Law and society, sociology of law

This book outlines the constitutional argument in favor of plural marriage in the United States.

Since 1997, the walls of law around Hong Kong have come under attack.

An in-depth study of the international circulation of ideas and practices of law and governance in colonial India.

This book outlines the constitutional argument in favor of plural marriage in the United States.

This volume explores how nine different religious and secular traditions deal with pluralism, dissent, and the challenges these issues pose.

Díez explores how and why Latin America has become a leader among nations in the passage of gay marriage legislation.

Jan Oster develops a coherent theoretical and doctrinal framework for the scope, content and limitations of media freedom.

Leading scholars address the interface between intellectual property and diversity with respect to culture, religion, race, and gender.

This book explores the development of immigrant rights litigation over the past four decades in the United States and France.

This highly accessible book investigates the rankings that increasingly influence perceptions of countries'' governance and civil rights.

Where do law and medicine converge and diverge in their responses to and understandings of harm and suffering?

Where do law and medicine converge and diverge in their responses to and understandings of harm and suffering?

This highly accessible book investigates the rankings that increasingly influence perceptions of countries'' governance and civil rights.

This book explores the development of immigrant rights litigation over the past four decades in the United States and France.

Leading scholars address the interface between intellectual property and diversity with respect to culture, religion, race, and gender.

A striking new analysis of Myanmar''s court system, revealing how the rule of law is ''lexically present but semantically absent''.

This book reflects the wide range of current scholarship on Roman law, covering private, criminal and public law.

A striking new analysis of Myanmar''s court system, revealing how the rule of law is ''lexically present but semantically absent''.

Explores family policies related to households of children with disabilities, providing an in-depth, evidence-based review of legal, programmatic issues.

Explores family policies related to households of children with disabilities, providing an in-depth, evidence-based review of legal, programmatic issues.

This book reflects the wide range of current scholarship on Roman law, covering private, criminal and public law.

Considers different understandings of privacy and provides examples of legal responses to the threats associated with new modalities of surveillance and digital technology.

This book shadows the usage of ''Uncle Tom'' to understand how social norms associated with the phrase were constructed and enforced.

Transnational Legal Orders offers an empirically grounded approach to the emergence of legal orders beyond nation-states that reframes the study of law and society.

Considers different understandings of privacy and provides examples of legal responses to the threats associated with new modalities of surveillance and digital technology.

This book shadows the usage of ''Uncle Tom'' to understand how social norms associated with the phrase were constructed and enforced.

Transnational Legal Orders offers an empirically grounded approach to the emergence of legal orders beyond nation-states that reframes the study of law and society.

Tying the Autocrat''s Hands provides a comprehensive, empirical evaluation of legal reforms in contemporary China.

A comprehensive study offering the first comparative account of the increasing dependence on expertise in the asylum and refugee status determination process.

This book examines the lines between online joking and legal consequences and analyzes legal and educational responses to these issues.

This book examines the lines between online joking and legal consequences and analyzes legal and educational responses to these issues.

A comprehensive study offering the first comparative account of the increasing dependence on expertise in the asylum and refugee status determination process.

Tying the Autocrat''s Hands provides a comprehensive, empirical evaluation of legal reforms in contemporary China.

This book sets the record straight about the United States'' move toward extreme religious liberty and argues for a return to common-sense religious liberty.

This book sets the record straight about the United States'' move toward extreme religious liberty and argues for a return to common-sense religious liberty.

A collection on cultural law that demonstrates efficacy of comparative, international, and indigenous law in the context of culture-related issues.

A critical and in-depth analysis of access to justice from international and Islamic perspectives, with a specific focus on access by women.

This book brings together the work of several distinguished scholars to chart the uses of civility in American legal and political discourse.

This book explores the struggle for disability rights, with a focus on Web equality for people with cognitive disabilities.

This book explores the struggle for disability rights, with a focus on Web equality for people with cognitive disabilities.

A critical and in-depth analysis of access to justice from international and Islamic perspectives, with a specific focus on access by women.

This book brings together the work of several distinguished scholars to chart the uses of civility in American legal and political discourse.

This is the first book on the landmark 1965 Immigration Act, which ended race-based immigration quotas and reshaped American demographics.

This book shows how Rwanda''s mass courts for genocide crimes helped ensure political stability and authoritarian control for Rwandan elites.

This is the first book on the landmark 1965 Immigration Act, which ended race-based immigration quotas and reshaped American demographics.

This book shows how Rwanda''s mass courts for genocide crimes helped ensure political stability and authoritarian control for Rwandan elites.

The perception of the immigrant as criminal or deviant has a long history in the United States, with many groups (e.

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.

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.

A Guide to Landlord and Tenant Law provides a strong foundation in commercial landlord and tenant, and housing law.