Law and society, sociology of law

This book is a succinct guide to company law.

Die wachsende Kluft zwischen technologischer Entwicklung und der Entwicklung rechtlicher und politischer Strukturen stellt Europa vor neue geopolitische Herausforderungen.

In the past 50 years, fewer than eighty women worldwide have attained the office of prime minister or president.

Understanding the dynamics of the illiberal practices of liberal states is increasingly important in Europe today.

Now in its sixth edition, this leading Media and Entertainment Law textbook continues to combine comprehensive coverage with rigorous analysis of a key area of the law.

Police response to incidents of intimate partner violence can be critical.

This book addresses historical issues of colonialism and race, which influenced the formation of multicultural society in Mauritius.

Los humanos creamos y recreamos constantemente la diversidad, y esa es precisamente la característica que nos humaniza y al mismo tiempo nos distingue culturalmente, por lo que sus manifestaciones bien podrían pasar inadvertidas si no fuera porque en ocasiones se utilizan para justificar exclusiones sociales de todo tipo, o como instrumentos de poder para establecer jerarquías y relaciones sociales que propician la desigualdad, explotación, subordinación, sujeción y discriminación.

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

This book addresses the largely neglected place of women defendants in contemporary international criminal law, beyond the construction of women as victims, and asks what the analysis of women perpetrators, defendants and suspects reveals about international criminal law, the media and feminism.

The Sexual Politics of Border Control conceptualises sexuality as a method of bordering and uncovers how sexuality operates as a key site for the containment, capture and regulation of movement.

This book is a critical examination of recently introduced individual accountability regimes that apply to the financial services industry in the UK (SMCR) and Australia (BEAR and the forthcoming FAR), together with a forthcoming new individual accountability regime ( in particular, SEAR) in Ireland.

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between feminist theories and the law, and the way in which developments of the former have affected, and been affected by, the latter.

This book investigates the relationship between sex and gender under international human rights law, and how this influences the formation of individual subjects.

This book offers an historical and contemporary analysis of policing and police-citizen relations in Nigeria, to understand why people co-operate (or don't) with the police.

Since its founding in 1910--the same year as another national organization devoted to the economic and social welfare aspects of race advancement, the National Urban League--the NAACP has been viewed as the vanguard national civil rights organization in American history.

Equality and Discrimination Law in Australia: An Introduction adopts a groundbreaking approach in its delivery of key principles.

This book explores how small businesses respond to the law.

This book surveys the growing field of Queer Criminology.

As Americans wrestle with red-versus-blue debates over traditional values, defense of marriage, and gay rights, reason often seems to take a back seat to emotion.

This title was first published in 2003.

Why are we still arguing over the Parthenon Marbles?

This book focuses on land use, a topic at the heart of attempts to find sustainable solutions.

Gender oppression has been a feature of war and conflict throughout human history, yet until fairly recently, little attention was devoted to addressing the consequences of violence and discrimination experienced by women in post-conflict states.

The surge in divisive and far-right politics and growing Islamophobia in Britain pose new challenges for Muslim advocacy organisations.

Understanding Family Law is a clear and concise book for students of family law.

Between Systems and Violence offers a compilation and analysis of state-level statutes targeting intimate partner violence (IPV) in immigrant and/or refugee (IMR) lives.

Gender Remade examines the role that constitutional culture played in the transition from territory to statehood in the American West.

Empathie und Mitgefühl sind Eigenschaften, die Rudolf Gerhardt für elementare Bausteine des Lebens hält.

First published in 1998, this study investigates the effectiveness of services for helping women who are survivors of domestic violence.

This treatise is used by attorneys and judges throughout California as a comprehensive resource on evidentiary and constitutional issues.

The studies in this volume use ethnographic, ethnomethodological, and sociolinguistic research to demonstrate how legal agents conduct their practices and exercise their authority in relation to non-expert participants and broader publics.

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.

The European integration project currently faces profound political, economic, legal, and societal challenges.

Offers a new theory of property and distributive justice derived from Talmudic law, illustrated by a case study involving the sale of organs for transplant.

This book focuses on the fraught relationship between cultural heritage and intellectual property, in their common concern with the creative arts.

Cultural views of femininity exerted a powerful influence on the courtroom arguments used to defend or condemn notable women on trial in nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century America.

All of us use heuristics--that is, we reach conclusions using shorthand cues without using or analyzing all of the available information.

Mooting offers a comprehensive examination of mooting and advocacy, combining both theoretical and practical aspects.

This book analyses the gendered nature of patent law and the knowledge governance system it supports.

This book expands our understanding of the growing, yet largely unstudied practice of intercountry adoption.

The first socio-legal study of legal experts and their influence on EU policy-making at national, European, and international levels.

This book examines the increasing retention and use of previous criminal record information, within and beyond the criminal justice system.

What happens when justice is delayed?

Several years after the first Greek bailout, the integration project of the European Union faces an interlocking set of political, economic, legal and social challenges that go to the very core of its existence.

Despite its centrality to academic discussions of power and influence, there is little consensus in legal scholarship over what constitutes an actor in rule-making.

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