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Specializing the Courts
Häftad, 2011
298 kr
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Most Americans think that judges should be, and are, generalists who decide a wide array of cases. Nonetheless, we now have specialized courts in many key policy areas. "Specializing the Courts" provides the first comprehensive analysis of this growing trend toward specialization in the federal and …
Pulled Over
How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship
Av Charles R. Epp, Steven Maynard-Moody m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1598 kr
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In sheer numbers, no form of government control comes close to the police stop. Each year, twelve percent of drivers in the United States are stopped by the police, and the figure is almost double among racial minorities. Police stops are among the most frequently criticized incidences of racial …
Pulled Over
How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship
Av Charles R. Epp, Steven Maynard-Moody m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
308 kr
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In sheer numbers, no form of government control comes close to the police stop. Each year, twelve percent of drivers in the United States are stopped by the police, and the figure is almost double among racial minorities. Police stops are among the most frequently criticized incidences of racial …
Rules versus Relationships
The Ethnography of Legal Discourse
Av John M. Conley, William M. O'Barr
Häftad, 1990
274 kr
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In Rules versus Relationships, John M. Conley and William M. O'Barr examine the experiences of litigants seeking redress of everyday difficulties through the small claims courts of the American legal system. The authors find two major and contrasting ways in which litigants formulate and express …
Dealing in Virtue
International Commercial Arbitration and the Construction of a Transnational Legal Order
Av Yves Dezalay, Bryant G. Garth
Häftad, 1998
338 kr
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In recent years, international business disputes have increasingly been resolved through private arbitration. This book details how an elite group of transnational lawyers constructed an autonomous legal field that has given them a central and powerful role in the global marketplace. Building on …
Internationalization of Palace Wars
Lawyers, Economists, and the Contest to Transform Latin American States
Av Yves Dezalay, Bryant G. Garth
Häftad, 2002
351 kr
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The Internationalization of Palace Wars offers concrete information about the transnational processes that shape our world. It shows how the content of exported ideals is shaped by domestic struggles for power and influence.
Asian Legal Revivals
Lawyers in the Shadow of Empire
Av Yves Dezalay, Bryant G. Garth
Häftad, 2010
298 kr
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More than a decade ago, before globalization became a buzzword, Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth established themselves as leading analysts of how that process has shaped the legal profession. Drawing upon the insights of Pierre Bourdieu, "Asian Legal Revivals" explores the increasing importance of …
Rights of Inclusion
Law and Identity in the Life Stories of Americans with Disabilities
Av David M. Engel, Frank W. Munger
Häftad, 2003
267 kr
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"Rights of Inclusion" provides an innovative, accessible perspective on how civil rights legislation affects the lives of ordinary Americans. Based on eye-opening and deeply moving interviews with intended beneficiaries of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), David M. Engel and Frank W. …
Making Rights Real
Activists, Bureaucrats, and the Creation of the Legalistic State
Häftad, 2010
274 kr
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It's a common complaint: the United States is overrun by rules and procedures that shackle professional judgment, have no valid purpose, and serve only to appease courts and lawyers. Charles R. Epp argues, however, that few Americans would want to return to an era without these legalistic policies, …
Struggle for Water
Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest
Häftad, 1998
325 kr
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Nearly 50 years ago the Bureau of Reclamation proposed building a dam in Central Arizona, the dam would bring valuable water to the arid plain but it would also destroy a wildlife habitat, flood archaeological sites and force the Yavapai Indians off their ancestral home. The three groups most …
Common Place of Law
Stories from Everyday Life
Av Patricia Ewick, Susan S. Silbey
Häftad, 1998
298 kr
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This study explores the different ways people view the law. It identifies three common narratives: one is based on the idea of the law as magisterial and remote; another views the law as a game with rules that can be manipulated to one's advantage; and a third narrative describes the law as an …
Seductions of Quantification
Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking
Inbunden, 2016
1230 kr
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We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Yet counting things requires finding a way to make …
Seductions of Quantification
Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking
Häftad, 2016
291 kr
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We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Yet counting things requires finding a way to make …
Overseers of the Poor
Surveillance, Resistance, and the Limits of Privacy
Av John Gilliom
Inbunden, 2001
787 kr
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In "Overseers of the Poor", John Gilliom confronts the everyday politics of surveillance by exploring the worlds and words of those who know it best - the watched. Arguing that the current public conversation about surveillance and privacy rights is rife with political and conceptual failings, …
Overseers of the Poor
Surveillance, Resistance, and the Limits of Privacy
Av John Gilliom
Häftad, 2001
259 kr
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In Overseers of the Poor, John Gilliom confronts the everyday politics of surveillance by exploring the worlds and words of those who know it best-the watched. Arguing that the current public conversation about surveillance and privacy rights is rife with political and conceptual failings, Gilliom …
