Law and society, sociology of law

How do lawyers, judges and jurors read novels?

This book analyses the problems caused by relying on tort law mechanisms to protect tangible property interests in the common law and suggests a new way of thinking to rectify these issues.

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

A monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's rulings on race, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights spells out in compelling detail the political and social context within which the Supreme Court Justices operate and the consequences of their decisions for American race relations.

This volume presents new research in artificial intelligence (AI) and Law with special reference to criminal justice.

Providing interdisciplinary and empirically grounded insights into the issues surrounding gender and migration into and within Europe, this work presents a comprehensive and critical overview of the historical, legal, policy and cultural framework underpinning different types of European migration.

What are the different institutional, intellectual and biographical trajectories in socio-legal studies, and how can they be compared?

The book explores the rise of civil divorce in Victorian England, the subsequent operation of a fault system of divorce based solely on the ground of adultery, and the eventual piecemeal repeal of the Victorian-era divorce law during the Interwar years.

For more than a decade, American lawyers have bewailed the ethical crisis in their profession, wringing their hands about its bad image.

El libro que el lector tiene entre sus manos es un estudio riguroso y pormenorizado de la reciente jurisprudencia del Tribunal Supremo que se ha dictado en relación con los contratos bancarios y de inversión.

This book will describe the development of European Community consumer law and seek to determine to what extent action by the European Community has promoted the interest of consumer protection.

Gender Justice and the Law presents a collection of essays that examines how gender, as a category of identity, must continually be understood in relation to how structures of inequality define and shape its meaning.

Using evidence and arguments from neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Morris B.

This edited collection introduces and defines the concept of "e;comparative restorative justice"e;, putting it in the context of power relations and inequality.

This book brings together politics, law, financial services regulation, economics and housing policy in the analysis of mortgage lending and macroprudential policy in the UK and US.

Nuestro futuro presidente debe comprender la energía: qué es, qué opciones enfrenta hoy la humanidad para conseguirla, cuál es la eficiencia de cada una, cuáles son las consecuencias ambientales de esas alternativas, qué industrias las explotan.

The law-based, political institutions in many democratic societies are being challenged by fast-growing populist movements, parties, and leaders.

Inequality and unfairness still stalk Scotland after more than twenty years of devolution.

Familiar modes of problem solving may be efficient, but they often prevent us from discovering innovative solutions to more complex problems.

Desde la incorporación de la Prisión Permanente Revisable en España las críticas por parte de la doctrina se han seguido sin interrupción.

Familiar modes of problem solving may be efficient, but they often prevent us from discovering innovative solutions to more complex problems.

La monografía que el lector tiene en sus manos ofrece una exposición clara, sistemática y crítica de la adhesión al recurso de apelación civil.

La libertad de expresión y de opinión es un derecho clave para poder ejercer el derecho a proteger y promover los derechos humanos que está protegido por la Declaración sobre los defensores de los derechos humanos, adoptada en 1998 por las Naciones Unidas.

If you can t change a system from the inside, you have no choice but to try and change it from the outside.

Through the early twentieth century, the British Government locked away over 50,000 innocent people.

In these hybrid poems, Jessica Q.

La llamada violencia de genero, que se traduce en alguna especie de maltrato, fisico y/o psiquico contra la mujer, puede llegar a realizarse de una manera tan sutil que dificulta su prueba ante los tribunales y cuenta solamente con el testimonio de la propia victima.

The subprime crisis shook the American economy to its core.

Confronting the Death Penalty: How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases probes how jurors make the ultimate decision about whether another human being should live or die.

Americans claim to care about character.

What is the future of civil rights?

¿Es la gestación subrogada ética y moralmente reprobable en todo caso o hay situaciones en las que debe ser permitida?

El Atlas Laboral de las Personas con Discapacidad en España presenta una radiografía sobre el grado de inserción laboral, las condiciones laborales y las barreras para el acceso al empleo de las personas con discapacidad.

Es legítimo el Derecho penal del riesgo?

En la segunda década del siglo XXI la duda, la incertidumbre y la desorientación ante el futuro, recorren las sociedades occidentales.

Este libro es el producto de la observacion y del analisis juridico penal y criminologico de lo que consideramos el fenomeno judicial mas importante de nuestra epoca: la investigacion y juzgamiento de las violaciones masivas a los derechos humanos cometidas durante la ultima dictadura militar.

En este trabajo se aborda exhaustivamente toda la problemática de la criminología de la corrupción urbanística y la prevaricación funcionarial, centrándonos en particular en la Administración más cercana a los ciudadanos como son los Ayuntamientos, pues de todas las Administraciones Públicas que obtienen ingresos vinculados a la actividad inmobiliaria, es en la Administración Local donde mayor incidencia tienen, toda vez que de los cinco impuestos que existen en el Texto Refundido de la Ley 2/2004 Reguladora de las Haciendas Locales, tres de esos tributos tienen su fuente en el urbanismo.

La amenaza del terrorismo, probablemente, es uno de los grandes problemas que afronta el siglo XXI, y no está supeditado a un territorio específico sino, por el contrario es un mal que se extiende por varios continentes.

'The Constitution [of India] has within it the ability to produce social catharsis.

Esta obra aborda la emergencia de un problema nacido al calor de la revolución que llevó a la independencia: ¿qué es derecho?

Since 2004, when the fraud at Ranbaxy, the largest Indian pharmaceutical company at the time first came to light, the Indian pharmaceutical industry and clinical research organizations have been rocked by a series of scandals after investigations by American and European drug regulators.

'As enjoyable as it is thought-provoking' Jared DiamondBy the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, based on decades of research, this powerful new big-picture framework explains how some countries develop towards and provide liberty while others fall to despotism, anarchy or asphyxiating norms - and explains how liberty can thrive despite new threats.

This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them.

This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them.

The press called Martin's actions a "e;crime spree.

Our ability to make choices is fundamental to our sense of ourselves as human beings, and essential to the political values of freedom-protecting nations.

Same-sex marriage has become one of the most volatile issues in American politics.