Law and society, sociology of law

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''.

Promoting cultural and scientific creativity, and knowledge and understanding, cultural rights work as atrocity prevention tools and enable people to aspire to a better future.

Shows that the diverse ways of reasoning and judging in our law arise from the same root: a commitment to liberal legality.

Innovation has a dark side.

Examines the causes for mass incarceration of Americans and calls for the reform of the bail system.

This book reveals the surprising impact of medicine stamp duty (1783–1941) on pharmaceutical practice and the interface of law and government.

A fresh perspective on socialist law as practiced in China and Vietnam, two major socialist states.

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

Offering intentional parenthood as the most appropriate, flexible and just normative doctrine for resolving the various dilemmas that have surfaced in the modern era.

This book examines the meaning and significance of finality in capital cases.

This book examines the meaning and significance of finality in capital cases.

This book provides a ground-breaking discussion of the human right to make decisions in our own lives.

This book discusses American and European policies surrounding deinstitutionalization and community living, including Articles 12 and 19 of the UNCRPD.

This book evaluates how structural reform litigation initiated by federal intervention has transformed police departments and reduced law enforcement misconduct.

This book evaluates how structural reform litigation initiated by federal intervention has transformed police departments and reduced law enforcement misconduct.

This book provides a ground-breaking discussion of the human right to make decisions in our own lives.

This book discusses American and European policies surrounding deinstitutionalization and community living, including Articles 12 and 19 of the UNCRPD.

Examines a trio of key concepts that help to stabilize states and the international order: human rights, democracy, and legitimacy.

Shows how the Supreme Court can repair its diminished legitimacy in a society committed to diversity and inclusion.

Shows how the Supreme Court can repair its diminished legitimacy in a society committed to diversity and inclusion.

The book explores the role and importance of reason and emotion in justice and the law.

Explores the shaping of China and India''s energy and climate policies by two-level pressures characterized as wealth, status and asymmetrical interdependence.