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Diseases of the Will
Alcohol and the Dilemmas of Freedom
Inbunden, 1998
1588 kr
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While associated with comfort and pleasure, alcohol has been and is a 'problem' substance, both for medical and political authorities and for many drinkers. In this broad-ranging and innovative historical-sociological investigation, Valverde explores the ways in which both authorities and …
Rule of Law Intermediaries
Brokering Influence in Myanmar
Häftad, 2023
500 kr
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Scholars puzzle over the conditions that make rule of law development in authoritarian settings successful. In this significant contribution, focusing on the decade of Myanmar's political transformation, Kristina Simion explores rule of law assistance through the practice and experience of …
Militarization and Violence against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East
A Palestinian Case-Study
Häftad, 2009
374 kr
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This book examines and discusses the ordeals that women face as violence is perpetrated against them in politically conflicted and militarized areas. In conflict zones, every act is affected by, dependent on and mobilised by militaristic values. The militarization of both the private and public …
From Manners to Rules
Advocating for Legalism in South Korea and Japan
Häftad, 2025
428 kr
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From Manners to Rules traces the emergence of legalistic governance in South Korea and Japan. While these countries were previously known for governance characterized by bureaucratic discretion and vague laws, activists and lawyers are pushing for a more legalistic regulatory style. Legalism …
The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa
Legitimizing the Post-Apartheid State
Av Richard A. Wilson, Chris Arup
Häftad, 2001
643 kr
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The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was set up to deal with the human rights violations of apartheid during the years 1960-1994. However, as Wilson shows, the TRC's restorative justice approach to healing the nation did not always serve the needs of communities at a local …
Modernism and the Grounds of Law
Häftad, 2001
796 kr
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Existing approaches to the relation of law and society have for a long time seen law as either autonomous or grounded in society. Drawing on untapped resources in social theory, Fitzpatrick finds law pivotally placed in and beyond modernity. Being itself of the modern, law takes impetus and …
A Sociology of Constitutions
Constitutions and State Legitimacy in Historical-Sociological Perspective
Inbunden, 2011
2067 kr
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Using a methodology that both analyzes particular constitutional texts and theories and reconstructs their historical evolution, Chris Thornhill examines the social role and legitimating status of constitutions from the first quasi-constitutional documents of medieval Europe, through the classical …
Law and Society in Vietnam
The Transition from Socialism in Comparative Perspective
Av Mark Sidel
Häftad, 2010
568 kr
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This book is a unique analysis of the struggle to build a rule of law in one of the world's most dynamic and vibrant nations - a socialist state that is seeking to build a market economy while struggling to pursue an ethos of social equality and opportunity. It addresses constitutional change, the …
The Gacaca Courts, Post-Genocide Justice and Reconciliation in Rwanda
Justice without Lawyers
Av Phil Clark
Inbunden, 2010
1183 kr
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Since 2001, the Gacaca community courts have been the centrepiece of Rwanda's justice and reconciliation programme. Nearly every adult Rwandan has participated in the trials, principally by providing eyewitness testimony concerning genocide crimes. Lawyers are banned from any official involvement, …
Law, Society, and History
Themes in the Legal Sociology and Legal History of Lawrence M. Friedman
Av Robert W. Gordon, Morton J. Horwitz
Inbunden, 2011
1029 kr
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This book assembles essays on legal sociology and legal history by an international group of distinguished scholars. All of them have been influenced by the eminent and prolific legal historian, legal sociologist and scholar of comparative law, Lawrence M. Friedman. Not just a Festschrift of essays …
Mitigation and Aggravation at Sentencing
Inbunden, 2011
1648 kr
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This innovative volume explores a fundamental issue in the field of sentencing: the factors which make a sentence more or less severe. All sentencing systems allow courts discretion to consider mitigating and aggravating factors, and many legislatures have placed a number of such factors on a …
Darfur and the Crime of Genocide
Av John Hagan, Wenona Rymond-Richmond
Inbunden, 2008
1048 kr
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In 2004, the State Department gathered more than a thousand interviews from refugees in Chad that verified Colin Powell's UN and congressional testimonies about the Darfur genocide. The survey cost nearly a million dollars to conduct and yet it languished in the archives as the killing continued, …
Law, Anthropology, and the Constitution of the Social
Making Persons and Things
Av Alain Pottage, Martha Mundy
Häftad, 2004
748 kr
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This collection of interdisciplinary essays explores how persons and things - the central elements of the social - are fabricated by legal rituals and institutions. The contributors, legal and anthropological theorists alike, focus on a set of specific institutional and ethnographic contexts, and …
Social Citizenship and Workfare in the United States and Western Europe
The Paradox of Inclusion
Häftad, 2004
762 kr
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This book compares workfare policies in the United States and 'active labor policies' in Western Europe that are aimed primarily at the long-term unemployed, unemployed youth, lone parents, immigrants and other vulnerable groups often referred to collectively as the 'socially excluded'. The …
Law and Globalization from Below
Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality
Av Boaventura de Sousa Santos, César A. Rodríguez-Garavito
Häftad, 2005
613 kr
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This book is an unprecedented attempt to analyze the role of the law in the global movement for social justice. Case studies in the book are written by leading scholars from both the global South and the global North, and combine empirical research on the ground with innovative sociolegal theory to …
Immigrants at the Margins
