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Blackwell Pub.
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English
Pages
666

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2004, Blackwell Pub.
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Table of Contents

Vitality amidst fragmentation: on the emergence of post-realist law and society scholarship / Austin Sarat
pt. I. Perspectives on the history and significance of law and society research. Law in social theory, and social theory in the study of law / Roger Cotterrell ; Profession, science, and culture: an emergent canon of law and society research / Carroll Seron and Susan S. Silbey
pt. II. The cultural life of law. The work of rights and the work rights do: a critical empirical approach / Laura Beth Nielsen ; Consciousness and ideology / Patricia Ewick ; Law in popular culture / Richard K. Sherwin ; Comparing legal cultures / David Nelken
pt. III. Institutions and actors. The police and policing / Jeannine Bell ; Professional power: lawyers and the constitution of professional authority / Tanina Rostain ; Courts and judges / Lee Epstein and Jack Knight ; Jurors and juries / Valerie P. Hans and Neil Vidmar ; Regulators and regulatory processes / Robert A. Kagan ; The legal lives of private organizations / Lauren B. Edelman
pt. IV. Domains of policy. Legal regulation of families in changing societies / Susan B. Boyd ; Culture, "kulturkampf" and beyond: the antidiscrimination principle under the jurisprudence of backlash / Francisco Valdes ; The government of risk / Pat O'Malley ; Thinking about criminal justice: socio-legal expertise and the modernization of American criminal justice / Jonathan Simon ; Rights in the shadow of class: poverty, welfare, and the law / Frank Munger ; Immigration / Susan Sterett ; Commodity culture, private censorship, branded environments, and global trade politics: intellectual property as a topic of law and society research / Rosemary J. Coombe ; Legal categorizations and religion: on politics of modernity, practices, faith, and power / Gad Barzilai ; The role of social science in legal decisions / Jonathan Yovel and Elizabeth Mertz
pt. V. How does law matter? Procedural justice / Tom R. Tyler ; A tale of two genres: on the real and ideal links between law & society and critical race theory / Laura Gomez ; The constitution of identity: gender, feminist legal theory, and the law and society movement / Nicola Lacey ; Sexuality in law and society scholarship / Leslie J. Moran ; Law and social movements / Michael McCann ; "The dog that didn't bark:" a sociolegal tale of law, democracy, and elections / Stuart A. Scheingold
pt. VI. Studying globalization: past, present, future. Ethnographies of law / Eve Darian-Smith ; Colonial and post-colonial law / Sally Engle Merry ; Human rights / Lisa Hajjar ; The rule of law and economic development in a global era / Kathryn Hendley ; Economic globalization and the law in the 21st century / Francis Snyder.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Malden, MA
Series
Blackwell companions to sociology, Blackwell companions to sociology

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Dewey Decimal Class
340/.115
Library of Congress
K370 .B554 2004eb, K370.B554 2004

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Format
[electronic resource] /
Pagination
1 online resource (xxi, 666 p.)
Number of pages
666

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Open Library
OL27021731M
ISBN 10
047069291X
ISBN 13
9780470692912
OCLC/WorldCat
244083021

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OL19831704W

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