Theoretical and Empirical Studies of Rights
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Alternative Normative Systems
Austin Sarat
Autonomy Paradigm
Batterer Intervention Program
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Civil Libertarians
Complaint Handlers
Discrimination Complaints
dispute resolution processes
Droits De
Duluth Model
Dworkin Ronald
empirical analysis of rights claiming
empirical legal studies
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German Disability
Government Largess
Habermas JRgen
Hollow Hope
Indeterminacy Critique
Injurious Experience
institutional constraints law
John Locke
legal consciousness
Legal Mobilization
Lexical Priority
Martha Minow
Master Rule
Native Hawaiian
Offensive Public Speech
Public Interest State
Richard L. Abel
rights mobilisation
Rosenberg's Analysis
Rosenberg’s Analysis
Set S1
Significant Social Reform
social movement theory
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Waldron* Jeremy
William L.F. Felstiner
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- ISBN 9780754625810
- Weight: 1224g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 21 Aug 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This important volume examines rights from an inter-disciplinary law and society perspective, beginning with the premise that the most basic functions of rights requires the empirical study of rights consciousness and claiming behavior. As such the volume includes articles and essays by political scientists, historians, lawyers, and sociologists which place the study of ordinary citizens' understandings of rights, and what actions they take based on that knowledge, at the forefront of an empirical research agenda. This has important implications for law's capacity to achieve social change and can lead to better understanding of how rights can and should operate in a social and legal system. The volume is organized around the social movements and political processes which give rise to rights, the processes by which people come to understand they enjoy a right, the decision to invoke the right either formally or informally, and the organizational and institutional constraints and opportunities for exercising rights.
Professor Laura Beth Nielsen is a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University both in the USA. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley’s Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program (Ph.D. 1999) and Boalt Hall School of Law (J.D. 1996). Her primary field is the sociology of law, with particular interest the relationship between law and inequalities of race, gender, and class. She is author or editor of 4 books including The New Civil Rights Research: A Constitutive Approach (co-edited with Ben Fleury-Steiner, Ashgate 2006).
