Law and society, sociology of law

Recent historians have pinpointed the ways in which legal systems in early modern Europe were improvisational, flexible, and contingent rather than immovable, hierarchical, and gendered.

Waste management poses increasing challenges to both the protection of the environment and to human health.

The question of tolerance and Islam is not a new one.

In recent years new or experimental approaches to governance in the EU, namely the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), have attracted great interest and controversy.

Banking regulation and the private law governing the bank-customer relationship came under the spotlight as a result of the global financial crisis of 2007-2009.

Long established as the market leading textbook on sports law, this much-anticipated new edition offers a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the legal issues surrounding and governing sport internationally.

Taking the Arab Spring as its case study, this book explores the role of law and constitutions during societal upheavals, and critically evaluates the different trajectories they could follow in a revolutionary setting.

Can the Australian state be restructured to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and ensure that their distinct voices are heard in the processes of government?

Unlocking Criminal Law will help you grasp the main concepts of the subject with ease.

Analyses European Union governance from the perspective of polycentric theory, aimed at improvements in achieving individual self-governance.

This book analyzes the dispute settlement mechanisms under the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI), including the already established mechanisms for general state-to-state dispute settlement and the Mechanism to Address Differences for investment and sustainable development issues.

How should we understand transgenderism, especially as it affects children and adolescents?

In the contemporary fascination with images of crime, violence gets under our skin and keeps us enthralled.

This book explores the ways language is used by the professional legal community for the communication of its main business - the negotiation of justice - in today's globalized world.

We live in a world of one-size-fits-all law.

In recent decades, the issue of gender-based violence has become heavily politicized in India.

During the 2000 presidential campaign, George W.

Uwe Kischel's comprehensive treatise on comparative law offers a critical introduction to the central tenets of comparative legal scholarship.

Now in its fifth edition, this textbook combines comprehensive coverage with rigorous analysis of a key area of the law.

Exploring the connection between families and inequality, Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships argues that the legal regulation of families stands fundamentally at odds with the needs of families.

In three parts, this volume in the AP-LS series explores the phenomena of captivity and risk management, guided and informed by the theory, method, and policy of psychological jurisprudence.

This book examines a largely unexplored dimension of the European agencies, namely their role in EU external relations and on the international plane.

Evidence-based solutions and practical steps to preserve privacy online.

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

Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law -The Legacy of Modernism addresses the legacy of contemporary critiques of language for the concept of the rule of law.

This volume assembles leading scholars to examine how their respective theoretical positions relate to the artifactual nature of law.

Critical Race Theory (CRT) is virtually unheard of in European scholarship, especially among legal scholars.

Given the recent revival of nationalism in many parts of the world in tandem with new conflicts and forms of interventionism, this book uses the case of Kosovo to discuss some of key problems around contemporary practices of state-building.

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Criminality has accompanied social life from the outset.

An Equal Place is a monumental study of the role of lawyers in the movement to challenge economic inequality in one of America's most unequal cities: Los Angeles.

Exploring the impact of the International Criminal Tribunal (ICTY) on regime change in Serbia, this book examines the relationship between international criminal justice and democratisation.

This book presents an invaluable collection of essays by eminent scholars from a wide variety of disciplines on the main issues currently confronting legal professions across the world.

Explains the current weakness of democratic polities by addressing paradoxes in constitutional democracy and its theoretical foundations.

Relying on a multidisciplinary framework of inquiry and critical perspective, this edited volume addresses the unique experiences of Black males within various stages of contact in the criminal justice system.

While the 21st century bears witness to several conflicts leading to mass displacement, the conflict in Syria has crystallised the need for a solid legal framework and legal certainty.

This book critically examines domestic violence law in India.

Handbook of Forensic Photography is the most-comprehensive, definitive reference for the use of photography in the capture and presentation of forensic evidence.

The growth of international law in the post-World War II era stemmed partly from the belief that universal norms would make life for the entire world's population safer, more equitable, and more conducive to each person's acquisition of basic material needs.

How human rights principles, like the right to gender identity, freedom, integrity and equality, respond to the concerns of different groups of adults and children who experience gender harm due to the binary conception of sexuality and gender identity is the overall theme of this book.

A concise and readable guide to reasoning about the source and content of contractual obligations when disagreements arise.

A myth exists that Jews can embrace the cultural components of Judaism without appreciating the legal aspects of the Jewish tradition.

How cities are planned and designed has a major impact on individuals' mobility and safety.

That 'poor law was law' is a fact that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in England and Wales, and in North America.

The Oxford Handbook of Administrative Justice examines the wide range of scholarship exploring the administrative decisions made by public authorities that affect individual citizens and the mechanisms available for the provision of redress.

Sex work occupies a legally gray space in Johannesburg, South Africa, and police attitudes towards it are inconsistent and largely unregulated.

This book explains why we should stop thinking of freedom as limited to a right to be left alone.

This book demonstrates the difference a feminist approach to criminal law could make in all of our lives.

This book discusses the revolutionary broadening of concepts of freedom of press and freedom of speech in Great Britain and in America in the late eighteenth century, in the period that produced state declarations of rights and then the First Amendment and Fox's Libel Act.