Law and society, sociology of law

Whenever the topic of large jails and public hospitals in urban America is raised, a single idea comes to mind.

A trenchant account of an unacknowledged driver of inequality and wage stagnation in America: the failure of antitrust law to prevent the consolidation of employers, who use their market power to suppress wages.

A trenchant account of an unacknowledged driver of inequality and wage stagnation in America: the failure of antitrust law to prevent the consolidation of employers, who use their market power to suppress wages.

Starting in the latter part of the 20th century, the law of sexual offenses, especially in the West, began to reflect a striking divergence.

Starting in the latter part of the 20th century, the law of sexual offenses, especially in the West, began to reflect a striking divergence.

Should religious people who conscientiously object to facilitating same-sex weddings, and who therefore decline to provide cakes, photography, or other services, be exempted from antidiscrimination laws?

Should religious people who conscientiously object to facilitating same-sex weddings, and who therefore decline to provide cakes, photography, or other services, be exempted from antidiscrimination laws?

Although there is no international government, and no global police agency enforces the rules, nations obey international law.

Each year more than 2 million Americans divorced, and most of them use a lawyer.

From the 1930s to the early 1960s civil rights law was made primarily through constitutional litigation.

In the last thirty years, the number of lawyers in the United States and Canada has more than tripled, and today as many women as men are entering legal practice.

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.

Men and women have always bargained for sex.

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

In this linguistic study of law school education, Mertz shows how law professors employ the Socratic method between teacher and student, forcing the student to shift away from moral and emotional terms in thinking about conflict, toward frameworks of legal authority instead.

Proof is the property of a disputed fact being established inferentially from an extant fact.

This volume is the fully revised and updated version of the first comprehensive commentary on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol.

This volume is the fully revised and updated version of the first comprehensive commentary on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol.

Focusing on India between the early nineteenth century and the First World War, Colonial Terror explores the centrality of the torture of Indian bodies to the law-preserving violence of colonial rule and some of the ways in which extraordinary violence was embedded in the ordinary operation of colonial states.

This volume introduces 'postgenocide' as a novel approach to study genocide and its effects after mass killing has ended.

In 2009 and 2010, the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights underwent significant reforms to their respective judicial appointments processes.

In 2009 and 2010, the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights underwent significant reforms to their respective judicial appointments processes.

Freedom of Expression as Self-Restraint provides a novel justificatory foundation for the principle of freedom of expression.

Freedom of Expression as Self-Restraint provides a novel justificatory foundation for the principle of freedom of expression.

The performance of international courts has traditionally been judged against criteria of compliance and effectiveness.

The performance of international courts has traditionally been judged against criteria of compliance and effectiveness.

International criminal justice relies on messages, speech acts, and performative practices in order to convey social meaning.

International criminal justice relies on messages, speech acts, and performative practices in order to convey social meaning.

Civil Procedure Rules at 20 is a collection of presentations and papers to mark the 20th anniversary of the CPR coming into force, many of which were delivered orally at the CPR at 20 Conference at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, at Mansfield College, Oxford, in 2019.

Civil Procedure Rules at 20 is a collection of presentations and papers to mark the 20th anniversary of the CPR coming into force, many of which were delivered orally at the CPR at 20 Conference at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, at Mansfield College, Oxford, in 2019.

During the 1980s, thousands of Chadian citizens were detained, tortured, and raped by then-President Hissene Habre's security forces.

During the 1980s, thousands of Chadian citizens were detained, tortured, and raped by then-President Hissene Habre's security forces.

The modern era of competition law in New Zealand began with the Commerce Act 1986.

The modern era of competition law in New Zealand began with the Commerce Act 1986.

What defines the social practices we currently call norms?

What defines the social practices we currently call norms?

Few contemporary scholars have done more in their work to develop the idea of responsibility than Nicola Lacey.

This book examines the concept of intersectional discrimination and why it has been difficult for jurisdictions around the world to redress it in discrimination law.

This book examines the concept of intersectional discrimination and why it has been difficult for jurisdictions around the world to redress it in discrimination law.

For some time, the word 'crisis' has been dominating international political discourse.

For some time, the word 'crisis' has been dominating international political discourse.

Respectable Citizens - Shady Practices seeks to explore a previously neglected aspect of crime in modern society - namely those crimes that are committed by otherwise 'respectable' citizens in the market arena.

Respectable Citizens - Shady Practices seeks to explore a previously neglected aspect of crime in modern society - namely those crimes that are committed by otherwise 'respectable' citizens in the market arena.

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

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

This book primarily provides assistance to litigators who find themselves acting for or against firms in contentious regulatory matters.

This book primarily provides assistance to litigators who find themselves acting for or against firms in contentious regulatory matters.

Dieter Grimm is one of the foremost scholars of constitutional law, constitutional theory, and European law in Germany and worldwide.

Dieter Grimm is one of the foremost scholars of constitutional law, constitutional theory, and European law in Germany and worldwide.

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