Invitation to Law and Society
An Introduction to the Study of Real Law
Inbunden, 2016
355 kr
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Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and courtrooms but in our institutions and interactions, while inviting readers into …
Invitation to Law and Society, Second Edition
An Introduction to the Study of Real Law
Häftad, 2016
164 kr
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Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and courtrooms but in our institutions and interactions, while inviting readers into …
Justice in the Balkans
Prosecuting War Crimes in the Hague Tribunal
Av John Hagan
Inbunden, 2003
273 kr
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Called a fig leaf for inaction by many at its inception, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has surprised its critics by growing from an unfunded U.N. Security Council resolution to an institution with more than 1,000 employees and a $100 million annual budget. With …
Distorting the Law
Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis
Av William Haltom, Michael McCann
Häftad, 2004
243 kr
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In recent years, stories of reckless lawyers and greedy citizens have given the legal system, and victims in general, a bad name. Many Americans have come to believe that we live in the land of the litigious, where frivolous lawsuits and absurdly high settlements reign.Scholars have argued for …
Pronouncing and Persevering
Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court
Inbunden, 1998
787 kr
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The title of this study reflects the image of gender relations most commonly associated with Islamic law - this being a study of disputes involving Swahili Muslims in coastal Kenya. Men need only "pronounce" divorce to resolve marital conflicts, while embattled wives must persevere by enduring …
Pronouncing and Persevering
Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court
Häftad, 1998
298 kr
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The title of this study reflects the image of gender relations most commonly associated with Islamic law - this being a study of disputes involving Swahili Muslims in coastal Kenya. Men need only "pronounce" divorce to resolve marital conflicts, while embattled wives must persevere by enduring …
Policing Immigrants
Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines
Av Doris Marie Provine, Monica W. Varsanyi m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
256 kr
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The United States deported nearly two million illegal immigrants during the first five years of the Obama presidency—more than during any previous administration. President Obama stands accused by activists of being “deporter in chief.” Yet despite efforts to rebuild what many see as a broken …
Working Law
Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights
Inbunden, 2016
771 kr
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Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, virtually all companies have antidiscrimination policies in place. Although these policies represent some progress, women and minorities remain underrepresented within the workplace as a whole and even more so when you look at high-level positions. They …
Working Law
Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights
Häftad, 2016
290 kr
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Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, virtually all companies have antidiscrimination policies in place. Although these policies represent some progress, women and minorities remain underrepresented within the workplace as a whole and even more so when you look at high-level positions. They …
Lawyers in Practice
Ethical Decision Making in Context
Av Leslie C. Levin, Lynn Mather
Inbunden, 2012
1047 kr
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How do lawyers resolve ethical dilemmas in the everyday context of their practice? What are the issues that commonly arise, and how do lawyers determine the best ways to resolve them? Until recently, efforts to answer these questions have focused primarily on rules and legal doctrine rather than …
Lawyers in Practice
Ethical Decision Making in Context
Av Leslie C. Levin, Lynn Mather
Häftad, 2012
393 kr
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How do lawyers resolve ethical dilemmas in the everyday context of their practice? What are the issues that commonly arise, and how do lawyers determine the best ways to resolve them? Until recently, efforts to answer these questions have focused primarily on rules and legal doctrine rather than …
Just Words
Law, Language, and Power, Third Edition
Av John M Conley, William M. O'Barr m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
290 kr
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Is it "just words" when a lawyer cross-examines a rape victim in the hopes of getting her to admit an interest in her attacker? Is it "just words" when the Supreme Court hands down a decision or when business people draw up a contract? In tackling the question of how an abstract entity exerts …
This Is Not Civil Rights
Discovering Rights Talk in 1939 America
Inbunden, 2012
992 kr
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Since at least the time of Tocqueville, observers have noted that Americans draw on the language of rights when expressing dissatisfaction with political and social conditions. As the United States confronts a complicated set of twenty-first-century problems, that tradition continues, with …
This Is Not Civil Rights
Discovering Rights Talk in 1939 America
Häftad, 2012
274 kr
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Since at least the time of Tocqueville, observers have noted that Americans draw on the language of rights when expressing dissatisfaction with political and social conditions. As the United States confronts a complicated set of twenty-first-century problems, that tradition continues, with …
Getting Justice and Getting Even – Legal Consciousness among Working–Class Americans
Häftad, 1990
330 kr
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Ordinary Americans often bring family and neighborhood problems to court, seeking justice or revenge. The litigants in these local squabbles encounter law at its boundaries in the corridors of busy city courthouses, in the offices of court clerks, and in the church parlors used by mediation …
