The Law and Society Reader II / edited by Erik Larson and Patrick Schmidt |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (442 p.) |
Disciplina | 340/.115 |
Soggetto topico |
Sociologie juridique
Law - Social aspects - United States Sociological jurisprudence |
ISBN | 0-8147-8933-1 |
Classificazione | LAW000000LAW018000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The Law and Society Reader II -- Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Inequalities -- Introduction -- Does Law Benefit Those with the Most Resources -- 1. Do the “Haves” Still Come Out Ahead? -- 2. The Rule of Law and the Litigation Process: The Paradox of Losing by Winning -- 3. The Good Case: Decisions to Litigate at the World Trade Organization -- How Do Authority and Power Influence the Implementation of Law -- 4. Convictability and Discordant Locales: Reproducing Race, Class, and Gender Ideology in Prosecutorial Decisionmaking -- 5. The Reconstitution of Law in Local Settings: Agency Discretion, Ambiguity, and a Surplus of Law in the Policing of Hate Crime -- Can Rights-Based Litigation Address Inequalities? -- 6. Popular Constitutionalism’s Hard When You’re Not Very Popular: Why the ACLU Turned to Courts -- 7. Beyond Backlash: Assessing the Impact of Judicial Decisions on LGBT Rights -- Part II: Organizations and Law -- Introduction -- When Is Regulation Effective -- 8. Explaining Corporate Environmental Performance: How Does Regulation Matter? -- 9. The “Compliance” Trap: The Moral Message in Responsive Regulatory Enforcement -- 10. Labor Regulation, Corporate Governance, and Legal Origin: A Case of Institutional Complementarity? -- How Do Regulated Organizations Influence Legal Outcomes -- 11. Internal Dispute Resolution: The Transformation of Civil Rights in the Workplace -- 12. The Privatization of Public Legal Rights: How Manufacturers Construct the Meaning of Consumer Law -- Part III: Lawyers and Legal Work -- Introduction -- How Do Hierarchies Influence the Legal Profession -- 13. Do Rankings Matter? The Effects of U.S. News & World Report Rankings on the Admissions Process of Law Schools -- 14. Lawyer Satisfaction in the Process of Structuring Legal Careers -- What Forces Influence Lawyers’ Practices? -- 15. The Changing Character of Lawyers’ Work: Chicago in 1975 and 1995 -- 16. Lawyers, Mediation, and the Management of Divorce Practice -- Can Lawyers Address Inequalities through Service and Political Work? -- 17. The Impact of Legal Counsel on Outcomes for Poor Tenants in New York City’s Housing Court: Results of a Randomized Experiment -- 18. Cause Lawyering in Transnational Perspective: National Conflict and Human Rights in Israel/Palestine -- Part IV: Legal Confrontations—Disputing and Legal Consciousness -- Introduction -- 19. A New Social Constructionism for Sociolegal Studies -- Why Do People Turn to Law in Disputes -- 20. Litigating within Relationships: Disputes and Disturbance in the Regulatory Process -- 21. Pursuing Rights and Getting Justice on China’s Ethnic Frontier, 1949–1966 -- How Do People Use Ideas and Ideals in Legal Disputes? -- 22. Framing the Choice between Cash and the Courthouse: Experiences with the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund -- 23. Justice Excused: The Deployment of Law in Everyday Political Encounters -- How Do Ideas Influence Peoples’ Beliefs about Law? -- 24. Three Strikes and You Are Out, but Why? The Psychology of Public Support for Punishing Rule Breakers -- 25. Situating Legal Consciousness: Experiences and Attitudes of Ordinary Citizens about Law and Street Harassment -- How Does Consciousness Influence the Construction of Law? -- 26. Idle Rights: Employees’ Rights Consciousness and the Construction of Sexual Harassment Policies -- 27. Mobilizing the Law in China: “Informed Disenchantment” and the Development of Legal Consciousness -- Part V: Law as an Emergent Institution -- Introduction -- How Does Law Relate to Other Social Institutions? -- 28. Competing Institutions: Law, Medicine, and Family in Neonatal Intensive Care -- 29. Challenging