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Academic Freedom and the Law
Hart Publishing Limited 2010; US$ 79.20Academic Freedom and the Law: A Comparative Study provides a critical analysis of the law relating to academic freedom in three major jurisdictions: the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States. Thebook outlines the various claims which may be made to academic freedom by individual university teachers and by universities and other higher education... more...
Law and Intersystemic Communication
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 124.95This 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...
Intersectionality and Beyond
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 61.95This 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...
Law in Perspective
University of NSW Press 2008; US$ 52.00Law in Perspective is intended to encourage critical, responsible and creative thinking about law as a system of ideas and a social institution. This second edition has been revised to include new chapters on human rights, liberal democracy, economic efficiency, problems of the market, and distributive justice. As well, the information provided on... more...
Living Law
Hart Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 45.00This collection of essays is the first edited volume in the English language which is entirely dedicated to the work of Eugen Ehrlich. Eugen Ehrlich (1862-1922) was an eminent Austrian legal theorist and professor of Roman law. He is considered by many as one of the 'founding fathers' of modern sociology of law. Although the importance of his... more...
Begriff und Rechtfertigung abdingbaren Rechts
Mohr Siebeck 2012; US$ 103.60Hauptbeschreibung 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...
Contested States
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 36.95Contested 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...
Het Nederlands hoger onderwijsrecht
Leiden University Press 2011; US$ 99.75Het Nederlands hoger onderwijsrecht' komt uit in de Meijers-reeks van Leiden University Press. De reeks valt onder verantwoordelijkheid van het E.M. Meijers Instituut van de Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid van de Universiteit Leiden. Dr. Ruud Louw belicht de juridische kant van het hoger onderwijs om meer bekendheid te geven en meer inzicht te... more...
Law and Opinion in Twentieth-Century Britain and Ireland
Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 122.00Law 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...
Interdisciplinary Legal Studies
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010; US$ 124.95This volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" brings together research by graduate students from universities in the United States and the United Kingdom. The work of these students was singled out by their teachers and advisors as showing unusual promise and marking out directions for the next generation of interdisciplinary legal... more...









