Law & Society

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...

Customary law and traditional authorities continue to play highly complex and contested roles in contemporary African states. Reversing the common ...

Exploring the main developments and challenges for the right to family life in the context of European integration, this book examines the right to...

From the late 20th Century, a catalogue of high profile disasters and controversies has drawn attention to the changing relationship between corpor...

Taking a broad view of social theory, this book demonstrates the importance of this theory for the study of contemporary law. Through studies of th...

This title was first published in 2000. European Intellectual Property is a survey and discussion of the impact of the economic principles of the E...

This book was first published in 2003.Justice, Humanity and the New World Order offers a refreshing analysis of current jurisprudential concerns re...

Recent social and political developments in the EU have clearly shown the profound structural changes in European society and its politics. Reflect...

This book contributes to a feminist understanding of international human rights by examining restrictions on reproductive freedom through the lens ...

This book presents a compelling and highly sophisticated politico-legal history of a particular security operation that resulted in one of the most...

The European Neighbourhood Policy is a key part of the foreign policy of the European Union (EU), through which the EU works with its southern and ...

This title was first published in 2003. The Logic of Equality proposes a formal-logical method for examining the indeterminacy of legal discourse, ...

With contributions from some of the most prominent voices writing on gender, law and religion today, this book illuminates some of the conflicts at...

First published in 1998, this volume seeks to examine a range of policing techniques which are new, if not in their conception, then at least in th...

Billions of minutes a month are spent globally on social media. This raises not only serious legal issues, but also has a clear impact on everyday ...

First published in 1998, this volume aims to draw attention to an ongoing shift in the perception of law, which is now increasingly understood as a...

In Scandinavian countries immigration is a sensitive issue and legislators approach to the questions it has raised has varied over the years. What...

Taking a global viewpoint, this volume addresses issues arising from recent developments in the enduring and topical debates over Genetically Modif...

Legal pluralism and the experience of the state in the Caucasus are at the centre of this edited volume. This is a region affected by a multitude o...

Surrogacy presents particularly complex questions for human rights law and theory. This book provides a unique and insightful examination into the ...

Contemporary European societies are multi-ethnic and multi-cultural, certainly in terms of the diversity which has stemmed from the immigration of ...

Criminality has accompanied social life from the outset. It has appeared at every stage of the development of every community, regardless of organi...

General principles of law have made, and are likely further to make, a significant contribution to our understanding of the constituent elements of...

This book demonstrates the empirical gains and integrative potentials of social systems theory for the sociology of law. Against a backdrop of clas...

Dismembers and remembers the sensual and spiritual body of Lady Justice in a wholly novel interpretation of the optical allegory of Iustitia Prese...

The law is heavily implicated in creating, maintaining, and reproducing racialised hierarchies which bring about and preserve acute global disparit...

The law is heavily implicated in creating, maintaining, and reproducing racialised hierarchies which bring about and preserve acute global disparit...

This book aims to trace the development of a new conception of mobility citizenship in Europe historically, demographically and experientially. To ...

This book enriches the theory of individuation within Systemic Functional Linguistics, providing an interdisciplinary theoretical model for the stu...

A unique introduction to the constitutional arguments for and against the right to abortion In January 1973, the Supreme Courts opinion in Roe v. W...

This book seeks to distinguish empirically-based knowledge from widespread misconceptions in the fields of legal and forensic psychology. Across te...

How does sexual consent work? How do we know that another person really wants to have sex with us? Why do people sometimes give in to sex that they...

How does sexual consent work? How do we know that another person really wants to have sex with us? Why do people sometimes give in to sex that they...

Sexual rules and regulations are among societys oldest yet it is only in recent decades that this once-stigmatized field has become the focus of sc...

One of three volumes responding to the 7 October attack, Law and Society begins with a legal and a genocide studies critique of the claim that Isra...

The veiling of Muslim women has become a highly debated challenge in the Western world, ranging from religious freedom, integration, and gender equ...

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the United States, the Middle East, and North Africa, to discuss and critic...

Volume 21 of The Jewish Law Annual adds to the growing list of articles on Jewish law that have been published in volumes 1- 20 of this series, pro...

Essential Constitutional and Administrative Law for SQE1 explains key principles of the UK constitution, the organs of the state, judicial review, ...

On both a national and global stage we are witnessing a reckoning on issues of racial justice. This historical moment that continues to unfold in t...

Essential Constitutional and Administrative Law for SQE1 explains key principles of the UK constitution, the organs of the state, judicial review, ...

This is the first and leading comprehensive guide to security for costs in international arbitration, including commercial and investment arbitrati...