Socio-Legal Studies - International Law & Politics

Critical Race Theory is a familiar and important strand of North American legal scholarship, but it is virtually unknown in Europe. This book aims to bring Critical Race Theory  to a European context. Outlining its development in North America, and bringing its insights to bear upon European law and..

Lawyers and Savages explores the rise and fall of legal primitivism, and its connection to the colonial encounter. Through examples such as blood feuds, communalism, ordeals, ritual formalism and polygamy, the book traces the intellectual revolution of legal anthropology. In doing so, however – and ..

Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice examines the people, the conflicts, and the mechanisms involved in producing transnational norms and institutions...

Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice examines the people, the conflicts, and the mechanisms involved in producing transnational norms and institutions...

Lawyers and the Rule of Law in an Era of Globalization focuses on the national and transnational processes transforming both the rule of law and the role of lawyers. Drawing on detailed empirical work, the contributors all examine the relationship between law, politics, and the state; focusing on la..

Too often law is still relegated to one of a number of forces or trajectories – for example the movements of military forces and commodities – that circulated and operated in Empire. This collection seeks  to investigate law’s central place in the British Empire, and the role of its agents in embedd..

Marine Environmental Governance: From International Law to Local Practice considers the relationship between international environmental law and community-based conservation in the protection of marine areas...

Marine Environmental Governance: From International Law to Local Practice considers the relationship between international environmental law and community-based conservation in the protection of marine areas...

Mediating Human Rights  addresses how the relationship between security and civil liberties has been shaped by the media...

This anthology explores the political nature of making order through policing activities across Africa, Asia and Latin America. What these contexts have in common is a plurality of order-making practices. Not one institution monopolizes the means of violence or a de facto sovereign position to do so..

This anthology explores the political nature of making order through policing activities across Africa, Asia and Latin America. What these contexts have in common is a plurality of order-making practices. Not one institution monopolizes the means of violence or a de facto sovereign position to do so..

Drawing on a postcolonial legal history of United States territorial expansionism, this book provides an analysis of the foundations of US global empire. Charles R. Venator-Santiago argues that the United States has developed three traditions of territorial expansionism with corresponding constituti..