Medicine: Law, Resistance, and the Cultural Politics of Childbirth -- How Do Legal Orders Change When Countries Change -- 30. Alternative Readings: The Status of the Status of Children Act in Antigua and Barbuda -- 31. Landscapes of the Law: Injury, Remedy, and Social Change in Thailand -- 32. Truth, Reconciliation, and the Creation of a Human Rights Culture in South Africa -- How Has Law Become Global? -- 33. Rights, Religion, and Community: Approaches to Violence against Women in the Context of Globalization -- 34. Merchants of Law as Moral Entrepreneurs: Constructing International Justice from the Competition for Transnational Business Disputes -- 35. National Politics as International Process: The Case of Anti–Female Genital Cutting Laws -- Part VI: Law as a Productive Institution -- Introduction -- How Does Law Influence Group Identity? -- 36. Through a Green Lens: The Construction of Customary Environmental Law and Community in Indonesia’s Maluku Islands -- 37. Unsuitable Suitors: Anti-Miscegenation Laws, Naturalization Laws, and the Construction of Asian Identities -- Can Groups Remake Identity through Law? -- 38. Think of the Hippopotamus: Rights Consciousness in the Fat Acceptance Movement -- 39. Legitimizing American Indian Sovereignty: Mobilizing the Constitutive Power of Law through Institutional Entrepreneurship -- How Does Law Operate as a System of Ideas? -- 40. Blue Jeans, Rape, and the “De-Constitutive” Power of Law -- 41. Do Blind People See Race? Social, Legal, and Theoretical Considerations -- Can Social Science Inform Progressive Change in Law -- 42. From Legal Realism to Law and Society: Reshaping Law for the Last Stages of the Social Activist State -- 43. What Counts as Knowledge? A Reflection on Race, Social Science, and the Law -- Bibliography -- About the Authors -- About the Editors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792149403321 |
New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2014] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Law and Society Reader II / edited by Erik Larson and Patrick Schmidt |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (442 p.) |
Disciplina | 340/.115 |
Soggetto topico |
Sociologie juridique
Law - Social aspects - United States Sociological jurisprudence |
ISBN | 0-8147-8933-1 |
Classificazione | LAW000000LAW018000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The Law and Society Reader II -- Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Inequalities -- Introduction -- Does Law Benefit Those with the Most Resources -- 1. Do the “Haves” Still Come Out Ahead? -- 2. The Rule of Law and the Litigation Process: The Paradox of Losing by Winning -- 3. The Good Case: Decisions to Litigate at the World Trade Organization -- How Do Authority and Power Influence the Implementation of Law -- 4. Convictability and Discordant Locales: Reproducing Race, Class, and Gender Ideology in Prosecutorial Decisionmaking -- 5. The Reconstitution of Law in Local Settings: Agency Discretion, Ambiguity, and a Surplus of Law in the Policing of Hate Crime -- Can Rights-Based Litigation Address Inequalities? -- 6. Popular Constitutionalism’s Hard When You’re Not Very Popular: Why the ACLU Turned to Courts -- 7. Beyond Backlash: Assessing the Impact of Judicial Decisions on LGBT Rights -- Part II: Organizations and Law -- Introduction -- When Is Regulation Effective -- 8. Explaining Corporate Environmental Performance: How Does Regulation Matter? -- 9. The “Compliance” Trap: The Moral Message in Responsive Regulatory Enforcement -- 10. Labor Regulation, Corporate Governance, and Legal Origin: A Case of Institutional Complementarity? -- How Do Regulated Organizations Influence Legal Outcomes -- 11. Internal Dispute Resolution: The Transformation of Civil Rights in the Workplace -- 12. The Privatization of Public Legal Rights: How Manufacturers Construct the Meaning of Consumer Law -- Part III: Lawyers and Legal Work -- Introduction -- How Do Hierarchies Influence the Legal Profession -- 13. Do Rankings Matter? The Effects of U.S. News & World