Law & Society

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...