Law & Society

'Uncle Tom' is the most piercing epithet blacks can hurl at one another. It marks targets as race traitors, and that painful stain is often permane...

The contributors to this volume consider whether it is possible to establish carefully tailored hate speech policies that are cognizant of the vary...

Bringing a timely synthesis to the field, The Handbook of Law and Society presents a comprehensive overview of key research findings, theoretical d...

Everyday Justice clearly demonstrates the value of revitalizing the category of justice in ethnographic work by revealing how both justice and inju...

Celia Wells always felt like an outsider. Her unconventional early life was shaped by her Communist Party parents, she grew up as `town' not `gown'...

From the Colonial to the Contemporary explores the representation of law, images and justice in the first three colonial high courts of India at Ca...

This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society...

Everyday Law in Russia challenges the prevailing common wisdom that Russians cannot rely on their law and that Russian courts are hopelessly politi...

By reading two bodies of literature not normally read together the outlaw literature and espionage literature Conor McCarthy shows how these genr...

Singing the Law is about the legal lives and afterlives of oral cultures in East Africa, particularly as they appear within the pages of written li...

Every day, new warnings emerge about artificial intelligence rebelling against us. All the while, a more immediate dilemma flies under the radar. H...

This book is an interdisciplinary guide to the religion clauses of the First Amendment with a focus on its philosophical foundations, historical de...

Ronald Dworkin (1931-2013), an American legal philosopher, jurist, and scholar, was a stalwart advocate of human rights and dignity who developed a...

The inspiration behind the hit podcast THE 100 TYPES OF HUMAN with DEXTER DIAS and BBC 5 Live host NIHAL ARTHANAYAKE'This book is the one. Think Sa...

Connecting with Law Fourth Edition introduces students to the foundations of law in a thought provoking way, challenging them to think critically, ...

The desperate manhunt to bring down Australia's most notorious outlaw When Ned Kelly and his band of young tearaways ambushed and killed three brav...

The natural law tradition is rooted in the understanding that society has a place within the universe as a whole. Just as the universe has a natura...

Do judges use the power of the state for the good of the nation? Or do they create new laws in line with their personal views? When newspapers rep...

Petticoat Pioneers offers a fascinating insight into the world of female inequality in the Eighteenth Century. It looks at the reasons for that ine...

FALSE ALLEGATIONS, ASSERTIONS, SPITE, LIES, UN-SIGNED LETTERS, INNUENDOS, JEALOUSY... THE MORIARTY TRIBUNAL - The final verdict and analysis. Wes...

Challenging the usual introductions to the study of law, A Critical Introduction to Law argues that law is inherently political and reflects the in...

Traditional Jewish family law has persevered for hundreds of years and rules covering marriage, the raising of children, and divorce are well estab...

A compelling study of a subtle and insidious form of racial inequality in American law and culture. Why does racial equality continue to elude Afri...

Transactional lawyers are needed, en masse, to aid in an epic reinvention of our economic system. This reinvention is referred to by many names-the...