Socio-Legal Studies

This book examines the complex legal and political significance of Taiwan’s Sunflower and Hong Kong’s Umbrella protest movements. The collection brings together some of Asia’s leading experts to address the complex questions the movements posed as regards democracy, rule of law, authority, and freed..

Law and Poverty..

Using Hurricane Katrina as a lens, this volume addresses the problems of property in the aftermath of a major disaster, covering important issues concerning property law, public policy, disaster preparedness and community recovery...

Using Hurricane Katrina as a lens, this volume addresses the problems of property in the aftermath of a major disaster, covering important issues concerning property law, public policy, disaster preparedness and community recovery...

This work brings together the best of the new research into how law relates to and informs the politics of social movements. Subjects covered include new approaches to group ’legal mobilization’ politics; analysis of the judicial impact on social reform struggles; studies of individual legal mobiliz..

Law and Society Approaches to Cyberspace..

This collection provides an accessible introduction to a range of studies by ethnomethodologists and conversation analysts about law and legal institutions...

This collection provides an accessible introduction to a range of studies by ethnomethodologists and conversation analysts about law and legal institutions...

Through an examination of criminal law, nationality law and administrative regulatory policies in Jordan, this volume demonstrates how the state uses the legal system as a tool for legitimacy, incorporating traditional social practices in order to maintain the support of certain elements of society ..

Through an examination of criminal law, nationality law and administrative regulatory policies in Jordan, this volume demonstrates how the state uses the legal system as a tool for legitimacy, incorporating traditional social practices in order to maintain the support of certain elements of society ..

This book is an essential introduction to the complex issues and debates in the field of law and film. It explores interconnections that are usually ignored between law and film...

Presenting a distinctive approach to the study of law in society and through a range of specific studies, this book seeks to integrate the sociology of law with other kinds of legal analysis and engages directly with current juristic debates in legal theory and comparative law...