Law and society, sociology of law

Shareholder treaty claims risk multiple recovery and prejudice to third parties.

The insolvency of states is by no means a rare or new phenomenon.

English is the dominant language of international business relations, and a good working knowledge of the language is essential for today's legal or business professional.

Explores the social and cultural significance of Chinese communist legal practice in constructing marriage and gender relations in the turbulent period from 1940 to 1960.

Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution aims to further our understanding of judicial policy impact and the role of the courts in shaping policy change.

Law and Gender in Modern Ireland: Critique and Reform is the first generalist text to tackle the intersection of law and gender in this jurisdiction for over two decades.

The problem of social control has constituted the acid test for the entire issue of immigration and integration.

Transnational business activities are important drivers of growth for developing and the least developed countries.

This title was first published in 2003: The problem of legitimacy and legality is one of the key issues of modern thought and nowhere more intensely debated than in the countries of the former Soviet bloc.

Providing short, clear and accessible explanations of the main areas of EU law, Understanding European Union Law is both an ideal introduction for students new to EU law and an essential addition to revision for the more accomplished.

Vertrauensverluste und Glaubwürdigkeitskrisen von gesellschaftlichen Institutionen sind Ausdruck der Pluralisierung von Werten und Normen und der zunehmenden Verhandelbarkeit, Labilität und Ungewissheit für allgemein und beständig genommener Verbindlichkeiten.

This book examines the lines between online joking and legal consequences and analyzes legal and educational responses to these issues.

Millions of Americans rely on the likes of birth control, IVF, and genetic testing to make plans as intimate and farreaching as any over a lifetime.

This book shows how Rwanda''s mass courts for genocide crimes helped ensure political stability and authoritarian control for Rwandan elites.

Over the last few decades, there has been a marked increase in media and debate surrounding a specific group of offences in modern Democratic nations which bear the brunt of the label 'crimes against morality'.

Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in an exam situation.

First published in 1998, this volume aims to draw attention to an ongoing shift in the perception of law, which is now increasingly understood as a cultural and historical phenomenon.

This book explores the discrepancies among what protections Title IX provides to pregnant and parenting students, what colleges communicate, and what pregnant and parenting students actually experience.

This book examines how alcohol intoxication impacts upon the memory of rape victims and provides recommendations for how best to investigate and prosecute such rape complaints.

First reader to feature key law and society research and debates in nearly all Asian countries.

A striking new analysis of Myanmar''s court system, revealing how the rule of law is ''lexically present but semantically absent''.

This book is a critical summary and exegesis of the work of Nicole Rafter, who was a leading scholar of the history of biological theories of crime causation as well as a profound theorist of the role of history within criminology.

Infanticide examines medical expert evidence in infanticide cases, focusing specifically on the shifting notion of "e;certainty"e; in medical testimony.

In recent decades, asylum has emerged as a highly politicized European issue.

The judgment of the European Court of Justice concerning the Kadi case has raised substantive and procedural issues that have caught the attention of scholars from many disciplines including EU law, constitutional law, international law and jurisprudence.

Social work has long been working directly with the criminal and civil courts of the justice system.

Is prostitution immoral?

This book makes a distinctive and innovative contribution to the study of white-collar and corporate crime through detailed examination of the use, affect, and violation of the corporate social license - a concept frequently extended to a license to operate.

In light of ongoing concerns about the treatment of survivors, Rape Trials in England and Wales critically examines court responses to rape and sexual assault.

This edited collection brings together leading academics in their respective fields to examine the European Union's impact on media and public policy.

In what ways do local authorities respond to the increasing socio-cultural heterogeneity of urban populations?

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

Studies the Indian state''s difficult dialogue with divorce, mediated largely through religion.

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

Policing Sex in the Sunflower State: The Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women is the history of how, over a span of two decades, the state of Kansas detained over 5,000 women for no other crime than having a venereal disease.

A harrowing journey through the past, present, and future of mining, this expertly-researched account ends on a vision for how industry can better serve the needs of humanity.

The dramatic results of the 2014 European Parliament elections have highlighted the European Union's urgent need for a review of the scope and purpose of its social objectives and for a reordering of European priorities.

America is driven by vengeance in Aladjem''s timely analysis, and the fate of democratic justice hangs in the balance.

"e;It hurts to be beautiful"e; has been a cliche for centuries.

This book interrogates Conservative government penal policy for adult and young adult offenders in England and Wales between 2015 and 2021.

Grounded in Critical Race Theory (CRT), Black Men in Law School refutes the claim that when African American law students are "e;mismatched"e; with more selective law schools, the result is lower levels of achievement and success.

An innovative study of the establishment of ''age'' as a political category in late colonial India.

This is the first collection to examine the legal dynamics of deinstitutionalisation.

Contract law is a core element of every law degree in England and Wales.

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

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles within the broad parameters of interdisciplinary legal scholarship.

A trenchant critique of developments in civil justice that questions modern orthodoxy and points to a downgrading of civil justice.

Privacy, which digital citizens eagerly relinquish, is not so essential to the health and welfare of democracy after all.

This book presents a theory-historically grounded blueprint for a responsive sociology of law.