The Blackwell companion to law and society [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Austin Sarat

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (690 p.)
• Disciplina: 340/.115
• Soggetto topico: Law - Social aspects
• Altri autori: SaratAustin
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; 1 Vitality Amidst Fragmentation: On the Emergence of Postrealist Law and Society Scholarship; PART I PERSPECTIVES ON THE HISTORY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF LAWAND SOCIETY RESEARCH; 2 Law in Social Theory and Social Theory in the Study of Law; 3 Profession, Science, and Culture: An Emergent Canon of Law and Society Research; PART II THE CULTURAL LIFE OF LAW; 4 The Work of Rights and the Work Rights Do: A Critical Empirical Approach; 5 Consciousness and Ideology; 6 Law in Popular Culture; 7 Comparing Legal Cultures ; PART III INSTITUTIONS AND ACTORS8 The Police and Policing; 9 Professional Power: Lawyers and the Constitution of Professional Authority; 10 Courts and Judges; 11 Jurors and Juries; 12 Regulators and Regulatory Processes; 13 The Legal Lives of Private Organizations; PART IV DOMAINS OF POLICY; 14 Legal Regulation of Families in Changing Societies; 15 Culture, ''Kulturkampf,'' and Beyond: The Antidiscrimination Principle under the Jurisprudence of Backlash; 16 The Government of Risks; 17 Thinking About Criminal Justice: Sociolegal Expertise and the Modernization of American Criminal Justice ; 18 Rights in the Shadow of Class: Poverty, Welfare, and the Law19 Immigration; 20 Commodity Culture, Private Censorship, Branded Environments, and Global Trade Politics: Intellectual Property as a Topic of Law and Society Research; 21 Legal Categorizations and Religion: On Politics of Modernity, Practices, Faith, and Power ́; 22 The Role of Social Science in Legal Decisions; PART V HOW DOES LAW MATTER?; 23 Procedural Justice; 24 A Tale of Two Genres: On the Real and Ideal Links Between Law and Society and Critical Race Theory ; 25 The Constitution of Identity: Gender, Feminist Legal Theory, and the Law and Society Movement26 Sexuality in Law and Society Scholarship; 27 Law and Social Movements; 28 ''The Dog That Didn't Bark'': A Sociolegal Tale of Law, Democracy, and Elections; PART VI STUDYING GLOBALIZATION: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE; 29 Ethnographies of Law; 30 Colonial and Postcolonial Law; 31 Human Rights; 32 The Rule of Law and Economic Development in a Global Era; 33 Economic Globalization and the Law in the Twenty-first Century; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society is an authoritative study of the relationship between law and social interaction. Thirty-two original essays by an international group of expert scholars examine a wide range of critical questions. Authors represent various theoretical, methodological, and political commitments, creating the first truly global overview of the field. Examines the relationship between law and social interactions in thirty-three original essay by international experts in the field. Reflects the world-wide significance of North American law
• Titolo autorizzato: The Blackwell companion to law and society
• ISBN: 1-281-30965-6; 1-78034-114-8; 9786611309657; 1-4051-6663-0; 0-470-69365-7; 0-470-69291-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996208220703316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Blackwell companions to sociology.