Report Rankings on the Admissions Process of Law Schools -- 14. Lawyer Satisfaction in the Process of Structuring Legal Careers -- What Forces Influence Lawyers’ Practices? -- 15. The Changing Character of Lawyers’ Work: Chicago in 1975 and 1995 -- 16. Lawyers, Mediation, and the Management of Divorce Practice -- Can Lawyers Address Inequalities through Service and Political Work? -- 17. The Impact of Legal Counsel on Outcomes for Poor Tenants in New York City’s Housing Court: Results of a Randomized Experiment -- 18. Cause Lawyering in Transnational Perspective: National Conflict and Human Rights in Israel/Palestine -- Part IV: Legal Confrontations—Disputing and Legal Consciousness -- Introduction -- 19. A New Social Constructionism for Sociolegal Studies -- Why Do People Turn to Law in Disputes -- 20. Litigating within Relationships: Disputes and Disturbance in the Regulatory Process -- 21. Pursuing Rights and Getting Justice on China’s Ethnic Frontier, 1949–1966 -- How Do People Use Ideas and Ideals in Legal Disputes? -- 22. Framing the Choice between Cash and the Courthouse: Experiences with the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund -- 23. Justice Excused: The Deployment of Law in Everyday Political Encounters -- How Do Ideas Influence Peoples’ Beliefs about Law? -- 24. Three Strikes and You Are Out, but Why? The Psychology of Public Support for Punishing Rule Breakers -- 25. Situating Legal Consciousness: Experiences and Attitudes of Ordinary Citizens about Law and Street Harassment -- How Does Consciousness Influence the Construction of Law? -- 26. Idle Rights: Employees’ Rights Consciousness and the Construction of Sexual Harassment Policies -- 27. Mobilizing the Law in China: “Informed Disenchantment” and the Development of Legal Consciousness -- Part V: Law as an Emergent Institution -- Introduction -- How Does Law Relate to Other Social Institutions? -- 28. Competing Institutions: Law, Medicine, and Family in Neonatal Intensive Care -- 29. Challenging Medicine: Law, Resistance, and the Cultural Politics of Childbirth -- How Do Legal Orders Change When Countries Change -- 30. Alternative Readings: The Status of the Status of Children Act in Antigua and Barbuda -- 31. Landscapes of the Law: Injury, Remedy, and Social Change in Thailand -- 32. Truth, Reconciliation, and the Creation of a Human Rights Culture in South Africa -- How Has Law Become Global? -- 33. Rights, Religion, and Community: Approaches to Violence against Women in the Context of Globalization -- 34. Merchants of Law as Moral Entrepreneurs: Constructing International Justice from the Competition for Transnational Business Disputes -- 35. National Politics as International Process: The Case of Anti–Female Genital Cutting Laws -- Part VI: Law as a Productive Institution -- Introduction -- How Does Law Influence Group Identity? -- 36. Through a Green Lens: The Construction of Customary Environmental Law and Community in Indonesia’s Maluku Islands -- 37. Unsuitable Suitors: Anti-Miscegenation Laws, Naturalization Laws, and the Construction of Asian Identities -- Can Groups Remake Identity through Law? -- 38. Think of the Hippopotamus: Rights Consciousness in the Fat Acceptance Movement -- 39. Legitimizing American Indian Sovereignty: Mobilizing the Constitutive Power of Law through Institutional Entrepreneurship -- How Does Law Operate as a System of Ideas? -- 40. Blue Jeans, Rape, and the “De-Constitutive” Power of Law -- 41. Do Blind People See Race? Social, Legal, and Theoretical Considerations -- Can Social Science Inform Progressive Change in Law -- 42. From Legal Realism to Law and Society: Reshaping Law for the Last Stages of the Social Activist State -- 43. What Counts as Knowledge? A Reflection on Race, Social Science, and the Law -- Bibliography -- About the Authors -- About the Editors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827177103321 |
New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2014] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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