Law and society, sociology of law

The first in-depth study to integrate the study of legal language with analysis of multimodal communication.

Examines how law regulates religion and explores the influence of world religions on the legal systems in Asia.

Malcolm Feeley''s classic scholarship on courts, criminal justice, legal reform, and the legal complex, examined by law and society scholars.

This book is an urban ethnographic study of several Muslim women''s organisations in northern India.

This is the first book to map and explain compliance with judgments of social rights across multiple jurisdictions.

This book documents and explains the differences in the ways Americans and Europeans approach the issues of privacy and intelligence gathering.

This book looks at how top-down efforts to strengthen property rights are unlikely to succeed without demand for law from private firms.

The first book to provide a socio-legal perspective on current interrelations between globalization, borders, families and the law.

This is the first book to map and explain compliance with judgments of social rights across multiple jurisdictions.

This book documents and explains the differences in the ways Americans and Europeans approach the issues of privacy and intelligence gathering.

This book looks at how top-down efforts to strengthen property rights are unlikely to succeed without demand for law from private firms.

The first book to provide a socio-legal perspective on current interrelations between globalization, borders, families and the law.

Provides a new legal-sociological theory of democracy, reflecting the impact of global law on national political institutions.

This sweeping sociological analysis traces the emergence of intellectual property as a new type of legal property.

Provides a new legal-sociological theory of democracy, reflecting the impact of global law on national political institutions.

This sweeping sociological analysis traces the emergence of intellectual property as a new type of legal property.

Offers a more complex and nuanced understanding of the Russian justice system than stereotypes and preconceptions lead us to believe.

Looks at international negotiation from a novel, relational international law perspective and challenges prescriptive models.

This new history of the Christian Right considers how conservative evangelicals in the modern American South forged a political identity.

This new history of the Christian Right considers how conservative evangelicals in the modern American South forged a political identity.

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

Can the nation state survive the internet?

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

Can the nation state survive the internet?

Leading experts in EU constitutional law examine the foundational importance of citizenship rights in delimiting the scope of EU law.

This book represents the first attempt to examine how EU fundamental rights are protected and enforced by EU governing bodies.

Leading experts in EU constitutional law examine the foundational importance of citizenship rights in delimiting the scope of EU law.

This book represents the first attempt to examine how EU fundamental rights are protected and enforced by EU governing bodies.

This collection of self-reflective essays explores the relations between international legal professions and their respective understandings of international law.

This book examines the lessons learned from twenty-five years of using DNA to free innocent prisoners and identifies lingering challenges.

A large-scale comparative work of leading cases examines judicial constitutional reasoning in eighteen different legal systems globally.

This collection of self-reflective essays explores the relations between international legal professions and their respective understandings of international law.

This book examines the lessons learned from twenty-five years of using DNA to free innocent prisoners and identifies lingering challenges.

A large-scale comparative work of leading cases examines judicial constitutional reasoning in eighteen different legal systems globally.

This book illuminates how law and politics interact in the judicial doctrines and explores how democracy sustains and is sustained by the exercise of judicial power.

This book illuminates how law and politics interact in the judicial doctrines and explores how democracy sustains and is sustained by the exercise of judicial power.

Modern Criminal Law of Australia, 2nd edition is a guide to interpreting and understanding statutory offence provisions in every Australian jurisdiction.

An original account of the 1975 constitutional crisis and its continuing relevance for informal constitutional change in contemporary Australian law.

Modern Criminal Law of Australia, 2nd edition is a guide to interpreting and understanding statutory offence provisions in every Australian jurisdiction.

An original account of the 1975 constitutional crisis and its continuing relevance for informal constitutional change in contemporary Australian law.

Through the lens of time, the book critiques environmental law and recommends ways to enable it to respond to nature''s time scales.

Follows the activist campaign that contested the Botswana government''s removal of indigenous peoples from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.

Through the lens of time, the book critiques environmental law and recommends ways to enable it to respond to nature''s time scales.

A contextualized and critical reading of the origin and evolution of China''s rural land takings law.

This book explores the underlying philosophies and values that inform the speech rules that a government or community institutes.

This book explores the underlying philosophies and values that inform the speech rules that a government or community institutes.

A comparative approach to judicial communication offering perspectives on the relationship between national supreme courts and the media covering them.

A fascinating account of how Islam can be deployed or resisted to shape minority rights and religious change in Muslim societies.

This book assembles a range of work by researchers who have entered the social worlds of global organizations.

The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law provides a conceptual and historical account of the Jewish understanding of law.