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  • - An Introduction to the Study of Real Law
    av Kitty Calavita
    491,-

  • av Bryant G. Garth, Robert L. Nelson, David B. Wilkins, m.fl.
    420 - 1 153,-

  • - Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis
    av William Haltom
    369,-

    "Distorting the law persuasively shows how widespread media reporting of frivolous lawsuits and high settlements have led many Americans to believe we live in the land of the litigious, while the careful research and statistics that would dispel this myth have not received media attention.

  • av Lawrence M. Solan
    369,-

  • - Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization
    av Michael W. McCann
    535,-

    This text explores the role that litigation has played in the struggle for equal pay between women and men. It explains how wage discrimination battles have raised public legal consciousness and helped reform activists mobilize working women in the pay equity movement since the 1970s.

  • - Stories from Everyday Life
    av Patricia (Clark University) Ewick
    408,-

    This study explores the different ways people view the law. It identifies three common narratives: one is based on the idea of the law as magisterial and remote; another views the law as a game to be played; and a third narrative describes the law as an arbitrary power to be actively resisted.

  • - Money and Meaning in the Modern Law Firm
    av Mitt Regan & Lisa H. Rohrer
    437 - 1 254,-

  • - Filipino American Labor Activists, Rights Radicalism, and Racial Capitalism
    av Michael W McCann & George I Lovell
    459 - 1 223,-

  • - How Youth Handle Trouble in a High-Poverty School
    av Calvin Morrill & Michael Musheno
    459 - 1 322,-

  • - Life-And-Death Decisions in Intensive Care
    av Susan P Shapiro
    413 - 930,-

    Analyzes how life-and-death decision makers are selected, the interventions they weigh in on, the information they seek and evaluate, the values and memories they draw on, the criteria they weigh, the outcomes they choose, the conflicts they become embroiled in, and the challenges they face.

  • - Law, Language, and Power, Third Edition
    av William M. O'Barr, John M Conley & Robin Conley Riner
    395,-

  • - Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration
    av Heather Schoenfeld
    477 - 1 070,-

    A history of the rise of mass incarceration in America that shows how it was built on a foundation of racist thinking and bad political incentives.

  • - Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era
    av Christopher W. Schmidt
    395 - 924,-

    An analysis of the 1960s Civil Rights sit-ins that focuses on their legal aspects: the arguments made, the way law was employed, and their effects.

  • - Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights
    av Lauren B. Edelman
    395 - 1 058,-

  • - Why We Don't Sue
    av David M. Engel
    287,-

  • - Translating International Law into Local Justice
    av Sally Engle (Professor of Anthropology Merry
    420,-

    A study that investigates the tensions between global law and local justice. The author offers an insider's perspective on how human rights law holds authorities accountable for the protection of citizens even while reinforcing and expanding state power. This book will interest students of gender studies and anthropology.

  • - Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines
    av Doris Marie Provine, Monica W. Varsanyi, Paul G. Lewis & m.fl.
    369,-

  • - How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship
    av Charles R. Epp, Donald P. Haider Markel & Steven Maynard-Moody
    399 - 1 083,-

    In sheer numbers, no form of government control comes close to the police stop. Police stops are among the most frequently criticized incidences of racial profiling, and studies have shown that minorities are pulled over at higher rates. This book deftly traces the strange history of the investigatory police stop.

  • - Discovering Rights Talk in 1939 America
    av George I. Lovell
    420 - 1 134,-

    Since at least the time of Tocqueville, observers have noted that Americans draw on the language of rights when expressing dissatisfaction with political and social conditions. Drawing on a remarkable cache of Depression-era complaint letters written by ordinary Americans to the Justice Department, the author challenges these common claims.

  • - Activists, Bureaucrats, and the Creation of the Legalistic State
    av Charles R. Epp
    420,-

    It's a common complaint: the United States is overrun by rules and procedures that shackle professional judgment, have no valid purpose, and serve only to appease courts and lawyers. This book argues, however, that few Americans would want to return to an era without these legalistic policies.

  • av Lawrence Baum
    446,-

    Most Americans think that judges should be, and are, generalists who decide a wide array of cases. Nonetheless, we now have specialized courts in many key policy areas. This title presents a comprehensive analysis of this growing trend toward specialization in the federal and state court systems.

  • - Lawyers in the Shadow of Empire
    av Yves Dezalay & Bryant G. Garth
    446 - 1 147,-

    Drawing upon the insights of Pierre Bourdieu, this book explores the increasing importance of the positions of the law and lawyers in South and Southeast Asia. It argues that the situation in many Asian countries can only be fully understood by looking to their differing colonial experiences.

  • - Race, Identity, and Transnational Adoption
    av Barbara Yngvesson
    369 - 1 083,-

    Since the early 1990s, transnational adoptions have increased at an astonishing rate, not only in the United States, but worldwide. This title explores the consequences and implications of this unprecedented movement of children, usually from poor nations to the affluent West.

  • - Laws and Their Interpretation
    av Lawrence M. Solan
    701,-

    Pulling the rug out from under debates about interpretation, this title joins together learning from law, linguistics, and cognitive science to illuminate the fundamental issues and problems in this highly contested area.

  • - Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets
    av Annelise Riles
    446,-

    Argues that financial governance is made not just through top-down laws and policies but also through the daily use of mundane legal techniques such as collateral by a variety of secondary agents, from legal technicians and retail investors to financiers and academics and even computerized trading programs.

  • - City Governance in an Age of Diversity
    av Mariana Valverde
    420,-

    Toronto prides itself on being the world's most diverse city, and its officials seek to support this diversity through programs and policies designed to promote social inclusion. The author brings to light the often unexpected ways that the development and implementation of policies shape everyday urban life.

  • - The Language of Law in Hopi Tribal Court
    av Justin B. Richland
    357,-

    Explores language and interaction within a contemporary Native American legal system. This work explains how Hopi notions of tradition and culture shape and are shaped by processes of Hopi jurisprudence. It shows that Hopi jurists and litigants have called for their courts to develop a jurisprudence that better reflect Hopi culture and traditions.

  • - Professionalizing the Conservative Coalition
    av Ann Southworth
    369,-

    A portrait of the lawyers who serve the diverse constituencies of the conservative movement. It explains what unites and divides lawyers for the three major groups - social conservatives, libertarians, and business advocates - that have coalesced in recent decades behind the Republican Party.

  • - Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking
    av Sally Engle Merry
    337,-

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