Socio-Legal Studies

Niklas Luhmann is recognised as a major social theorist, and his treatise on the sociology of law is a classic text. For Luhmann, law provides the framework of the state, lawyers are the main human resourced for the state, and legal theory provides the most suitable base from which to theorize on th..

This ethnographic study grounded in the political economy of rural South Africa reveals how historical conditions and contemporary pressures have strained traditional justice mechanisms’ ability to deliver the high normative ideals with which they are notionally linked...

Activation Policies and the Protection of Individual Rights centers on the embedded nature of social policy within the broader legal system, whilst looking at the significance of human rights within social welfare. Its findings make noteworthy reading for sociologists within a variety of fields as w..

Activation Policies and the Protection of Individual Rights centers on the embedded nature of social policy within the broader legal system, whilst looking at the significance of human rights within social welfare. Its findings make noteworthy reading for sociologists within a variety of fields as w..

Leading experts on housing law and policy come together in this book to focus attention on the critical need for affordable housing, address key issues of concern and suggest appropriate responses for future action...

Leading experts on housing law and policy come together in this book to focus attention on the critical need for affordable housing, address key issues of concern and suggest appropriate responses for future action...

Offering an analysis of asylum processes in UK courts, this study of asylum as an aspect of globalization focuses on the role of anthropologists as expert witnesses and compares the use of social, scientific and medical evidence in decision-making...

Taking the novel position of dealing with law, classical rhetoric and feminism concurrently, this book employs Aristotle's terminology to analyze economic and literary schools of thought in the US legal academy, noting the implicit language theory underlying claims by major thinkers in each school a..

Taking the novel position of dealing with law, classical rhetoric and feminism concurrently, this book employs Aristotle's terminology to analyze economic and literary schools of thought in the US legal academy, noting the implicit language theory underlying claims by major thinkers in each school a..

At the Edge of Law presents an analysis of the changing nature of contemporary legal professionalism. It employs a methodological approach and presents a series of case studies built on original empirical research. It focuses on those operating at the margins of legal professionalism in England and ..

Exploring the role of public sector audit in emerging democracies and developing countries, this book provides an account of the relationship between the public sector auditor, the legislature and executive government. It introduces public sector audit's capacity to assess government agencies' compl..

Binding Men tells stories about men, violence and law in late Victorian England. It does so by focusing upon five important legal cases, all of which were binding not only upon the males involved but also upon future courts and the men who appeared before them. The subject matter and accessible styl..