Law & Society

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in Contemporary Politics, Law, and Social Movements (OEPoL) provides a comprehensive source of infor...

Law and Justice in Australia takes a historical, critical and contextual approach to law and justice and offers students a mix of stories, cases, a...

Corruption is one of the biggest global issues, ahead of extreme poverty, unemployment, the rising cost of food and energy, climate change, and ter...

Now in its second edition, this important book offers one of the first systematic exploration of the entire field of law and anthropology. The book...

The first Poor Law was enacted in 1601, and this system of social security, which was supposed to ensure that those who could not work had food, dr...

Disorder and instability are matters of continuing public concern. Terrorism, as a threat to global order, has been added to preoccupations with...

''Brenda Hale''s story is extraordinary. She has been a pioneer... Spider woman and agent of change'' Harriet HarmanLady Hale is an inspirational f...

The work considers the international and European obligations of the UK in the realm of challenging the far-right and assesses the extent to which ...

Starting in the latter part of the 20th century, the law of sexual offenses, especially in the West, began to reflect a striking divergence. On the...

Every day, Internet users interact with technologies designed to undermine their privacy. Social media apps, surveillance technologies, and the Int...

2019 Choice Outstanding Academic title I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies Why is the term shari?a-the mention of whi...

Will Donald trump international law? Since Trump's Administration took office, this question has haunted almost every issue area of international l...

Written by one of Canada's most prominent socio-legal scholars, Law and Society Redefined is a comprehensive introduction to law and society. Drawi...

A leading criminologist draws on over 30 years experience working with sex offenders to propose a new way of understanding sexual crimesThe prevale...

In recent years there has been a significant growth in interest of the so-called law in context extending legal studies beyond black letter law. Th...

Ask any Canadian what Métis means, and they will likely say mixed race. Canadians consider Métis mixed in ways that other Indigenous people are not...

New Jerseys legal system was plagued with injustices from the time the system was established through the mid-twentieth century. In Battleground Ne...

The sharing economy challenges contemporary property law. Does the rise of access render our conception of property obsolete? What are the normativ...

Measuring Justice explores the ways in which South African court and managerial prosecutors deal with the quantification of social phenomena - such...

Examines representations of the law in colonial and postcolonial fiction from and about Nigeria Imagined States examines representations of the law...

Cultural rights promote cultural and scientific creativity. Transformative and empowering, they also enable the pursuit of knowledge and understand...

Malcolm Feeley, one of the founding giants of the law and society field, is also one of its most exciting, diverse, and contemporary scholars. His ...

Countries emerging from violent conflict face difficult challenges about what the role of media should be in political transitions, particularly wh...

Natural law has long been considered the traditional source of Roman Catholic canon law. However, new scholarship is critical of this approach as i...

A leading economist offers a radically new approach to the economic analysis of the lawIn The Republic of Beliefs, Kaushik Basu, one of the world's...

Ask any Canadian what Métis means, and they will likely say mixed race. Canadians consider Métis mixed in ways that other indigenous people are not...

A big cat overthrows the Indian state and establishes a reign of terror over the residents of a Himalayan town. A welfare legislation aimed at prov...

Crime scene investigation-or CSI-has captured the modern imagination. On television screens and in newspapers, we follow the exploits of forensic o...

The Lawyer as Leader: How to Plant People and Grow Justice is an inspiring roadmap designed to help lawyers become effective agents for social chan...