Law & society books

This book brings together a group of innovative scholars examining the contemporary issue of effecting gender and...  Read More >>

Shaped by politics and policy, Gender Justice and the Law presents a collection of essays that contribute to understanding...  Read More >>

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This volume of rewritten torts opinions exposes how courts often distort conventional legal doctrine when deciding...  Read More >>

This volume of rewritten torts opinions exposes how courts often distort conventional legal doctrine when deciding...  Read More >>

A leading economist offers a radically new approach to the economic analysis of the law  Read More >>

This unique book analyses the impact of international human rights on the concept of gender, demonstrating that...  Read More >>

First published in 1997, this volume explores how we live in a society which is developing beyond human experience...  Read More >>

The book explores the rise of civil divorce in Victorian England, the subsequent operation of a fault system of...  Read More >>

First published in 1998, this volume contains essays from leading thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic on the...  Read More >>

Adopting a practical perspective, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Directives adopted by the European...  Read More >>

It took Julie Macfarlane a lifetime to say the words out loud-the words that finally broke the calm and traveled...  Read More >>

"U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's image as the ""Notorious RBG"" is familiar from a variety...  Read More >>

This open access book examines everyday practices in an asylum administration.  Read More >>

This book contributes to current debates about “queer outsides” and “queer outsiders” that emerge from tensions...  Read More >>

Sensing Justice examines the aesthetic frames that mediate the sensory perception and signification of law and justice...  Read More >>

She Took Justice proves the Black Woman liberated herself. Readers go on a journey from the invasion of Africa into...  Read More >>

She Took Justice proves the Black Woman liberated herself. Readers go on a journey from the invasion of Africa into...  Read More >>

Edited by Morten Bergsmo, Mark Klamberg, Kjersti Lohne and Christopher B. Mahony, this book comprehensively explores...  Read More >>

This volume showcases emerging interdisciplinary scholarship that captures the complex ways in which biological...  Read More >>

This book examines socio-political constructions of risk related to sexual offending behaviour by and among children...  Read More >>

In Code--born out of Maryann Corbett's years of work for the Minnesota Legislature, with a nonpartisan office that...  Read More >>

Looking at discrimination, education, environment, health and crime, this volume analyses United States Supreme...  Read More >>

This is the first book to unpack the legal and ethical issues surrounding unauthorised intimate examinations during...  Read More >>

This book argues that we must look beyond the traditional criteria of compliance and effectiveness to judge the...  Read More >>