The Handbook of Law and Society
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Publication date:
- 2015-04-20
- Authors:
-
Austin Sarat
Patricia Ewick
(Professor of Sociology at Clark University) - ISBN:
- 978-1-118-70144-7
Description:
Bringing a timely synthesis to the field, The Handbook of Law and Society presents a comprehensive overview of key research findings, theoretical developments, and methodological controversies in the field of law and society.
Provides illuminating insights into societal issues that pose ongoing real-world legal problems
Offers accessible, succinct overviews with in-depth coverage of each topic, including its evolution, current state, and directions for future research
Addresses a wide range of emergent topics in law and society and revisits perennial questions about law in a global world including the widening gap between codified laws and “law in action”, problems in the implementation of legal decisions, law’s constitutive role in shaping society, the importance of law in everyday life, ways legal institutions both embrace and resist change, the impact of new media and technologies on law, intersections of law and identity, law’s relationship to social consensus and conflict, and many more
Features contributions from 38 international expert scholars working in diverse fields at the intersections of legal studies and social sciences
Unique in its contributions to this rapidly expanding and important new multi-disciplinary field of study
Provides illuminating insights into societal issues that pose ongoing real-world legal problems
Offers accessible, succinct overviews with in-depth coverage of each topic, including its evolution, current state, and directions for future research
Addresses a wide range of emergent topics in law and society and revisits perennial questions about law in a global world including the widening gap between codified laws and “law in action”, problems in the implementation of legal decisions, law’s constitutive role in shaping society, the importance of law in everyday life, ways legal institutions both embrace and resist change, the impact of new media and technologies on law, intersections of law and identity, law’s relationship to social consensus and conflict, and many more
Features contributions from 38 international expert scholars working in diverse fields at the intersections of legal studies and social sciences
Unique in its contributions to this rapidly expanding and important new multi-disciplinary field of study
Approaches to the Study of Law as a Social Phenomenon
Institutional Processes and Actors
Domains of Legal Policy
- Domains of Policy: Law and Society Research on the Family
- Domains of Policy: Law and Society Perspectives on Antidiscrimination Law
- Domains of Policy: Law and Society Perspectives on Punishment and Social Control
- Welfare Law
- Immigration Law and Immigrants' Lived Experiences
- The Return of Religion: The Rise, Decline, and Possible Resurrection of Legal Secularism
- Human Rights
- More-than-Human Legalities: Advocating an 'Animal Turn' in Law and Society
- Law and Disability
How Does Law Matter?
- The Constitution of Identity: Law and Race
- The Constitution of Identity: New Modalities of Nationality, Citizenship, Belonging and Being
- The Past, Present, and Future of Rights Scholarship
- Law and Social Movements: Old Debates and New Directions
- The Rule of Law and Economic Development: Global Scripts, Vernacular Translations
- Law and Colonialism: Legacies and Lineages
- Law and Globalism: Law without the State as Law without Violence