Law, Justice and Power: Law, Justice and Power
About the Book Series
To speak about law is always and necessarily to be engaged in a discourse about both justice and power. While law's relationship to justice is everywhere contingent and uncertain, law completely divorced from power is unthinkable. And, while law need not be virtuous to be law, if it had no effect in the world it could hardly be said to merit the name law. Recognizing these facts, the series on Law, Justice and Power takes a broad view of legal scholarship.It publishes books by social scientists, humanists and legal academics which connect an understanding of culture's normative ideals with examination of the complex ways that law works in the world, insist that justice is inseparable from social practices and analyze law as one form of power, one way of constituting, controlling and changing the social world. It focuses on state law as well as law in communities and cultural practices and on identities and their articulation in and through law, on law's power in the taken-for-granted world, on its role in the complex construction of nation and national power and on global developments which today destabilize and transform the meaning and significance of law. The series invites innovative scholarship that crosses disciplinary as well as geographic and temporal boundaries.
Law, Society and Corruption: Lessons from the Central Asian Context
1st Edition
By Rustamjon Urinboyev, Måns Svensson
July 04, 2024
This book presents new socio-legal perspectives and insights on the social life of corruption and anticorruption in authoritarian regimes. This book takes up the case of Uzbekistan—an authoritarian regime in Central Asia and one of the most corrupt countries in the world according to Transparency ...
The Time of Catastrophe: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Age of Catastrophe
1st Edition
By Christopher Dole, Robert Hayashi, Andrew Poe, Austin Sarat
June 07, 2019
If catastrophes are, by definition, exceptional events of such magnitude that worlds and lives are dramatically overturned, the question of timing would pose a seemingly straightforward, if not redundant question. The Time of Catastrophe demonstrates the analytic productiveness of this question, ...
The Political Uncommons: The Cross-Cultural Logic of the Global Commons
1st Edition
By Kathryn Milun
October 18, 2018
In The Political Uncommons, Kathryn Milun presents a cultural history of the global commons: those domains, including the atmosphere, the oceans, the radio frequency spectrum, the earth's biodiversity, and its outer space, designated by international law as belonging to no single individual or ...
Social Citizenship in the Shadow of Competition: The Bureaucratic Politics of Regulatory Justification
1st Edition
By Bronwen Morgan
November 30, 2017
Social Citizenship in the Shadow of Competition explores how economic concepts and tools are reshaping regulatory law. Building on studies that link law - both institutionally and discursively - to the legitimation of economic neo-liberalism, the book charts lawmakers' attempts to justify social ...
Taking Space Seriously: Law, Space and Society in Contemporary Israel
1st Edition
By Issachar Rosen-Zvi
May 11, 2017
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 ...
Renascent Pragmatism: Studies in Law and Social Science
1st Edition
Edited
By Alfonso Morales
May 10, 2017
Pragmatism is experiencing a resurgence in law, philosophy and social science, with pragmatists seeking a consistent, comprehensive and productive understanding of social life. In its four sections Renascent Pragmatism aids the reinvigoration of pragmatism as an important intellectual tradition and...
Islam in American Prisons: Black Muslims' Challenge to American Penology
1st Edition
By Hamid Reza Kusha
November 24, 2016
The growth of Islam both worldwide and particularly in the United States is especially notable among African-American inmates incarcerated in American state and federal penitentiaries. This growth poses a powerful challenge to American penal philosophy, structured on the ideal of rehabilitating ...
The Logic of Consent: The Diversity and Deceptiveness of Consent as a Defense to Criminal Conduct
1st Edition
By Peter Westen
November 17, 2016
The Logic of Consent analyzes the varied nature of consent arguments in criminal law and examines the confusions that commonly arise from the failure of legislatures, courts and commentators to understand them. Peter Westen skillfully argues that the conceptual aspect accounts for a significant ...
Against the Death Penalty: International Initiatives and Implications
1st Edition
Edited
By Jon Yorke
November 10, 2016
This edited volume brings together leading scholars on the death penalty within international, regional and municipal law. It considers the intrinsic elements of both the promotion and demise of the punishment around the world, and provides analysis which contributes to the evolving abolitionist ...
Aristotle's Ethics and Legal Rhetoric: An Analysis of Language Beliefs and the Law
1st Edition
By Frances J. Ranney
November 10, 2016
Taking the novel position of dealing with law, classical rhetoric and feminism concurrently, this book considers the effects of beliefs about language on those who attempt to theorize about and use law to accomplish practical and political purposes. The author employs Aristotle's terminology to ...
Pragmatism and Law: From Philosophy to Dispute Resolution
1st Edition
By Michal Alberstein
November 10, 2016
Pragmatism and Law provides a textual reading of the American legal discourse, as it unfolds through various genres of pragmatism, which evolve and transform during the twentieth century. The historical narrative, which the book weaves, traces the transformation of the pragmatic idea from the ...
Spatializing Law: An Anthropological Geography of Law in Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann
November 02, 2016
Spatializing Law: An Anthropological Geography of Law in Society focuses on law and its location, exploring how spaces are constructed on the terrestrial and marine surface of the earth with legal means in a rich variety of socio-political, legal and ecological settings. The contributors explore ...