Socio-Legal Studies

Punishment is a phenomenon which occurs in many contexts. Discussions of punishment assume punishment is criminal punishment carried out by the State. This book contains an account of punishment which overcomes the difficulties of competing accounts and treats punishment comprehensibly to better und..

This book considers institutional racism as a problem that exists within modern societies which has its roots in the transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery. The book has four themes: the first considers the nature of institutional racism, the second theme looks at instances of institutional r..

Race, Law, Resistance is an original and important contribution to current theoretical debates on race and law...

This book offers a broad examination of the forces that have made and continue to remake the law of property. Three themes in particular - the inertial force of tradition, the reforming power of judicial and legislative activism, and the challenge of academic criticism - form the foundation of this ..

This book offers a broad examination of the forces that have made and continue to remake the law of property. Three themes in particular - the inertial force of tradition, the reforming power of judicial and legislative activism, and the challenge of academic criticism - form the foundation of this ..

A critical introduction to and analysis of the legal relationships between the state and voluntary sector, this volume provides the first available comparative analysis of state responses to voluntary sector activity in the wake of September 11th...

This book presents an analysis of the current controversies relating to freedom for religion and freedom from religion. It looks closely on select issues and contexts to provide detailed snapshots of the ways in which freedom for and from religion are conceptualized, protected, neglected, and negoti..

Pragmatism is experiencing a resurgence in law, philosophy and social science, with pragmatists seeking a consistent, comprehensive and productive understanding of social life. Renascent Pragmatism aids the reinvigoration of pragmatism as an important intellectual tradition and contributor to inquir..

This volume examines how the concept of reputation changes to reflect social, political, economic, cultural and technological developments and is a central concept in defamation law. The author conceptualizes reputation as a media construct and explains how reputation as celebrity is of great contem..

This volume examines how the concept of reputation changes to reflect social, political, economic, cultural and technological developments and is a central concept in defamation law. The author conceptualizes reputation as a media construct and explains how reputation as celebrity is of great contem..

This book employs a comparative approach to explore the nature of the disputes that arise between parents/children and education decision-makers over children's special educational needs and to consider the different methods adopted for the resolution of these disputes. In doing so it seeks to anal..

This book employs a comparative approach to explore the nature of the disputes that arise between parents/children and education decision-makers over children's special educational needs and to consider the different methods adopted for the resolution of these disputes. In doing so it seeks to anal..