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The Life of the Law
University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95Laura Nader, an instrumental figure in the development of the field of legal anthropology, investigates an issue of vital importance for our time: the role of the law in the struggle for social and economic justice. In this book she gives an overview of the history of legal anthropology and at the same time urges anthropologists, lawyers, and activists... more...
Psychology and Law
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 33.00This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date discussion of contemporary debates at the interface between psychology and criminal law. International in its scope and broad-ranging in its research, this book is the authoritative work on psycho-legal enquiry for students and professionals in psychology, law, criminology, social work and law enforcement. more...
The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics
Edward Elgar Publishing 2005; US$ 60.00This thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular and authoritative reference work introduces the reader to the major concepts and leading contributors in the field of law and economics. The Companion features accessible, informative and provocative entries on all the significant issues, and breaks new ground by bringing together widely dispersed... more...
Human Rights, Culture and the Rule of Law
Hart Publishing Limited 2005; US$ 102.60This new book examines the relationship between culture and respect for human rights. It departs from the oft-made assumption that culture is closely linked to ideas about community. Instead, it reveals culture as a quality possessed by the individual with a serious impact on her ability to enjoy the rights and freedoms as recognised in international... more...
An Aesthetics of Law and Culture
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004; US$ 102.00Examining practices of representation and their relation to juridical and cultural formations, this volume features contributions that are based on four themes in contemporary, theoretically informed critical scholarship. The chapters range across the media of speech and writing, word and image, legislation and judgment, literature, and cinema. more...
Sword and Scales
Hart Publishing Limited 2000; US$ 30.60This short and accessible book provides a provocative re-assessment of the various tangled relationships between law and politics and in so doing examines legal and political thinking on such critical areas as justice,the state, constitutionalism and rights. more...
Handbook of Law and Economics
Elsevier Science 2007; US$ 150.00Law can be viewed as a body of rules and legal sanctions that channel behavior in socially desirable directions ? for example, by encouraging individuals to take proper precautions to prevent accidents or by discouraging competitors from colluding to raise prices. The incentives created by the legal system are thus a natural subject of study by economists.... more...
Principles and Methods of Law and Economics
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 35.00The book juxtaposes economic analysis with moral philosophy, political theory, egalitarianism, and other methodological principles. more...
Economic Analysis of the Law
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 149.95Providing students with a solid grounding in the economic analysis of the law, this reader brings together edited versions of diverse and challenging journal articles into a unified collection. Chosen to provoke thought and discussion, these carefully streamlined articles apply economic theories to many aspects of the law, from intellectual property,... more...
Law & Capitalism
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 25.00Recent high-profile corporate scandals—such as those involving Enron in the United States, Yukos in Russia, and Livedoor in Japan—demonstrate challenges to legal regulation of business practices in capitalist economies. Setting forth a new analytic framework for understanding these problems, Law and Capitalism examines such contemporary... more...









