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Responsive Regulation
Transcending the Deregulation Debate
Av Ian Ayres, John Braithwaite
Inbunden, 1992
4061 kr
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Drawing extensively on empirical studies from the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand, John Braithwaite and Ian Ayres offer an well-argued addition to the comparative literature on government regulation. In an effort to transcend the ongoing debate between those who favour strong state regulation …
Responsive Regulation
Transcending the Deregulation Debate
Av Ian Ayres, John Braithwaite
Häftad, 1995
960 kr
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This book transcends current debate on government regulation by lucidly outlining how regulations can be a fruitful combination of persuasion and sanctions. The regulation of business by the United States government is often ineffective despite being more adversarial in tone than in other nations. …
Coercion to Compromise
Plea Bargaining, the Courts, and the Making of Political Authority
Inbunden, 2007
921 kr
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This book examines the origins of the controversial practice of plea bargaining, a procedure that appears to reward the guilty. Contrary to popular perception of plea bargaining as an innovation or corruption of the post-World War II years, this study shows that the practice emerged early in the …
Coercion to Compromise
Plea Bargaining, the Courts, and the Making of Political Authority
Häftad, 2007
531 kr
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This book examines the origins of the controversial practice of plea bargaining, a procedure that appears to reward the guilty. Contrary to popular perception of plea bargainingas as an innovation or corruption of the post-World War II years, this study shows the practice to have emerged early in …
Cause Lawyering
Political Commitments and Professional Responsibilities
Av Sarat, Scheingold
Häftad, 1998
1436 kr
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Why do some lawyers devote themselves to a given social movement or political cause? How are such deeds of individual commitment and personal belief justly executed, given the ideals of disinterested professional service to which lawyers are (in theory, at least) supposed to adhere? What can we …
Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era
Av Stuart Scheingold, Austin Sarat
Häftad, 2001
781 kr
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Sarat and Scheingold's book, Cause Lawyering, the first volume of its kind, coined the term for law as practiced by the politically motivated and those devoted to moral activism. The new collection examines cause lawyering in the global context, exploring the ways in which it is influencing and …
Regulating Commercial Gambling
Past, Present, and Future
Av David Miers
Inbunden, 2004
2694 kr
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Three quarters of the British population gamble (mainly on the National Lottery), and they generate around 46 billion pounds a year. This volume sets recent developments in the regulation and deregulation of its three primary forms - betting, gaming, and lotteries - against an account of their …
Reservation of Title Clauses
Impact and Implications
Inbunden, 1992
2855 kr
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This book examines the phenomenon of reservation of title clauses in commercial contracts and looks at the impact of these clauses upon the transactions of which they form a part. With the aid of data gathered from a field survey it also examines the impact of these clauses in situations of …
Medical Discipline
The Professional Conduct Jurisdiction of the General Medical Council, 1858-1990
Inbunden, 1994
1116 kr
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This book considers whether or not the General Medical Council's professional conduct jurisdiction acts fairly and justly when dealing both with doctors whose conduct it controls, and members of the public whose interests it was established to protect. By looking at the legal history of the Council …
Families, Politics, and the Law
Perspectives for East and West Europe
Av Mavis Maclean, JacekJ. Kurczewski
Inbunden, 1994
1918 kr
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The family has become a political battleground in both East and West. In the West, interventionist policies designed to encourage equality of opportunity and to eliminate the problems encountered by disadvantaged members of the traditional family (usually women, children and the elderly) have been …
Contrasts in Tolerance
Post-War Penal Policy in the Netherlands and England and Wales
Av David Downes
Häftad, 1993
654 kr
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"David Downes' fascinating comparative analysis takes us a great deal nearer to an understanding of the roots and strength of reductionism in the Netherlands...... powerful and scholarly enquiry" New Statesman and Society"Contrasts in Tolerance is expertly crafted and beautifully written. Professor …
Wills, Inheritance and Families
Av Janet Finch, Lynn Hayes m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1911 kr
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The Issue of how assets are distributed after death is of increasing significance for larger numbers of people. In this original and path-breaking study, the authors examine the principle means through which people plan to dispose of their assets after death: by the use of wills. By offering an …
The Social World of an English Crown Court
Witnesses and Professionals in the Crown Court Centre at Wood Green
Av Paul Rock
Inbunden, 1993
1386 kr
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The Social World of an English Crown Court is the first ethnographic study of a Crown Court Centre. It also describes the origins and early history of a pioneering project to support victims and prosecution witnesses appearing before the court–the Witness Support Project. Paul Rock analyses the …
Housing Homeless Persons
Administrative Law and the Administrative Process
Av Ian Loveland
Inbunden, 1995
2037 kr
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The size of Britain's homeless population has risen considerably since the introduction of the Housing (Homeless) Persons Act 1977. Recently, the Government announced plans radically to reform the existing legislation, a recognition of the political sensitivity of homelessness and the need for a …
The Uses of Discretion
Häftad, 1995
1127 kr
