Law & Society

Offers insight into the complex relationship between religion and law in contemporary America Why religion? Why law? Why now? In recent years, th...

Revised and Expanded EditionWaitwhat's wrong with rights? It is usually assumed that trans and gender nonconforming people should follow the civil ...

The Third Edition of Psychological Problems, Social Issues and the Law offers updated research, legal cases, and new examples. The text uses histor...

This coursebook introduces students to feminist jurisprudence. The first three chapters develop the historical range of feminist theories. Subseque...

Tort law is the body of law governing negligence, intentional misconduct, and other wrongful acts for which civil actions can be brought. The conve...

Recent controversies surrounding the war on terror and American intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan have brought rule of law rhetoric to a fevered...

Law and society scholars challenge the common belief that law is simply a neutral tool by which society sets standards and resolves disputes. Decad...

In late October 2013, the Miami Dolphins player Jonathan Martin walked out on his team and checked into a mental health institution. The original s...

The essays in this volume illuminate a central paradox in the post-colonial West: race remains a potent index of social, economic and political ine...

In 1856, the US Supreme Court denied Dred Scott, now free of slavery, his Constitutional rights, solely because he was black. According to the Cour...

This book examines legal language as a language for special purposes, evaluating the functions and characteristics of legal language and the termin...

What remains anti-democratic in our criminal justice systems, and where does it come from? Geoffroy de Lagasnerie spent years sitting in on trials,...

Is the government too secret or not secret enough? Why is there simultaneously too much government secrecy and a seemingly endless procession of go...

There is no nation in which the teachers of law play a more prominent role than in the United States. In this unique volume Stephen Presser, a law ...

'Stunning . . . Built like a thriller, moving, wise and illuminated on every page with love' -Joanne Harris, author of ChocolatA parent's deeply mo...

Modern Employment Law covers all aspects relating to the employment relationship between employer and employee at both individual and collective le...

This accessible book introduces the key concepts and theoretical developments of queer criminology and explains what they mean for modern criminal ...

Intellectual property law has been interacting with nature for over two centuries. Despite this long history, this relationship has largely been ig...

Appellate judges wield enormous influence in the United States. Their decisions define the scope of legislative and executive power, adjudicate rel...

This book argues against the conventional wisdom that a U.S. right to health is out of reach. It shows that the necessary change is not extraordina...

How evangelical activism in England contributes to the secularizing forces it seeks to challengeOver the past two decades, a growing number of Chri...

Essentially a Mother argues that the law of pregnancy and motherhood has been overrun by sexist ideology. Courts have held that a pregnant womans n...