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Socio-Legal Studies in Context
The Oxford Centre Past and Future
Av Galligan, Denis J. Galligan
Häftad, 1995
306 kr
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Socio-Legal Studies in Context is the first attempt to take stock of the development of socio-legal studies in the United Kingdom. With an increasing awareness amongst legal scholars of the need for socio-legal research, this volume is essential reading for all teachers of law and law related …
Human Rights
Changing the Culture
Av Clements, Young Luke m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
274 kr
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The Human Rights Act 1998 will come into force in the year 2000. This volume explores the significance of this event.
Voices, Spaces, and Processes in Constitutionalism
Av Colin Harvey, John Morison m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
274 kr
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This book explores debates in constitutionalism around the attempt to map the fragmented nature of governance in the new constitutional landscape of the UK, the EU and elsewhere. The book examines these issues at all levels from the EU through to the details of some of the new devolutionary …
Law and Film
Av MACHURA, Stefan Machura m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
316 kr
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This collection brings together contemporary work from Britain, Germany and the United States on how law and lawyers have been represented in film, particularly in the past 40 years. The collection recognises the major influence of Hollywood and the American legal system and seeks to explore the …
New Directions in Regulatory Theory
Av Picciotto, Sol Picciotto m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
368 kr
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In this prestigious edited collection, an international group of leading contributors to the law of regulation take stock of the erosion of belief in centralised planning and command and control regulation which has accompanied the collapse of communism. They explore the new directions in …
Towards an Economic Sociology of Law
Av Diamond Ashiagbor, Prabha Kotiswaran m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
274 kr
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Reflecting a developing trend towards interdisciplinary research in economics and law, this agenda-setting volume makes the case for economic sociology of law – an emerging field that draws on empirical, analytical and normative insights from sociology to investigate relationships between legal and …
Post-crisis Trajectories of European Corporate Governance
Dealing with the Present and Building the Future
Av Alan Dignam, Michael Galanis
Häftad, 2014
279 kr
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Post-crisis Trajectories of European Corporate Governance offers a critical reassessment of policy and institutional elements of corporate governance as it relates to the member states of the European Union. Presents a critical overview of contemporary corporate governance practices in the …
Legal Life-Writing
Marginalised Subjects and Sources
Av Linda Mulcahy, David Sugarman
Häftad, 2015
274 kr
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Legal Life-Writing provides the first sustained treatment of the implications of life-writing on legal biography, autobiography and the visual history of law in society through a focus on neglected sources, and on those usually marginalized or ignored in legal biography and legal history, such as …
Law�s Metaphors
Interrogating Languages of Law, Justice and Legitimacy
Häftad, 2016
274 kr
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Law’s Metaphors: Interrogating Languages of Law, Justice and Legitimacy presents a series of essays that reveal how metaphors for terms relating to the theory and practice of law are utilized in legal texts, literary works, and in our popular imagination. Represents an innovative approach to …
Austerity And Law In Europe
Av Marija Bartl, Markos Karavias
Häftad, 2017
274 kr
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Austerity and Law in Europe presents an interdisciplinary collection of essays that challenge traditional narratives of austerity. The contributions recast austerity as a historically contingent political rationality that operates through law and technocracy. A collection of essays that tackles the …
After Universalism
Re-engineering Access to Justice
Av Richard Moorhead, Pascoe Pleasence
Häftad, 2003
321 kr
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As state spending on legal services has come under pressure, so too has state commitment to equal access to justice. This volume brings together experts from around the world to look at what happens when the notion that justice should be available to everyone, regardless of means, is challenged. …
Law and Literature
Häftad, 2004
359 kr
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This book explores the many approaches available to the study of law and literature. An exploration of the many relationships between law and literature. Looks at what law and literature can learn from one another. Makes those involved in literary studies more conscious of the impact that law has …
Debating Affirmative Action
Conceptual, Contextual, and Comparative Perspectives
Häftad, 2006
287 kr
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This collection examines the case for affirmative action in the UK in relation to employment, higher education, the legal profession, the judiciary, political representation and minority language rights. Draws on experience of affirmative action in the United States, Canada and Germany. …
Democracy's Empire
Sovereignty, Law, and Violence
Häftad, 2007
275 kr
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The essays in this volume take on the challenge of explaining the current formation of the relation between sovereignty, law and violence in what is termed ‘Democracy’s Empire’. Contains a situated discussion of the institution of democracy and relatedjuridico-political problems Examines the …
Economic Globalisation and Ecological Localization
Socio-Legal Perspectives
Häftad, 2009
275 kr
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This special issue explores the interrelationship between global economic interests and local ecological interests, and its implications in law. Along this axis, it seeks to examine not only the capacity of global forces to subjugate local interests in responding to territorially confined threats, …
Regulating Sex / Work
From Crime Control to Neo-liberalism?
Av Scoular, Jane Scoular m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
275 kr
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Regulating Sex/Work: From Crime Control to Neo-liberalism? addresses the rise in sexual commerce and consumption by challenging traditional responses and offering a fresh approach to sex industry regulation Examines different forms of sex regulation by utilizing examples from a range of sex markets …
Challenge of Transnational Private Regulation
Conceptual and Constitutional Debates
Av Colin Scott, Fabrizio Cafaggi m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
275 kr
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The Challenge of Transnational Private Regulation: Conceptual and Constitutional Debates presents an extensive treatment of the constitutional dimensions of transnational private regulation, including its sources of power and modes of accountability. Represents the first extensive treatment of the …
Material Worlds
Intersections of Law, Science, Technology, and Society
Av Christopher Lawless, Alex Faulkner
Häftad, 2012
307 kr
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A study of the existing and future research on the intersections between law and materiality, leading to the illumination of both. A theoretically innovative book exploring the intersections between law and materialityOffers new perspectives on a variety of high profile controversial subjects, …
Human Rights Act
A Success Story?
Av Luke Clements, Philip Thomas
Häftad, 2005
238 kr
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This book seeks to examine the impact of the Human Rights Act legislation from the viewpoint of judges, lawyers, civil libertarians, politicians and academics. Investigation of the Human Rights Act since it came into force in 2000. Contributors include Sir Stephen Sedley, Thomas Mullen, Roger Smith …
Children, Family Responsibilities and the State
Av Craig Lind, Heather Keating
Häftad, 2008
227 kr
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This book explores the growing interest in the way in which the state polices, and ought to police, families failing in their responsibilities. Reflects on the increasing social science research and growing legal system involvement in the ‘problem’ of failing families particularly where children …
