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This book is a cross-national study of lawyers who devote themselves to serving political cuases. The essays collected here bring togehter the work of eighteen scholars, each of whom contributes a valuable portrait of lawyers who sacrifice financial advantage to use their professional skills to promote their vision of a more just society.

This book challenges the assumption that the post-war period is hallmarked by the triumph of the rule of law. The author focuses on adjudication as a social practice and as a set of governmental techniques. He explores how the relationship between law, government and society has changed in the course of history.

The author draws on theoretical and empirical studies in jurisprudence, linguistics, economics, politics, and sociology to understand and evaluate the formation and uses of rules in financial services regulation. The main case study, examining the use of self-regulation in the financial services sector, complements the analysis.

Cause lawyering is law as practised by the politically motivated and those devoted to moral activism. This text examines the concept in a global context, exploring ways in which it influences and is influenced by the disaggregation of state power associated with democratization, and how democratization empowers lawyers who want to effect change.

The small claims procedure is seen as a way of tackling the crisis in civil justice. This book reports on the research on small claims procedures. It also includes discussion of interviews with litigants, including many who struggled to gain payment of court judgements. This book is part of the "Socio-Legal Studies" series.

Increasing numbers of people must now decide how to structure wills and bequeath money and possessions across generations. This volume offers an empirical study of 800 English wills, and uses the material to reflect upon what it tells us of contemporary family and kin relationships.

This is a study of the use of non-statutory rules in government, and their potential and limitations. It examines how rule-use can be assessed, the success of rule-use, the analysis in rule-making, and the particular problems of governing with rules within the European Community.