The handbook of law and society / edited by Austin Sarat and Patricia Ewick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sarat, Austin, editor.

Ewick, Patricia, editor.

Wiley InterScience (Online service)

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Wiley handbooks in criminology and criminal justice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Social aspects.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 459 pages).

Edition:

1.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Fifty years have passed since the establishment of this multi-disciplinary and rapidly expanding field, and since that time, the field has grown to encompass an array of disciplines, methods, perspectives and purposes. Bringing a timely synthesis to the field. The Handbook of Law and Society presents a comprehensive overview of key research findings, theoretical developments, and methodological controversies in the field of law and society. Contributions from 36 international scholars working across the disciplines of legal studies and social sciences explore the field's expanding frontiers. Using a global approach to law and society, chapters address a wide range of topics that include the widening gap between codified laws and "law in action", problems in the implementation of legal decisions, law's constitutive role in shaping society, the importance of law in everyday life, ways legal institutions both embrace and resist change, the impact of new media and technologies on law, intersections of law and identity, law's relationship to social consensus and conflict, and many more. Chapters provide in-depth coverage of each topic, including its evolution, current state, and directions for future research. Informed by the latest scholarship, The Handbook of Law and Society is an invaluable resource for myriad issues relating to the complex relationship between society and the legal process in the twenty-first century world. Book jacket.

Contents:

On the emerging maturity of law & society: an introduction / Patricia Ewick and Austin Sarat

What is law and society? : definitional disputes / Susan M. Sterrett

Charting the "classics" in law and society : the development of the field over the past half century / Calvin Morrill and Kelsey Mayo

Mapping a cultural studies of law / Naomi Mezey

Legal history / Kunal M. Parker

Ethnographic and comparative approaches / Susan Bilder Coutin and Veronique Fortin

Just a thought? : instantiations and constructions of procedural justice / Mary R. Rose

Lawyers and the legal profession / Ronit Dinovitzer and Bryant Garth

Courts and judges : the legitimacy imperative and the importance of appearances / Keith J. Bybee and Angela Narasimhan

Jurors and juries / Nancy S. Marder

Upside down and inside out : regulators and regulatory processes in contemporary perspective / Brownwen Morgan

Using public law to shaper private organizations / Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Nash

Police and policing / Jennifer Wood

Law and the family / Annie Bunting

Law & society perspectives on antidiscrimination law / Donna E. Young

Law & society perspectives on punishment and social control / Keramet Reiter

Welfare law / Vicki Lens

Immigration law and immigrants : "lived experiences" / LeisyJ. Abrego

The return of religion : the rise, decline, and possible resurrection of legal secularism / Nomi Maya Stolzenberg

Human rights / Heinz Klug

More than human legalities : advocating an "animal turn" in law and society / Irus Braverman

Law and disability / Katharina Heyer

The constitution of identity : law and race / Osagie K. Obasogie

The constitution of identity : new modalities of nationality, citizenship, belongingand being / Eve Darian-Smith

The past, present, and future of rights scholarship / Jeffrey Dudas, Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller, Michael McCann

Law and social movements : old debates and new directions / Sandra Levitsky

The rule of law and economic development : global scripts, vernacular translations / Ritu Birla

Law in colonialism : legacies and lineages / Renisa Mawani

Law and globalism : law without the state as law without violence / Julieta Lemaitre.

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. Hoboken, N.J. Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Handbook of law and society

ISBN:

9781118701447

1118701445

9781118701379

1118701372

9781118701430

1118701437

Publisher Number:

99964203421

EB00607369 Recorded Books

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.