Law and society, sociology of law

Millions of people all over the world have been displaced from their homes and property.

Millions of people all over the world have been displaced from their homes and property.

The period from the fifteenth century to the late eighteenth century was one of critical importance to British constitutionalism.

The use of third-party funding in the UK has been increasing and has moved into the mainstream as a funding option for clients involved in litigation, particularly following on from the positive endorsement of litigation funding by Lord Justice Jackson in his Review of Civil Litigation Costs where he said: 'I remain of the view that, in principle, third-party funding is beneficial and should be supported.

The use of third-party funding in the UK has been increasing and has moved into the mainstream as a funding option for clients involved in litigation, particularly following on from the positive endorsement of litigation funding by Lord Justice Jackson in his Review of Civil Litigation Costs where he said: 'I remain of the view that, in principle, third-party funding is beneficial and should be supported.

The adversary system of trial, the defining feature of the Anglo-American legal procedure, developed late in English legal history.

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.

This book assesses whether a new category of religious actors has been constructed within international law.

This book assesses whether a new category of religious actors has been constructed within international law.

Providing an introduction to law in modern society, D.

This new edition of Unjust Enrichment by the editor of the Clarendon Law Series, is a fully updated, clear and concise account of the law of unjust enrichment.

Each state in Europe has its own national laws which affect religion and these are increasingly the subject of political and academic debate.

Aboriginal title represents one of the most remarkable and controversial legal developments in the common law world of the late-twentieth century.

Menachem Mautner offers a compelling account of Israeli law as a site for the struggle over the shaping of Israeli culture.

Religious freedom is now widely accepted as fundamental to any liberal democracy.

Religious freedom is now widely accepted as fundamental to any liberal democracy.

A much-needed corrective on what privacy is, why it matters, and how we can protect in an age when so many believe that the concept is dead.

A much-needed corrective on what privacy is, why it matters, and how we can protect in an age when so many believe that the concept is dead.

The Anthropology of Islamic Law shows how hermeneutic theory and practice theory can be brought together to analyze cultural, legal, and religious traditions.

The Anthropology of Islamic Law shows how hermeneutic theory and practice theory can be brought together to analyze cultural, legal, and religious traditions.

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

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

What is the criminal law for?

Americans claim to care about character.

Americans claim to care about character.

American Juvenile Justice is a definitive volume for courses on the criminology and policy analysis of adolescence.

American Juvenile Justice is a definitive volume for courses on the criminology and policy analysis of adolescence.

Will Donald trump international law?

Will Donald trump international law?

Jill Elaine Hasday's Intimate Lies and the Law won the Scribes Book Award from the American Society of Legal Writers "e;for the best work of legal scholarship published during the previous year"e; and the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Family and Relationships.

Jill Elaine Hasday's Intimate Lies and the Law won the Scribes Book Award from the American Society of Legal Writers "e;for the best work of legal scholarship published during the previous year"e; and the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Family and Relationships.

The Oxford Handbook of Administrative Justice examines the wide range of scholarship exploring the administrative decisions made by public authorities that affect individual citizens and the mechanisms available for the provision of redress.

The Oxford Handbook of Administrative Justice examines the wide range of scholarship exploring the administrative decisions made by public authorities that affect individual citizens and the mechanisms available for the provision of redress.

An elected judiciary is virtually unique to the American experience and creates a paradox in a representative democracy.

An elected judiciary is virtually unique to the American experience and creates a paradox in a representative democracy.

In recent decades, the issue of gender-based violence has become heavily politicized in India.

In recent decades, the issue of gender-based violence has become heavily politicized in India.

We speak of being 'free' to speak our minds, free to go to college, free to move about; we can be cancer-free, debt-free, worry-free, or free from doubt.

In Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict, Cass R.

In Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict, Cass R.

Many people assume that what morally justifies private ownership of property is either individual freedom or social welfare, defined in terms of maximizing personal preference-satisfaction.

Many people assume that what morally justifies private ownership of property is either individual freedom or social welfare, defined in terms of maximizing personal preference-satisfaction.

Winner of the American Sociological Association's 2019 Asia and Asian American Section Book AwardWinner of the American Sociological Association's 2019 Political Sociology Section Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award Since the late 1970s, the three most salient minority groups in Japan - the politically dormant Ainu, the active but unsuccessful Koreans, and the former outcaste group of Burakumin - have all expanded their activism despite the unfavorable domestic political environment.

Winner of the American Sociological Association's 2019 Asia and Asian American Section Book AwardWinner of the American Sociological Association's 2019 Political Sociology Section Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award Since the late 1970s, the three most salient minority groups in Japan - the politically dormant Ainu, the active but unsuccessful Koreans, and the former outcaste group of Burakumin - have all expanded their activism despite the unfavorable domestic political environment.

Since its founding in 1910--the same year as another national organization devoted to the economic and social welfare aspects of race advancement, the National Urban League--the NAACP has been viewed as the vanguard national civil rights organization in American history.

Criminal disenfranchisement-the practice of restricting electoral rights following criminal conviction-is the only surviving electoral restriction of adult, mentally competent citizens in contemporary democracies.

Criminal disenfranchisement-the practice of restricting electoral rights following criminal conviction-is the only surviving electoral restriction of adult, mentally competent citizens in contemporary democracies.

Across the U.

Despite being one of the world's most vibrant democracies, police estimate between five and ten percent of the murders in South Africa result from vigilante violence.