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  • Law and Intersystemic Communicationby Alberto Febbrajo; Gorm Harste

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 124.95

    This volume provides an overview of current perspectives on socio-legal studies with particular attention focused on the concept of 'structural coupling'. The first part of the book presents a reconstruction of theoretical tendencies in the field of socio-legal studies, characterised by the emergence of a transnational model of legal systems... more...

  • Rethinking Law, Society and Governanceby Gary Wickham; George Pavlich

    Hart Publishing Limited 2001; US$ 52.20

    This set of essays engages with some aspects of Foucault’s notion of governmentality,particularly at the junction where law/regulation meets ‘the social’. ‘The social’, as a special sphere of government, is a special area of concern for those working within broad intellectual spaces of the ‘governmentality approach’.... more...

  • Intersectionality and Beyondby Emily Grabham; Davina Cooper; Jane Krishnadas; Didi Herman

    Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 61.95

    This collection addresses the present and the future of the concept of intersectionality within socio-legal studies. Intersectionality provides a metaphorical schema for understanding the interaction of different forms of disadvantage, including race, sexuality, and gender. But it also goes further to provide a particular model of how these aspects... more...

  • Begriff und Rechtfertigung abdingbaren Rechtsby Lorenz Kähler

    Mohr Siebeck 2012; US$ 102.18

    Hauptbeschreibung Abdingbares Recht tritt in großer Vielfalt und den unterschiedlichsten Formen auf. Das haben die bisherigen Modelle nur ungenügend berücksichtigt. Lorenz Kähler zeigt in seiner Untersuchung, dass sich abdingbares Recht stattdessen als Menge von Normen begreifen lässt, bei denen der jeweilige Adressat die Anwendbarkeit trotz konstanter... more...

  • Law and Opinion in Twentieth-Century Britain and Irelandby W. John Morgan; Professor Stephen Livingstone

    Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 122.00

    Law and Opinion in Twentieth Century Britain and Ireland covers four main themes: Law and the State; Culture and Identity; Public Morality and the Citizen; The Death of the English Constitution; each theme being analyzed through two essays authored by leading British and Irish academics. The book provides a substantial and readable analysis of the... more...

  • Contested Statesby Mindie Lazarus-Black; Susan F. Hirsch

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 36.95

    Contested States examines how hegemony is created and facilitated through law as well as how people use legal arenas to resist oppression. The essays, written by anthropologists and historians, offer rich historical and ethnographic detail as they engage these themes in such contexts as: colonial and post-colonial courts in Kenya, India, Uganda... more...