Law and Society

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Before Before

A Story of Discovery and Loss in Sierra Leone

By Betsy Small
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, African Studies, Political Science, Human Rights
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Reflecting on how building connections with others is necessary for humanity’s survival

The "Getting to Yes" Guide for ESL Students and Professionals

Principled Negotiation for Non-Native Speakers of English

By Barrie J Roberts
Subjects: English as a Second Language (ESL), Business, Business Management and Leadership, College Success, Reference, Law, Law and Society

Guiding non-native speakers of English through the international bestseller’s four-step negotiation method

Biblical Judgments

New Legal Readings in the Hebrew Bible

By Daphne Barak-Erez
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Jewish Studies
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Analyzes the classical stories of the Hebrew Bible through the lens of modern law

The Fourth Amendment

Original Understandings and Modern Policing

By Michael J. Z. Mannheimer
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law

Untangling how the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments have influenced U.S. policing

Democracy and Deliberation

The Law and Politics of Sex Offender Legislation

By Cary Federman
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Political Science, Judicial Politics

Balancing law and rights in sex offender legislation

The Truth Machines

Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India

By Jinee Lokaneeta
Subjects: Political Science, Criminology, Law, Law and Society, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Interrogation as a site of state sanctioned torture and violence

Keeping Hold of Justice

Encounters between Law and Colonialism

By Jennifer Balint, Julie Evans, Nesam McMillan, and Mark David McMillan
Subjects: Political Science, Political History, Law, Law and Society, Legal History
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Colonialism is a structural injustice embedded in law; what possibilities for justice remain?

Punishment and Political Order

By Keally McBride
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Law, Law and Society
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

An incisive, eminently readable study of the evolving relationship between punishment and social order

Archiving Sovereignty

Law, History, Violence

By Stewart Motha
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Law, Law and Society, African Studies, Asian Studies
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

An account of how courts repeat historical fictions that maintain sources of sovereign power.

Curating Community

Museums, Constitutionalism, and the Taming of the Political

By Stacy Douglas
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Law and Society, International Relations
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Reconsiders complex questions about how we imagine ourselves and our political communities

 

Common Law Judging

Subjectivity, Impartiality, and the Making of Law

By Douglas E. Edlin
Subjects: Political Science, Judicial Politics, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Comparative Law, Law and Society

Moving beyond the subjectivity-objectivity debate, Edlin presents a case for intersubjectivity

The Poverty Law Canon

Exploring the Major Cases

By Ezra Rosser & Marie Failinger
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Class Studies, Political Science, Public Policy, History, American History
Series: Class : Culture

Engaging narratives that move beyond the final opinions of the Supreme Court to reveal the people and stories behind key poverty-law cases of the last 50 years

The Impossible Machine

A Genealogy of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

By Adam Sitze
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Political Science, Human Rights, Race and Politics, African Studies

A fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s legal, political, and cultural heritage

Intimate Associations

The Law and Culture of American Families

By J. Herbie DiFonzo & Ruth C. Stern
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Political Science, Public Policy

The fluidity of modern families gives adults more personal choices, but it sometimes comes at the price of economic stability and social well-being

Snarl

In Defense of Stalled Traffic and Faulty Networks

By Ruth A. Miller
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Law, Law and Society, Cultural Studies

It is possible to imagine a theory of democracy and a constitutional history independent of human subjectivity

Prometheus Reimagined

Technology, Environment, and Law in the Twenty-first Century

By Albert C. Lin
Subjects: Political Science, Public Policy, Law, Law and Society

A call for a more thoughtful and democratic approach to technology policy and regulation

The Impossible Machine

A Genealogy of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

By Adam Sitze
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Political Science, Human Rights, Race and Politics, African Studies

A fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s legal, political, and cultural heritage

Mrs. Shipley's Ghost

The Right to Travel and Terrorist Watchlists

By Jeffrey Kahn
Subjects: Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Legal History, Law and Society

An engaging exploration of the legal and policy questions surrounding U.S. national security and international travel

Music in American Crime Prevention and Punishment

By Lily E. Hirsch
Subjects: Music, Law, Law and Society, American Studies, Cultural Studies

A critical examination of the ways in which music is understood and exploited in American law enforcement and justice

Brandishing the First Amendment

Commercial Expression in America

By Tamara Piety
Subjects: Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Law and Society, Political Science, Judicial Politics

How the First Amendment has been aggressively and inappropriately expanded by commercial entities

Federalism

Political Identity and Tragic Compromise

By Malcolm Feeley & Edward Rubin
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Judicial Politics, Law, Comparative Law, Law and Society, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law

New analysis of a fundamental concept in politics and law, by a pair of influential and respected scholars

A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents

By Samir Chopra & Laurence F. White
Subjects: Law, Intellectual Property, Law and Society, Philosophy

What legal status should be granted to artificial agents?

Understanding Torture

Law, Violence, and Political Identity

By John Parry
Subjects: Law, International Law, Law and Society, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Human Rights, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Philosophy

Legal prohibitions against torture cannot prevent state violence

Judges and Unjust Laws

Common Law Constitutionalism and the Foundations of Judicial Review

By Douglas E. Edlin
Subjects: Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Law and Society, Legal History, Comparative Law, Political Science, Judicial Politics

Are judges legally obligated to enforce an unjust law?

Mark One or More

Civil Rights in Multiracial America

By Kim M. Williams
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, African American Studies, History, African American History, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Law, Law and Society, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Urban Politics, Public Policy
Series: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity

The little-known story of the struggle to include a multiracial category on the U.S. census, and the profound changes it wrought in the American political landscape

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