The Handbook of Law and Society

Herausgegeben von Sarat, Austin; Ewick, Patricia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Provides illuminating insights into societal issues that pose ongoing real-world legal problems
Offers accessible, succinct overviews with in-depth coverage of each topic, including its evolution, current state, and directions for future research
Addresses a wide range of emergent topics in law and society and revisits perennial questions about law in a global world including 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
Features contributions from 38 international expert scholars working in diverse fields at the intersections of legal studies and social sciences
Unique in its contributions to this rapidly expanding and important new multi-disciplinary field of study

Produktdetails

• Wiley Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 165mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 885g
• ISBN-13: 9781118701461
• ISBN-10: 1118701461
• Artikelnr.: 42202161

Autorenporträt

Patricia Ewick is Professor of Sociology at Clark University. She is the co-author of The Common Place of Law (1998) and Social Science, Social Policy and Law (1999). She is also former co-editor of Studies in Law, Politics and Society and former Associate Editor of the Law & Society Review. Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College and Hugo L. Black Visiting Senior Scholar at the University of Alabama School of Law. He is the author or editor of more than 90 books, including Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty (2014); When the State Kills: Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture (2002); The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society (Wiley Blackwell, 2004); and Mercy on Trial: What It Means to Stop an Execution (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors viii On the Emerging Maturity of Law and Society: An
Introduction xiii Patricia Ewick and Austin Sarat Part I Setting the Stage
1 1 What is Law and Society? Definitional Disputes 3 Susan M. Sterett 2
Charting the "Classics" in Law and Society: The Development of the Field
over the Past Half?]Century 18 Calvin Morrill and Kelsey Mayo Part II
Approaches to the Study of Law as a Social Phenomenon 37 3 Mapping a
Cultural Studies of Law 39 Naomi Mezey 4 Approaches to the Study of Law as
a Social Phenomenon: Legal History 56 Kunal M. Parker 5 Legal Ethnographies
and Ethnographic Law 71 Susan Bibler Coutin and Veronique Fortin 6 Just a
Thought? Instantiations and Constructions of Procedural Justice 85 Mary R.
Rose Part III Institutional Processes and Actors 103 7 Lawyers and the
Legal Profession 105 Ronit Dinovitzer and Bryant Garth 8 Courts and Judges:
The Legitimacy Imperative and the Importance of Appearances 118 Keith J.
Bybee and Angela G. Narasimhan 9 Jurors and Juries 134 Nancy S. Marder 10
Upside Down and Inside Out: Regulators and Regulatory Processes in
Contemporary Perspective 150 Bronwen Morgan 11 Using Public Law to Shape
Private Organizations 168 Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Nash 12 Police and
Policing 183 Jennifer D. Wood Part IV Domains of Legal Policy 197 13
Domains of Policy: Law and Society Research on the Family 199 Annie Bunting
14 Domains of Policy: Law and Society Perspectives on Antidiscrimination
Law 212 Donna E. Young 15 Domains of Policy: Law and Society Perspectives
on Punishment and Social Control 228 Keramet Reiter 16 Welfare Law 244
Vicki Lens 17 Immigration Law and Immigrants' Lived Experiences 258 Leisy
J. Abrego 18 The Return of Religion: The Rise, Decline, and Possible
Resurrection of Legal Secularism 274 Nomi Maya Stolzenberg 19 Human Rights
291 Heinz Klug 20 More?]than?]Human Legalities: Advocating an "Animal Turn"
in Law and Society 307 Irus Braverman 21 Law and Disability 322 Katharina
Heyer Part V How Does Law Matter? 337 22 The Constitution of Identity: Law
and Race 339 Osagie K. Obasogie 23 The Constitution of Identity: New
Modalities of Nationality, Citizenship, Belonging and Being 351 Eve
Darian?]Smith 24 The Past, Present, and Future of Rights Scholarship 367
Jeffrey R. Dudas, Jonathan Goldberg?]Hiller and Michael W. McCann 25 Law
and Social Movements: Old Debates and New Directions 382 Sandra R. Levitsky
26 The Rule of Law and Economic Development: Global Scripts, Vernacular
Translations 399 Ritu Birla 27 Law and Colonialism: Legacies and Lineages
417 Renisa Mawani 28 Law and Globalism: Law without the State as Law
without Violence 433 Julieta Lemaitre Index 446