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Discretion is a pervasive phenomenon in legal systems. It is of concern to lawyers because it can be a force for justice or injustice: at once a means of advancing the broad purposes of law and of subventing them. For social scientists the discretion exercised by legal actors is an important form …
English Lawyers between Market and State
The Politics of Professionalism
Inbunden, 2003
3555 kr
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Toward the end of the twentieth century, English lawyers enjoyed widespread respect and prosperity. They had survived criticism by practitioners and academics and a Royal Commission enquiry, but the final decade witnessed profound changes. First the Conservatives sought to apply laissez-faire …
English Lawyers between Market and State
The Politics of Professionalism
Häftad, 2004
968 kr
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Toward the end of the twentieth century, English lawyers enjoyed widespread respect and prosperity. They had survived criticism by practitioners and academics and a Royal Commission enquiry, but the final decade witnessed profound changes. First the Conservatives sought to apply laissez-faire …
Law as a Social System
Av Niklas Luhmann, Fatima Kastner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
3726 kr
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Modern systems theory provides a new paradigm for the analysis of society. In this volume, Niklas Luhmann, its leading exponent, explores its implications for our understanding of law. Luhmann argues that current thinking about how law operates within a modern society is seriously deficient. In …
Lawyers and the Rise of Western Political Liberalism
Europe and North America from the Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries
Av Terence C. Halliday, Lucien Karpik
Inbunden, 1998
2480 kr
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In contrast to other theories of legal professions, which neglect politics, this volume advances a political theory of lawyers' collective action by demonstrating lawyers' influence on the emergence and development of western political liberalism. Four sociologists and four historians show how …
Rules and Regulators
Av Julia Black
Inbunden, 1997
2122 kr
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Julia Black's book is the first authoritative study of rulemaking in one of the most important areas of economic life: financial services. The books has three main aims: first, to build a jurisprudential and linguistic analysis of rules and interpretation, drawing out the implication of these …
Sexually Transmitted Debt
Surety Experience and English Law
Inbunden, 1997
1056 kr
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This book is the first major study of an increasingly evident legal and social problem: spouses and partners (particularly wives) who provide third party loan security for the business liabilities of their other spouse or partner. Unlike other texts in this field, Fehlberg specifically considers …
Compliance: Regulation and Environment
Inbunden, 1997
2180 kr
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Regulation touches upon areas of vital importance to our lives and the economy, but it is still very much a 'grey area' of criminal law and social control, subject to very little academic scrutiny. This book combines an analysis of the broader structural factors which influence regulation and its …
Small Claims in the County Courts in England and Wales
The Bargain Basement of Civil Justice
Av John Baldwin
Inbunden, 1997
2736 kr
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The way that small claims are dealt with has prompted enormous interest in many jurisdictions, yet the subject has been neglected by researchers in this country. We should not doubt the importance of these procedures, however. It is increasingly seen as a convenient expedient in tackling the crisis …
Rules and Government
Av Baldwin
Häftad, 1997
791 kr
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This book examines how governmental and regulatory activities are carried out by `soft laws' in the form of codes, regulations, directives and other non-statutory rules. Key questions considered are: When should government or regulation be structured according to soft law rules? What are the …
Law's Community
Legal Theory in Sociological Perspective
Häftad, 1997
1397 kr
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Law's Community offers a distinctive analysis of law, identifying political and moral problems that are fundamental to contemporary legal theory. It portrays contemporary law as institutionalized doctrine, emphasizing ways in which legal modes of thought influence wider currents of understanding …
The Oldest Social Science?
Configurations of Law and Modernity
Inbunden, 1997
1953 kr
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This book looks critically at some of the underlying assumptions which shape our current understanding of the role and purpose of law and society. It focuses on adjudication as a social practice and as a set of governmental techniques. From this vantage point, it explores how the relationship …
Realistic Socio-Legal Theory
Pragmatism and a Social Theory of Law
Inbunden, 1997
821 kr
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Combining philosophical pargmatism with a methodological foundation, Tamanaha formulates a framework for a realistic approach to socio-legal theory. The strengths of this approach are contrasted with that of the major schools of socio-legal theory by application to core issues in this area. Thus …
Regulating Workplace Safety
Systems and Sanctions
Av Neil Gunningham, Richard Johnstone
Inbunden, 1999
3134 kr
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Drawing from experience internationally, on recent and important developments in regulatory theory, and upon models and approaches constructed during the author's empirical research, this book addresses the question: how can law influence the internal self-regulation of organisations in order to …
Just Lawyers
Regulation and Access to Justice
Inbunden, 1999
3134 kr
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Just Lawyers proposes a model for the regulation and organization of lawyers, guided by an ideal of access to justice. It is grounded in empirical analysis of why people complain about lawyers, the nature of existing legal institutions, and the ethical ideals of the profession.Parker weaves the …
Environment and Enforcement
Regulation and the Social Definition of Pollution
Häftad, 1984
557 kr
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Most studies of law enforcement deal with police work, and many are concerned with underenforcement of selective enforcement as problems. This book shifts the focus to social and economic regulation and the issue of compliance.
