Studies in Law, Politics, and Society

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-7623-1324-2
Verlag: Jai Press Inc.

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 464 g

Studies in Law, Politics and Society continues the tradition of annually publishing interdisciplinary research on law with a critical focus that was begun in Research in Law and Sociology and carried forward in Research in Law, Deviance and Social Control. The new title describes an expanded focus and a broader audience of legal scholars who study (a) the intersection of legal thought and consciousness and the development of legal practices and institutions and (b) the development of legal thought and practices.

The research spans a wide range of law related subjects including law and inequality, feminist jurisprudence, racial oppression and law, legal institutions and communities, and the ways law is used by political authorities or by ordinary citizens. Legal scholarship produced from an historical, comparative or ethnographic perspective is of special interest.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sarat, Austin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: SUSPECT POPULATIONS

Your Client Has a Profile: Race and National Security in Canada After 9/11
Sherene Razack

Laws Enemies: Enemy Concepts in U.S. Supreme Court Decisions
Christiane Wilkie

Move(ments) Beyond Rights: Welfare Rights in an Era of Personal Responsibility
Rose Ernst

The Electoral Capture of Gay and Lesbian Americans: Evidence and Implications from the 2004 Election
Charles Anthony Smith

PART II: LEGAL ACTORS AND LEGAL DEVICES: NEW CATEGORIES, NEW CONCEPTS

Can Prosecutors Be Social Workers?
Kay L. Levine

Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Dead Souls, Phantom Clients and the Modern Class Action
Alexandra Lahav