Law & Society

FROM THE WINNERS OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICSOne of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2019Shortlisted ...

A revealing look at the changing role of churches in the decades after the American Revolution.Most Americans today would not think of their local ...

Introduces an expansive vision of the family and a brilliant legal arrangement that will protect the lives of millions of adults.   Today, about ha...

Introduces an expansive vision of the family and a brilliant legal arrangement that will protect the lives of millions of adults.   Today, about ha...

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Should a machine that emits harmful levels of pollution receive patent protection? Should pornography receive copyright protection? This book argue...

Part of the acclaimed Higher Ed Leadership Essentials series, this book surveys academic freedom's history and its application in today's universit...

In recent years, the fundamental rights of LGBTIQ+ persons have received increased legal attention at the international and national level. Conside...

A fast-growing legal system and economy in medieval and early modern Rome saw a rapid increase in the need for written documents. Brokers of Publi...

Despite her famous pseudonym, Jane Roe, no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (19472017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fra...

Guido Calabresi is an extraordinary person. His family, of Jewish heritage, occupied a secure and centuries-old position near the top of Italian so...

Malcolm Feeleys work is well-known to scholars around the world and has influenced two generations of criminologists and legal scholars. He has wri...

What constitutes a sovereign state in the international legal sphere? This question has been central to international law for centuries. Sovereignt...

Critical legal studies is the most important development in progressive thinking about law of the past half century. It has inspired the practice o...

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

At the zone of intersection between imagery, law, and the economy, the defamatory image is charged with a particularly explosive significance. Whil...

The lives of suffragist-communist-socialite Anita Whitney and Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis converged in the first quarter of the twentieth ...

The rapid expansion of the halal industry and its markets has occurred not only in the heavily Islamic regions of Southeast Asia and the Middle Eas...

Among the many important tools feminist legal theorists have given scholars is that of anti-essentialism: all women are not created equal, and priv...

Explores experiences with disability and aging for immigrant survivors of domestic violence across the life course Across the United States, one in...

Explores experiences with disability and aging for immigrant survivors of domestic violence across the life course Across the United States, one in...

The Nordic states were among the first in the world to enact general gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low threshold enforcement me...

In the world neoliberalism has made, the pervasiveness of injustice and the scale of inequality can be so overwhelming that meaningful resistance s...