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  • Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research

    Edited by Reza Banakar, Dr Max Travers ...
    Series series Oñati International Series in Law and Society
    Socio-legal researchers increasingly recognise the need to employ a wide variety of methods in studying law and legal phenomena, and the need to be informed by an understanding of debates about theory and method in mainstream social science. The papers in this volume illustrate how a range of topics, including EU law, ombudsmen, judges, lawyers, Shariah Councils and the quality assurance industry ... Read more

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  • Law and Social Theory

    Edited by Reza Banakar, Dr Max Travers ...
    There is a growing interest within law schools in the intersections between law and different areas of social theory. The second edition of this popular text introduces a wide range of traditions in sociology and the humanities that offer provocative, contextual views on law and legal institutions.The book is organised into six sections, each with an introduction by the editors, on classical ... Read more

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    by HLA Hart ...
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    Fifty years on from its original publication, HLA Hart's The Concept of Law is widely recognized as the most important work of legal philosophy published in the twentieth century, and remains the starting point for most students coming to the subject for the first time. In this third edition, Leslie Green provides a new introduction that sets the book in the context of subsequent developments in ... Read more

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  • A Short Introduction to Judging and to Legal Reasoning

    This Short Introduction looks at judging and reasoning from three perspectives: what legal reasoning has been; what legal reasoning is from the view of judges and jurists; and what legal reasoning is from the view of a social scientist epistemologist or humanities specialist.Geoffrey Samuel begins by identifying the main institutional focal points of legal reasoning (ius, regulae iuris, ... Read more

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    Deleuze & Guattari: Emergent Law is an exposition and development of Deleuze & Guattari's legal theory. Although there has been considerable interest in Deleuze & Guattari in critical legal studies, as well as considerable interest in legality in Deleuze & Guattari studies, this is the first book to focus exclusively on Deleuze & Guattari and law. Situating Deleuze & Guattari's engagement with ... Read more

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  • Lovesick Japan

    Sex * Marriage * Romance * Law

    by Mark D. West ...
    In Lovesick Japan, Mark D. West explores an official vision of love, sex, and marriage in contemporary Japan. A comprehensive body of evidence—2,700 court opinions—describes a society characterized by a presupposed absence of physical and emotional intimacy, affection, and personal connections. In compelling, poignant, and sometimes horrifying court cases, West finds that Japanese judges ... Read more

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  • Emergencies and the Limits of Legality

    Edited by Victor V. Ramraj ...
    Most modern states turn swiftly to law in an emergency. The global response to the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States was no exception, and the wave of legislative responses is well documented. Yet there is an ever-present danger, borne out by historical and contemporary events, that even the most well-meaning executive, armed with extraordinary powers, will abuse them. This inevitably ... Read more

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  • The Pig Farmer's Daughter and Other Tales of American Justice

    Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present

    From the head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and noted professor of law and history at the University of Pennsylvania, a groundbreaking book that examines both civil and criminal court cases from the Civil War to the present, to reveal the impact of stereotyping--race, class, gender--on the American legal system.The question Mary Frances Berry asks: Whose story most strongly influences the ... Read more

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  • Inclusion and Democracy

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    Democratic equality entails a principle that everyone whose basic interests are affected by policies should be included in the process of making them. Yet individuals and groups often claim that decision making processes are dominated by only some of the interests and perspectives in the society. What are the ideals of inclusion through which such criticisms should be made, and which might guide ... Read more

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  • In Pursuit of Right and Justice

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  • Philosophical Foundations of Language in the Law

    Edited by Andrei Marmor, Scott Soames ...
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    This collection brings together the best contemporary philosophical work in the area of intersection between philosophy of language and the law. Some of the contributors are philosophers of language who are interested in applying advances in philosophy of language to legal issues, and some of the participants are philosophers of law who are interested in applying insights and theories from ... Read more

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