Law and society, sociology of law

Analyzes the efforts to forge a progressive and ''authentic'' Israeli law that would express Jewish identity.

Focuses on what happens when the American public gets decide on the fate of capital punishment.

Explores how performance measurement systems shape South African court and managerial prosecutors'' understanding of accountability and their legal work practices.

Using a wealth of court records, Colonizing Consent shows how rape cases were caught up in, and helped shape, the major political debates in colonial South Africa.

Personalism points to reforming criminal justice from the person up by changing criminal law and enlisting civil society institutions.

Discusses natural law as a traditional but highly contested source of canon law.

Explores the impact of legal ideas and legal consciousness on early modern English society and culture.

A critical legal study of religion and state relations in Israel focusing on the religiously entrapped Palestinian-Arab individuals.

This book offers an approach to care and support policy prioritizing gender equality, disability human rights and dignity for all.

Examines gift exchanges as a foundational notion both in anthropology and in debates about international economic governance.

If you''ve dreamed of walking free of sexual harassment, you will understand why it''s time to end stop-and-frisk policing.

A critical legal study of religion and state relations in Israel focusing on the religiously entrapped Palestinian-Arab individuals.

This book offers an approach to care and support policy prioritizing gender equality, disability human rights and dignity for all.

Examines how personality traits shape the behavior of US Supreme Court justices, proposing a new theory of judicial behavior.

Explains how and why laws against human germline modification will do more harm than good.

An introduction to how belonging and identity have been reflected, modified, and rearticulated in crucial moments throughout history.

This book details how, in poor communities, access to healthcare and social support is linked to punishment systems.

An analysis of law and imperial rule reveals that Tsarist Russia was far more ''lawful'' than generally assumed.

Analyses the relation of preventive and curative health policy and its evolution over time.

Detailed study of the ICC''s practice in prosecuting gender-based crimes, current up to the ICC Statute''s twentieth anniversary in 2018.

An introduction to how belonging and identity have been reflected, modified, and rearticulated in crucial moments throughout history.

An analysis of law and imperial rule reveals that Tsarist Russia was far more ''lawful'' than generally assumed.

This book details how, in poor communities, access to healthcare and social support is linked to punishment systems.

Focuses on what happens when the American public gets decide on the fate of capital punishment.

Argues that treating people and artificial intelligence differently under the law results in unexpected and harmful outcomes for social welfare.

Law''s Wars is the first comprehensive account of efforts to resist and correct rule of law violations in the US ''war on terror''.

Provides compelling examples of engaged legal scholarship addressing issues of entrenched poverty and underdevelopment in American urban cores.

Explores the role of NGOs as mediators in crucial litigation cases on women''s rights in South Africa.

Explores the role of criminal intent in constituting felony in the first two centuries of the English criminal trial jury.

A feminist rewrite of tort law cases that reveals gender bias and the law''s failure to redress serious harms to women.

A theoretical and practical exploration of the constitutional bar against cruel and unusual punishments, excessive bail, and excessive fines.

This volume studies the implications of the right to inclusive education in human rights law for disability law, policy and practice.

Explores the ECtHR''s understanding of what it means to be a ''father'' and the role of doctrines of interpretation.

A timely and comprehensive history of female husbands in Anglo-America from the eighteenth through the turn of the twentieth century.

Few treatments of Catholic Social Teaching are as comprehensive as this, and none is nearly so devoted to a critical scholarly presentation and analysis of the whole corpus.

Explores how performance measurement systems shape South African court and managerial prosecutors'' understanding of accountability and their legal work practices.

It humanizes high-level debates over indicators and data in development aid, showing how they are used to make life-or-death decisions.

A timely and comprehensive history of female husbands in Anglo-America from the eighteenth through the turn of the twentieth century.

Provides compelling examples of engaged legal scholarship addressing issues of entrenched poverty and underdevelopment in American urban cores.

Explores the role of criminal intent in constituting felony in the first two centuries of the English criminal trial jury.

Reveals how early modern religious conceptions of covenant and community were deployed for surprisingly radical political ends.

Personalism points to reforming criminal justice from the person up by changing criminal law and enlisting civil society institutions.

A theoretical and practical exploration of the constitutional bar against cruel and unusual punishments, excessive bail, and excessive fines.

Explains the adoption, diffusion of, and resistance to gender quotas in politics, corporate boards and public administration across Europe.

This book studies the rise of access over ownership and the sharing economy''s challenges to the liberal vision of property.

Recovers a contested, evolving tradition of conservative constitutional argument that shaped the past and is bidding to make the future.

Examines the social, legal and cultural challenges navigating the boundaries of ''normal''-''problematic''-''risky'' sexual behaviours among peers.

The costs of racially disparate patterns of police behavior are high, but the crime fighting benefits are low.

How should the law deal with the challenges of advancing biotechnology?

Law''s Trials analyzes the performance of US courts in upholding the rule of law during the ''war on terror''.