Socio-Legal Studies

In this book leading experts discuss the public nature of private property and challenge traditional conceptions of private property. They present a range of views on both the meaning of private property, and on the ability, some might say the requirement, of the state to regulate it. What rights to..

This title was first published in 2001. The aim of the book is to provide an historical and a bottom up account on the land question following the fall of communist rule. It compares national and local attempts to reform land ownership and agricultural production; in particular, the way in which lan..

Among the first to consider post-communist Europe from the point of view of the rule of law, this book collects articles written by specialists on the rule of law in particular countries. Interdisciplinary in approach, this book reveals the complexity of the development of the rule of law after com..

Among the first to consider post-communist Europe from the point of view of the rule of law, this book collects articles written by specialists on the rule of law in particular countries. Interdisciplinary in approach, this book reveals the complexity of the development of the rule of law after com..

Assessing the treatment of women under Iran’s justice system, this book offers a rare analysis of women’s situation in a system of justice that adheres to Islam’s Sacred Law. It also demonstrates that the Sacred Law is one of the most complex, detailed and comprehensive legal theories that Islam ha..

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This title was first published in 2001. This book examines the contributions of national context and organizational context on understanding of sexual harassment laws within organizations, using a cross-national design based on the USA and Austria...

Critical legal geography is practised by an increasing number of scholars in various disciplines, but it has not had the benefit of an overarching theoretical framework that might overcome its currently rather ad hoc character. The Spatial, the Legal and the Pragmatics of World-Making remedies this ..

Customary law and so called ‘traditional authorities’ continue to play vital roles in many African societies today. This book tackles the problem of how the state deals with the paradox of having to integrate customary law and traditional authorities that are based on their own logics of ‘law’, ‘leg..

The Subject of Prostitution offers a distinctive analysis of the links between prostitution and social theory in order to advance a critical analysis of the relationship of law to sex work. The book analyzes contemporary citizenship discourse and the law’s ability to meet the competing demands of em..

This book brings together a distinguished, interdisciplinary group of scholars who offer a set of frameworks and a critical language for examining conventional understandings of catastrophe and the catastrophic. Framed around the ideas of Agamben, Kant and Benjamin, the volume demonstrates how the q..

The book provides a comprehensive comparison between US and European approaches to tobacco law, covering advertising, psychology, ethics, economics and health in addition to the central debate about the litigation and regulation of tobacco. It identifies the need for control and the many challenges ..