Law, Race, and Exclusion in Southern Europe
Häftad, 2005
853 kr
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Spain and Italy have recently become countries of large-scale immigration. This provocative book explores immigration law and the immigrant experience in these southern European nations, and exposes the tension between the temporary and contingent legal status of most immigrants, and the government …
Public Accountability
Designs, Dilemmas and Experiences
Häftad, 2006
653 kr
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There is an ongoing perception that public accountability in modern-day governance is in 'crisis', caused by globalization and the increasing power of private economic interests. This book responds to that idea, providing the most comprehensive survey to date of how different organizations hold …
Globalisation, Human Rights and Labour Law in Pacific Asia
Av Anthony Woodiwiss, Chris Arup m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
667 kr
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Anthony Woodiwiss's pathbreaking book was the first substantive contribution to a sociology of human rights. In it, he takes up the question of whether so-called Asian values are compatible with human rights discourse and argues against human rights issues being the major obstacle to East-West …
The Colonies of Law
Colonialism, Zionism and Law in Early Mandate Palestine
Av Ronen Shamir
Inbunden, 1999
1648 kr
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Treating law as an essential cultural component in a nation-building project, this book offers a socio-historical analysis of a community-based system of justice under colonial rule. It traces the attempts of Jewish jurists-nationalists to establish a non-religious system of Hebrew Courts in …
Unemployment and Government
Genealogies of the Social
Inbunden, 2000
1628 kr
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While joblessness is by no means a phenomenon specific to this century, the concept of 'unemployment' is. This book follows the invention and transformation of unemployment, understood as a historically specific site of regulation. Taking key aspects of the history of unemployment in Britain as its …
Diseases of the Will
Alcohol and the Dilemmas of Freedom
Av Mariana Valverde, Chris Arup m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
673 kr
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While associated with comfort and pleasure, alcohol has been and is a 'problem' substance, both for medical and political authorities and for many drinkers. In this broad-ranging and innovative historical-sociological investigation, Valverde explores the ways in which both authorities and …
Governing Morals
A Social History of Moral Regulation
Av Alan Hunt
Häftad, 1999
748 kr
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This evocative and broad-ranging book traces the history of moral regulation in Britain and the US from the late seventeenth century to the present day. Specific coverage is given to movements such as the Society for the Reformation of Manners and the Vice Society, the sexual abuse and …
Lawyers in Conflict and Transition
Av Kieran McEvoy, Louise Mallinder m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
450 kr
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Countries undergoing or recovering from conflict and authoritarianism often face profound rule of law challenges. The law on the statute books may be repressive, judicial independence may be compromised, and criminal justice agencies may be captured by powerful interests. How do lawyers working …
The Practice of Human Rights
Tracking Law between the Global and the Local
Av Mark Goodale, Sally Engle Merry
Häftad, 2007
732 kr
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Human rights are now the dominant approach to social justice globally. But how do human rights work? What do they do? Drawing on anthropological studies of human rights work from around the world, this book examines human rights in practice. It shows how groups and organizations mobilize human …
Law, Violence and Sovereignty Among West Bank Palestinians
Av Tobias Kelly
Häftad, 2009
667 kr
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As the Oslo Peace Process has given way to the violence of the second intifada, this book explores the continuing legacy of Oslo in the everyday life of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Taking a perspective that sees the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a conflict over the distribution of legal …
Constitutionalizing Economic Globalization
Investment Rules and Democracy's Promise
Häftad, 2008
748 kr
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Are foreign investors the privileged citizens of a new constitutional order that guarantees rates of return on investment interests? Schneiderman explores the linkages between a new investment rules regime and state constitutions - between a constitution-like regime for the protection of foreign …
Institutional Inequality and the Mobilization of the Family and Medical Leave Act
Rights on Leave
Häftad, 2012
718 kr
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How do Family and Medical Leave Act rights operate in practice in the courts and in the workplace? This empirical study examines how institutions and social practices transform the meaning of these rights to recreate inequality. Workplace rules and norms built around the family wage ideal, the …
Paths to International Justice
Social and Legal Perspectives
Av Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, Tobias Kelly
Häftad, 2007
718 kr
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This volume focuses on the everyday social relationships through which international justice is produced. Using case studies from the International Criminal Court, the European Court of Human Rights, the UN Women's Convention Committee and elsewhere, it explores international justice as a process …
Fictions of Justice
The International Criminal Court and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Häftad, 2009
523 kr
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By taking up the challenge of documenting how human rights values are embedded in rule of law movements to produce a new language of international justice that competes with a range of other formations, this book explores how notions of justice are negotiated through everyday micropractices and …
Conducting Law and Society Research
Reflections on Methods and Practices
Av Simon Halliday, Patrick Schmidt
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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Through interviews with many of the most noteworthy authors in law and society, Conducting Law and Society Research takes students and scholars behind the scenes of empirical scholarship, showing the messy reality of research methods. The challenges and the uncertainties, so often missing from …
