Socio-Legal Studies

Through legal analysis, case studies, empirical evidence, and interviews with current officeholders, State Secretaries of State reveals how a state's chief election administrator plays a pivotal role in administering elections and ensuring that accuracy and access are promoted, enforced, and attaine..

Through legal analysis, case studies, empirical evidence, and interviews with current officeholders, State Secretaries of State reveals how a state's chief election administrator plays a pivotal role in administering elections and ensuring that accuracy and access are promoted, enforced, and attaine..

This volume offers a critical analysis and illustration of the challenges and promises of ’stateless’ law thought, pedagogy and approaches to governance - that is, understanding and conceptualizing law in a post-national condition. Confronting the ’transnational challenge’ posed to the traditional t..

The book presents examples of how literary sources can provide a supplement to our understanding of science in law. Challenging the view that law and science are completely different, insofar as the former is associated with social or communal conventions, rhetorical strategies, and local instituti..

The book presents examples of how literary sources can provide a supplement to our understanding of science in law. Challenging the view that law and science are completely different, insofar as the former is associated with social or communal conventions, rhetorical strategies, and local instituti..

Property tends to operate and to be understood as a conservative social force, but can property also be subversive? This book explores the relationship between space, subjectivity and property, in order to invert conventional socio-legal understandings of property that revolve around possession and ..

This title was first published in 2003. Tackling Militant Racism looks at problems associated with trying to define the line between freedom of expression and penalizing racially offensive expressions. Particular reference is made to the Public Order Act of 1998 and the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry...

This perceptive study investigates the different ways in which the state deals with various social groups through the mechanisms of space. By means of case studies involving three social groups within Israel's multicultural society - the Sephardim, the Bedouin-Arab minority and the ultra-Orthodox co..

Taxing Culture constructs the foundations for a social and scientific study of tax collection law. Comparing UK and American systems, it addresses issues such as the introduction of self-assessment in the UK, the move towards simplicity in legislation in both countries and the interaction of femini..

Technological change is ongoing and holds great influence over society as a whole. This volume focuses on the consequences of such change for government and the legal environment, especially in relation to business...

This book brings together international practitioners from the fields of legal education, legal theory, theatre, architecture, and the visual and movement arts. The book is evidence of how the Arts can powerfully revitalize the theory and practice of legal education. Through discussion of theory and..

This book brings together international practitioners from the fields of legal education, legal theory, theatre, architecture, and the visual and movement arts. The book is evidence of how the Arts can powerfully revitalize the theory and practice of legal education. Through discussion of theory and..