Law and society, sociology of law

Criminal Law and Criminal Justice: Morals and Policy goes beyond the traditional criminal law textbook and invites students to question why we criminalise certain behaviour and whether the decisions made by the courts can be justified according to legal principle, morals and policy.

Is there a future for the law?

Following the NFL's desegregation in 1946, opportunities became increasingly plentiful for African American players--but not African American coaches.

The Protections for Religious Rights is the first practitioner work to offer a full and systematic treatment of the law as it pertains to religious rights in the UK and abroad.

Paola Janßen formuliert richterliche Überzeugungsbildung als subjektives statistisches Entscheidungsproblem und bezieht sich damit auf eine methodische Schnittstelle zwischen Statistik und Jurisprudenz.

This volume takes a critical look at the gender of tax policy around the world.

A comprehensive study offering the first comparative account of the increasing dependence on expertise in the asylum and refugee status determination process.

This book investigates what happens to criminal evidence after the conclusion of legal proceedings.

The insolvency of multinational corporate groups creates a compelling challenge to the commercial world.

Using a wealth of court records, Colonizing Consent shows how rape cases were caught up in, and helped shape, the major political debates in colonial South Africa.

Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives examines the relationship between legal pluralities and the prospects for greater gender justice in developing countries.

This book engages with and advances the current debate on new governance by providing a much-needed analysis of its relationship with the courts.

While an abundance of literature covers the right of states to defend themselves against external aggression, this is the first book dedicated to the right to personal self-defense in international law.

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Health Law addresses some of the most critical issues facing scholars, legislators, and judges today: how to protect against threats to public health that can quickly cross national borders, how to ensure access to affordable health care, and how to regulate the pharmaceutical industry, among many others.

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

This collection considers how contemporary cultural and religious diversity challenges and redefines national constitutional and legal frameworks and concepts, within the context of education.

The first textbook to consider gender perspectives in relation to the whole undergraduate law curriculum in England and Wales.

Examines gift exchanges as a foundational notion both in anthropology and in debates about international economic governance.

Much has been written on specific religious legal systems, yet substantial comparative studies that strive to compare systems, identifying their analogies and differences, have been relatively few.

What role does linguistic diversity play in European democratic and legal processes?

Argues that fundamentalism in religion and law threatens democratic values, and discusses Obama''s resistance to originalism.

Understanding Company Law is a lively introduction to modern company law.

Domestic Violence as State Crime presents a provocative challenge to the way that domestic violence is understood and addressed.

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

This book focuses on current frontier-related issues such as humanitarian crises, economic crises, discrimination of migrants in certain countries, different typologies of borders such as land, maritime, air, space, and even cyberspace borders, and environmental protection of water resources at borders.

From Truth to Technique addresses key questions raised by the burgeoning literature in what Philip Gaines calls advocacy advice texts-manuals, handbooks, and other how-to guides-written by lawyers for lawyers, both practicing and aspiring, to help them be as effective as possible in trial advocacy.

It is now well established that the law of unjust enrichment forms an important and distinctive part of the English law of obligations.

While the European integration project is facing new challenges, abandonments and criticism, it is often forgotten that there are powerful legal instruments that allow citizens to protect and extend their rights.

This book develops a responsible and practical method for evaluating the success, failure, or "e;crisis"e; of American civil-military relations among its political and uniformed elite.

This book considers the law, policy and procedure for child witnesses in Australian criminal courts across the twentieth century.

This book honors the diverse and path-breaking work of Michael Adler, a pioneer of socio-legal scholarship in the UK.

This work considers the role of local government in 13 EU Member States (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

An overriding value of European legislation on waste management is the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) principle.

This original book is a comprehensive, richly documented and critical examination of laws applicable to Anglican cathedrals in England, some of the most iconic monuments in the national heritage and centres of spiritual and cultural capital.

This book addresses key questions around gender-sensitive legislation as a key output of gender sensitive Parliaments and explores practical ways to promote gender-sensitive ex-ante scrutiny of legislation, improve implementation through gender responsive budgeting, assess the gender impact of legislation ex post and express laws in gender inclusive ways.

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

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the case of Corbett v Corbett, a landmark in terms of law's engagement with sexual identity, marriage, and transgender rights.

Essential Constitutional and Administrative Law for SQE1 explains key principles of the UK constitution, the organs of the state, judicial review, as well as retained EU law/assimilated law, in a clear, concise, and easy-to-understand style.

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

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the immediate and likely longer-term consequences of Brexit for the UK's competition law regime and includes the competition and subsidy control provisions of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement.

She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power - 1619 to 1969 proves that The Black Woman liberated herself.

This book tells the long-neglected story of women''s marital denaturalization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This book unveils the potential of utilizing EU Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) as an instrument of promoting the rule of law to third states.

Analysing the strategies people use to resist, accept and respond to laws that attempt to shape not just their behaviour, but also their identity, this book pursues a critical engagement with legal gender transition.

This book explores the relationship between sexuality and politics in Britain's recent political past, in the decade preceding the Covid-19 pandemic, and asks what sexual meanings and logics are embedded in the dominant political discourses and policies of this time.

This book is an interdisciplinary study that explains how just, reasonable multiculturalism is reconcilable with liberal democracy.

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

This book examines the use and impact of Australian Indigenous sentencing courts in response to Indigenous partner violence.