection reflects the growing momentum of interest in the international legal community in meshing the insights of queer legal theory with those critical theories that have a much longer genealogy - notably postcolonial and feminist analyses.

This book maps the changes in court advocacy in England and Wales over the last three centuries.

This book examines legal language as a language for special purposes, evaluating the functions and characteristics of legal language and the terminology of law.

Argues that fundamentalism in religion and law threatens democratic values, and discusses Obama''s resistance to originalism.

'Focused content, layout and price - Routledge competes and wins in relation to all of these factors' - Craig Lind, University of Sussex, UK 'The best value and best format books on the market.

Ania Zbyszewska''s feminist, socio-legal approach to the European working time regime examines its gender dynamics and influence in the Polish working time reform.

Briefs of Leading Cases in Corrections, Sixth Edition, offers extensive updates on the leading Supreme Court cases impacting corrections in the United States-prisons and jails, probation, parole, the death penalty, juvenile justice, and sexual assault offender laws.

This book examines the role and impact of EU, international human rights and refugee law on national laws and policies for integration and argues for a broad understanding of the relationship between integration and the law.

This volume in the landmark Oxford History of the Laws of England series, spans three centuries that encompassed the tumultuous years of the Norman conquest, and during which the common law as we know it today began to emerge.

This book uses film and television as a resource for addressing the social and legal ills of the city.

This volume of "e;Studies in Law, Politics, and Society"e; brings together research on law's cultural life and on institutions and actors who translate interests, preferences, and values into legal policy.

This book explores the exportation and application of European Union legislation beyond EU borders.

Winner of the 2016 Book Award from the American Society of Criminology, Division of Critical Criminology.

Featuring in-depth interviews of attorneys, judges, and seasoned forensic experts from multiple disciplines including psychology, medicine, economics, history, and neuropsychology, The Art and Science of Expert Witness Testimony highlights and offers bridges for the areas where the needs and expectations of the courtroom collide with experts' communication habits developed over years of academic and professional training.

In Patel v Mirza [2016] UKSC 42, nine justices of the Supreme Court of England and Wales decided in favour of a restitutionary award in response to an unjust enrichment, despite the illegal transaction on which that enrichment was based.

New innovations are created every day, but today's business leaders are focused on finding disruptive innovations which are cheaper and lower performing than upmarket technologies.

Analyses the highly controversial problems of DNA forensic technologies, providing important insights into their ethical, legal and societal dimensions.

In recent decades, indigenous peoples in the Yukon have signed land claim and self-government agreements that spell out the nature of government-to-government relations and grant individual First Nations significant, albeit limited, powers of governance over their peoples, lands, and resources.

Indigenous peoples in Canada are striving for greater economic prosperity and political self-determination.

While scholarly writing has dealt with the role of law in the process of European integration, so far it has shed little light on the lawyers and communities of lawyers involved in that process.

Explores the proliferation of indicators and the resulting transformations in entanglements between social science, markets and politics in public life.

Making Anti-Racial Discrimination Law examines the evolution of anti-racial discrimination law from a socio-legal perspective.

This book takes a design-oriented approach to the broad range of issues that arise in constitutional drafting concerning gender equality.

This book challenges the assumption of the decline of welfare.

This is the first book to examine the significance of European Union antitrust law for the future of sport in Europe.

The EU strives to be a leading rule-making organisation with global reach in both economic and non-economic fields.

There are more than 800,000 sworn law enforcement officers employed within the United States, many of whom are regularly tasked with photographing crime scenes or evidence associated with criminal investigations.

Federal prosecutors have immense power and discretion to decide when to bring criminal charges, what plea bargains to offer, and how to implement the federal government's legal priorities in their districts.

This book investigates how some corporations have avoided tax liability with intellectual property holding companies, and how different constituencies are working to stop them.

This book analyses how damage resulting from offshore-related incidents is compensated in European waters, whilst providing models to improve such compensation.

This book addresses and analyses the rape sentencing regime in India.

Women's Rights at Work is a comprehensive guide that begins with the point when a woman finds work right through to the end when she finishes a job throughdismissal or resignation.

Does the morality of abortion depend on the moral status of the human fetus?

This book seeks to rebalance the relationship between comparison and justification to achieve more effective equality and non-discrimination law.

In 1856, the US Supreme Court denied Dred Scott, now free of slavery, his Constitutional rights, solely because he was black.

In Tackling Rape Culture: Ending Patriarchy, Jan Jordan asks why, despite decades of feminist activism, does rape culture remain so endemic within contemporary society.

Whether you're new to higher education, coming to legal study for the first time or just wondering what Evidence Law is all about, Beginning Evidence is the ideal introduction to help you hit the ground running.

Modern Intellectual Property Law combines coverage of each intellectual property right granted for creations of the mind into a thoughtful, unified textbook.

Since the implementation of the European Directive on Takeover Bids, a European common legal framework governs regulation of takeovers in EU Members States.

Leading scholars, established and new, demonstrate a novel approach to the empirical study of global law-in-action in this second volume of a two-volume series.

Modern Tort Law is a comprehensive, accessible and up-to-date introduction to the law of torts.

This book explores an increasingly important issue for legal systems across the world.

This book assesses the implications of how children and young people are represented in print media in Northern Ireland - a post-conflict transitioning society.

What does the right to the continuous improvement of living conditions in Article 11(1) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights really mean and how can it contribute to social change?

Rwanda's Gacaca courts provide an innovative response to the genocide of 1994.

Due to the absence of due process and other procedural guarantees generally offered by judicial enforcement, informal debt collection practices (IDCPs) can become abusive, harming both consumers and the economy by threatening consumers' physical, psychological, and economic wellbeing; exposing lawabiding debt collectors to unfair competition; undermining the financial system; and negatively impacting social peace by resorting to criminal activity.

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