Law and society, sociology of law

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

Feminist scholars rewrite major tax decisions in order to illustrate the key role of viewpoint in statutory interpretation.

First Published in 1992.

Will Donald trump international law?

Drawing on ancestral cosmology of Australia''s indigenous people, this book develops a theory of indigenous peoples'' innovation and intellectual property.

This book questions what practices constitute a ''religious activity'' such that it cannot be supported or funded by government.

This textbook covers the Contract Law option of the new A-level law syllabus, and provides at the same time an ideal introduction for anybody coming to the subject for the first time.

In the past fifteen years there has been a marked increase in the international scholarship relating to women in law.

Drawing upon socio-legal research, this insightful book considers labour migration within the context of ('eastward') European Union enlargement.

At a time when social and political reality seems to move away from the practice of cosmopolitanism, whilst being in serious need of a new international framework to regulate global interaction, what are the new definitions and practices of cosmopolitanism?

There has been much discussion in the last ten years about the need to reform the law governing company charge registration, with many bodies including the Department of Trade and Industry and Law Commissions considering the case for reform of this area in the context of a wider scheme of personal property security reform.

A collection of papers presenting critical perspectives in the development of asylum law with a focus on European and UK developments, incorporating international human rights law and comparative law perspectives.

In this book, a judge at the Shari''a Court of Jerusalem explains the religious law of Muslim minorities.

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

The effects of COVID-19 are visited disproportionately on the already disadvantaged.

Casinos are often used by political economists, and popular commentators, to think critically about capitalism.

Branded as "e;the new Falun Gong"e; by local authorities, The Church of Almighty God is the most persecuted religious movement in China today.

Explains the rapid rise of China''s innovation system and provides a roadmap for the prospects of China''s AI development.

This collection is in honour of Adrian Zuckerman, Emeritus Professor of Civil Procedure at the University of Oxford.

Exploring the impact of the International Criminal Tribunal (ICTY) on regime change in Serbia, this book examines the relationship between international criminal justice and democratisation.

The EU has slowly but surely developed a solid body of equality law that prohibits different facets of discrimination.

Offering a fresh view on the EU constitutionalisation process, the new edition of The Tangled Complexity of the EU Constitutional Process presents three main points: the idea of constitutional complexity, the tension between constitutional evolutionism and constitutional constructivism in the process of European integration, and the functional nature of conflicts in the evolution of the EU.

Explores how Martin Luther King, Jr built his advocacy on moral claims of love, justice and human nature.

This ground-breaking textbook engages readers in conversation about responding to the effects of diversity within formal criminal justice systems in Westernized nation-states.

The role of the judiciary is constantly evolving and is in many ways more important than ever.

This book critically analyzes the European Union's promotion of LGBTI rights in the international arena.

This title was first published in 2002: Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650-1950 provides a critical synthesis of the growing body of work on the history of British and European juvenile delinquency.

This new edition of Education, Law and Diversity provides extensive updated analysis, from a legal perspective, of how the education system responds to social diversity and how the relevant social and cultural rights of individuals and groups are affected.

The Data Protection and Medical Research in Europe: PRIVIREAL series represents the results of this EC-funded project examining the implementation of Directive 95/46/EC on data protection in relation to medical research and the role of ethics committees in European countries.

Since its inception, the European Union (EU) has revised its foundational treaties several times, resulting in national ratification processes involving different actors, with varying success.

A compelling look at the crisis of disadvantaged women This powerful document takes a sobering look at the phenomenon of marginalized women pushed to the edges of society, holding on with the barest of hope and extraordinary bravery.

Trials are well known as paradigmatic legal events.

Arguing that law must be looked at holistically, this book investigates the 'hidden gender' of the so-called neutral or objective legal principles that structure the law addressing violence against women.

Members of racial groups are protected under international law against genocide, persecution, and apartheid.

With the developing landscape of a European criminal justice sphere comes an increasing imperative for scholars and practitioners to gain some insight into the diversity that exists in the criminal justice systems of European Union Member States.

The book examines the intellectual history of the concept of sovereignty from a sociological perspective.

A día de hoy no existe una disposición legal que referencie la naturaleza jurídica de las estancias que configuran los depósitos municipales de detenidos, encontrándonos en un escenario con múltiples intervinientes físicos y jurídicos que no pueden homogeneizar las garantías jurídicas consignadas en nuestra Carta Magna a las personas privadas temporalmente de libertad.

This book is the second in a series of essay collections on defences in private law.

This is the first book to unpack the legal and ethical issues surrounding unauthorised intimate examinations during labour.

What remains anti-democratic in our criminal justice systems, and where does it come from?

This book shadows the usage of ''Uncle Tom'' to understand how social norms associated with the phrase were constructed and enforced.

A poignant account of everyday polygamy and what its regulation reveals about who is viewed as an "e;Other"e;In the past thirty years, polygamy has become a flashpoint of conflict as Western governments attempt to regulate certain cultural and religious practices that challenge seemingly central principles of family and justice.

The first state-of-the-art, comprehensive resource to encompass the wide breadth of the rapidly growing field of Judaism and health.

Crime is an American preoccupation.

Is justice possible for a woman raped in contemporary patriarchal culture?

This book analyzes the role of laws and the judiciary in the process of censorship in India.

Language skills, study skills, argument skills and the skills associated with dispute resolution are vital to every law student, professional lawyer and academic.