Law and society, sociology of law

Is the death penalty a more effective deterrent than lengthy prison sentences?

The treatment of sexual minoritieswhether lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendervaries significantly in different parts of the world.

Addresses the jurisprudence of the major courts of the Global South on the topics of access to justice, cultural diversity and socioeconomic rights.

The last decade has seen important changes taking place in the tax regimes of many European countries.

The lawsuit is the cornerstone of the civil justice system in America, and an open court the foundation of American jurisprudence.

Offers a comprehensive exploration of transnational law and advances a framework for investigating transnational regulatory institutions.

This is the first comprehensive legal treatise on US food law for lawyers, judges, students, and consumer advocates.

How do lawyers, judges and jurors read novels?

The French version of this book was the winner of the 2022 Grand Prix de la Protection Sociale.

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

How cities are planned and designed has a major impact on individuals' mobility and safety.

Public Law is concerned with the law governing the institutions of the state and the relationship between the state and the individual, and is a core subject for all students reading for a qualifying law degree.

The ontology of work and the economics of value underpin the legal institution, with the existence of modern law predicated upon the subject as labourer.

Papua New Guinea s two most powerful legal orders customary law and state law undermine one another in criminal matters.

This handbook explores the dynamic new field of Environmental Restorative Justice.

All over the world, private and public institutions have been attracted to "e;nudges,"e; understood as interventions that preserve freedom of choice, but that steer people in particular directions.

Essential Contract Law for SQE1 explains the key principles of contract law in a clear, concise, and easy-to-understand style.

This book analyzes the ethics of men buying and selling sex to one another.

The Nazis and their state-sponsored cohorts stole mercilessly from the Jews of Europe.

In an era marked by processes of economic, political and legal integration that are arguably unprecedented in their range and impact, the translation of law has assumed a significance which it would be hard to overstate.

Explores the relationship between constitutional law and feminism, offering a spectrum of approaches and analysis set across a wide range of topics.

This book examines the representation and misrepresentation of queer people in true crime, addressing their status as both victims and perpetrators in actual crime, as well as how the media portrays them.

This book provides an in-depth guide to researchers and practitioners who are interested in analysing the evolution of EU law from a national and comparative constitutional law perspective.

In The Laws of Restitution, Robert Stevens shows that there is no unified law of restitution or unjust enrichment.

This book addresses the phenomenon of mergers that may result in non-coordinated effects in oligopolistic markets.

Este trabajo ofrece un estudio interdisciplinar de las diferentes instituciones del ordenamiento jurídico español que contemplan la familia desde la promulgación de la Constitución española de 1978.

Esta obra realiza un estudio exhaustivo del fundamento, la regulación y la eficacia de los diferentes mecanismos de protección a testigos, víctimas, coimputados y agentes encubiertos, en casos de criminalidad organizada.

How can children grow to realize their inherent rights and respect the rights of others?

Reproduction and the Constitution in the United States dissects the forces that shape US conflicts over birth control and abortion.

Democracy in the Courts examines lay participation in the administration of justice and how it reflects certain democratic principles.

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

Bringing together scholars, journalists, and researchers from 27 European countries, this book provides a comparative and longitudinal analysis of the evolution of conditions and standards relevant for sustainable, free, and plural media and journalism in Europe in the last ten years.

Revised and Expanded EditionWait-what's wrong with rights?

Key Cases has been specifically written for students studying law.

Fresh approaches to how premodern women were viewed in legal terms, demonstrating how this varied from country to country and across the centuries.

In this book, Benjamin Farrand employs an interdisciplinary approach that combines legal analysis with political theory to explore the development of copyright law in the EU.

The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology is a ground-breaking collection of essays that provides an original and internationally framed conception of the historical, theoretical, and ethnographic interconnections of law and anthropology.

Hetcher applies his theory of norms to tort law and Internet privacy laws.

First published in 1999, this book focuses on the new role of private law in late modernity.

Critical yet accessible, this book provides an overview of the current debates about the 'Europeanization' of contract law.

The increasing number of executive tasks assigned to EU institutions and agencies has resulted in a greater demand for justice that can no longer be satisfied by the courts alone.

As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded, stark social inequalities have increasingly been revealed and, in many cases, exacerbated by the global health crisis.

Competition law is a complex and constantly evolving area of law which affects every aspect of the market economy, including the financial services sector.