The intersection of rights and regulation [[electronic resource] ] : new directions in sociolegal scholarship / / edited by Bronwen Morgan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784720903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Aldershot, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2007
• ISBN: 1-351-14626-2; 1-281-20874-4; 9786611208745; 0-7546-8828-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 p.)
• Collana: Markets and the law
• Altri autori (Persone): MorganBronwen
• Disciplina: 340/.115
• Soggetti: Civil rights - Social aspects; Sociological jurisprudence
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-216) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 The Intersection of Rights and Regulation: New Directions in Sociolegal Scholarship; PART 1: RIGHTS AND REGULATION: CONTRASTING FORMS AND LOGICS?; 2 Form and Substance in Labour Market Policies; 3 Lawyers Using Rights Discourse in an Internet Community: Challenging and Redefining Gender Discrimination in the Legal Practice; 4 Rights as the Seeds of Regulation in UK Land-Use Planning; PART 2: COMPLEMENTARITIES BETWEEN RIGHTS AND REGULATION; 5 Taxing Prejudice: Non-Constitutional Approaches to the Problem of Minority Rights6 Doing Good Business or Just Doing Good: Competing Human Rights Frameworks at the World Bank; 7 Regulatory Rights: Emergent Indigenous Peoples' Rights as a Locus of Global Regulation; PART 3: POLITICS AND IDEOLOGIES: HYBRID DIALECTICS OF RIGHTS AND REGULATION; 8 Dancing in New York City: The Cabaret Law, Alternative Cultures and Neoliberal Urbanism; 9 Rights and Regulation in Bush's America; or, How the New Right Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Equal Rights; 10 Rights as Regulation: The Integration of Development and Human ; RightsBibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: This book demonstrates that a simple division between rights and regulation is no longer tenable. Interdisciplinary with fresh perspectives on socio-legal scholarship, the book shows that different combinations of rights and regulatory claims serve as barometers of current changes in political economy.