Law and society reconsidered

This volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" presents a diverse array of interdisciplinary research. It contains articles by scholars from political science, sociology, and law. These articles examine the legal treatment of 'suspect' populations, the work of legal actor...

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Other Authors Sarat, Austin
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2007.
SeriesStudies in law, politics, and society ; v. 41, special issue.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849505116
184950511X
0762314605
ISSN1059-4337 ;
DOI10.1016/S1059-4337(2007)41
Physical Description1 online resource (217 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • Embracing eclecticism / Patricia Ewick
  • Dr. Strangelove (or: how I learned to stop worrying and love methodology) / Michael McCann
  • Precedents of injustice: thinking about history in law and society scholarship / Eve Darian-Smith
  • Deconstructing law and society: a sociolegal aesthetics / Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
  • Would you like theory with that? : bridging the divide between policy-oriented empirical legal research, critical theory and politics / Rosemary Hunter
  • International law and sociolegal scholarship: toward a spatial global legal pluralism / Sally Engle Merry
  • Policing and the politics of public and private in post-Katrina New Orleans / Adelaide H. Villmoare
  • Remorse and psychopathy at the penalty phase of the capital trial: how psychiatry's view of "moral insanity" helps build the case for death / Richard Weisman.