Law and society, sociology of law

In recent years, transnational private regulations (TPRs) have gained importance in the areas of business and human rights, particularly from a consumer point of view.

This book presents an up-to-date analysis of women as victims of crime, as individuals under justice system supervision, and as professionals in the field.

This book presents an up-to-date analysis of women as victims of crime, as individuals under justice system supervision, and as professionals in the field.

This accessible handbook focuses on the importance of neuropsychological evidence and the role of the neuropsychologist as expert witness in brain injury litigation.

This accessible handbook focuses on the importance of neuropsychological evidence and the role of the neuropsychologist as expert witness in brain injury litigation.

This book explores the language of judges.

This book explores the language of judges.

This book presents an original interdisciplinary approach to the study of the so-called 'recovery phase' in disaster management, centred on the notion of repairing.

This book presents an original interdisciplinary approach to the study of the so-called 'recovery phase' in disaster management, centred on the notion of repairing.

This book seeks to understand how women judges are situated as legal knowers on the High Court of Australia by asking whether a near-equal gender balance on the High Court has disrupted the Court's historically masculinist gender regime.

This book seeks to understand how women judges are situated as legal knowers on the High Court of Australia by asking whether a near-equal gender balance on the High Court has disrupted the Court's historically masculinist gender regime.

This book bridges the disciplines of legal studies and sociology in its engaging introduction to the history, purpose, function, and influence of the Supreme Court, demonstrating through ten landmark decisions the Court's impact on the five key sociological institutions in the United States: family, education, religion, government, and economy.

This book bridges the disciplines of legal studies and sociology in its engaging introduction to the history, purpose, function, and influence of the Supreme Court, demonstrating through ten landmark decisions the Court's impact on the five key sociological institutions in the United States: family, education, religion, government, and economy.

This book offers a social theoretical analysis of imaginaries as constituent social forces of positive law and politics.

This book offers a social theoretical analysis of imaginaries as constituent social forces of positive law and politics.

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

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

Through an in-depth legal analysis by leading scholars, this book searches for the exact legal causes of land-related disputes in Asia within the histories, legal systems and social realities of the respective countries.

Through an in-depth legal analysis by leading scholars, this book searches for the exact legal causes of land-related disputes in Asia within the histories, legal systems and social realities of the respective countries.

This book explores recent developments pointing towards a 'domestic institutionalisation of human rights', composed of converging international trends prescribing the setting up of domestic institutions, and the need for a national human rights systems approach.

This book explores recent developments pointing towards a 'domestic institutionalisation of human rights', composed of converging international trends prescribing the setting up of domestic institutions, and the need for a national human rights systems approach.

Changing Legal and Civic Culture in an Illiberal Democracy is a unique empirical study on recent developments in legal and civic consciousness in Hungary.

Changing Legal and Civic Culture in an Illiberal Democracy is a unique empirical study on recent developments in legal and civic consciousness in Hungary.

This collection brings together a carefully curated selection of researchers from law, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, history, social ontology and international relations, in order to examine how law and custom interact within specific material and spatial contexts.

This collection brings together a carefully curated selection of researchers from law, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, history, social ontology and international relations, in order to examine how law and custom interact within specific material and spatial contexts.

This updated tenth edition covers all aspects of prisoners' rights, including an overview of the judicial system and constitutional law and explanation of specific constitutional issues regarding correctional populations.

This updated tenth edition covers all aspects of prisoners' rights, including an overview of the judicial system and constitutional law and explanation of specific constitutional issues regarding correctional populations.

The law is a well-known tool in fighting gender inequality, but which laws actually advance women's rights?

The law is a well-known tool in fighting gender inequality, but which laws actually advance women's rights?

This book brings together Indigenous, Third World and Settler perspectives on the theory and practice of decolonizing law.

This book brings together Indigenous, Third World and Settler perspectives on the theory and practice of decolonizing law.

The interdependent coach-athlete relationship represents the most fundamental instance of a duty of care in sport.

The interdependent coach-athlete relationship represents the most fundamental instance of a duty of care in sport.

This book makes the case for a more legally literate society and then addresses why and how a law school might contribute to achieving that.

This book makes the case for a more legally literate society and then addresses why and how a law school might contribute to achieving that.

Indigeneity is inseparable from empire, and the way empire responds to the Indigenous presence is a key historical factor in shaping the flow of imperial history.

Indigeneity is inseparable from empire, and the way empire responds to the Indigenous presence is a key historical factor in shaping the flow of imperial history.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the police role from within a broader philosophical context.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the police role from within a broader philosophical context.

In the existing literature, there is no universal standard for defining obscenity.

With increasingly divergent views and commitments, and an all-or-nothing mindset in political life, it can seem hard to sustain the level of trust in other members of our society necessary to ensure our most basic institutions work.

With increasingly divergent views and commitments, and an all-or-nothing mindset in political life, it can seem hard to sustain the level of trust in other members of our society necessary to ensure our most basic institutions work.

This book reconsiders the use of food metaphors and the relationship between law and food in an interdisciplinary perspective to examine how food related topics can be used to describe or identify rules, norms, or prescriptions of all kinds.

This book reconsiders the use of food metaphors and the relationship between law and food in an interdisciplinary perspective to examine how food related topics can be used to describe or identify rules, norms, or prescriptions of all kinds.

This book addresses the discursive importance of the prosecution's opening statement before an international criminal tribunal.

This book addresses the discursive importance of the prosecution's opening statement before an international criminal tribunal.

This book explores the phenomenon of data - big and small - in the contemporary digital, informatic and legal-bureaucratic context.

This book explores the phenomenon of data - big and small - in the contemporary digital, informatic and legal-bureaucratic context.

This book assesses the role of social justice in legal scholarship and its potential future development by focusing upon the 'leading works' of the discipline.

This book assesses the role of social justice in legal scholarship and its potential future development by focusing upon the 'leading works' of the discipline.