Explorations in Law and Society

Explorations in Law and Society
Author: Alan Hunt
Publisher: New York : Routledge
Total Pages: 381
Release: 1993
Genre: Critical legal studies.
ISBN: 9780415906951

Explorations in Law and Society transforms the relationship between law and the other social sciences. Alan Hunt, one of the foremost theorists of the sociology of law, argues against the illusion of law as a self-sufficient discipline.

Society and Law

Society and Law
Author: Ayan Hazra
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2017-08-21
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1527500853

Law is a discipline deeply affected by development and adjustment. Standards are neither made nor connected in a vacuum, and are re-adjusted and utilized for a number of specific reasons. Law and society are deeply connected with each other: society resembles the wilderness without the application of law, while law is characterised by the society in which it is implemented. The relationship between authoritative legal documents and social science has been increasingly investigated within recent years, with collaboration between researchers from the humanities, sociology, and legal disciplines, destabilizing and re-conceptualizing ways of discussing legal issues. This ever-expanding corpus of work has explored an assortment of issues, from ideas of uniformity and secularism to histories of provincial law, and from women’s activist engagements with the law to the relationship between law and the media. This book investigates a range of hypothetical issues concerning the relationship between law and society and how it plays out, specifically in fields of legitimacy and social strategy at both residential and universal levels. This will allow the reader to comprehend the hidden standards and ideas in socio-legal reviews. The central questions here are: What effect does law have on our lives? To what extent does law either control what we do or permit us to accomplish what we need? Is law indistinguishable from equity? The book will appeal to anyone working in government, general affiliations, legal firms and consultancies, and legal scholars.

Comparative Law and Society

Comparative Law and Society
Author: David Scott Clark
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1781006091

Comparative Law and Society, part of the Research Handbooks in Comparative Law series, is a pioneering volume that comprises 19 original essays written by expert authors from across the world. This innovative handbook offers both a history of the field of comparative law and society and a thorough exploration of its methods, disciplines, and major issues, presenting the most comprehensive look into this contemporary field to date. In Part I, Methods and Disciplines, contributors approach critical issues in comparative law and society from a variety of academic fields, including sociology, criminology, anthropology, economics, political science, and psychology. This multidisciplinary approach highlights the importance of addressing the variance of perspectives inherent to the field. In Part II, Core Issues, chapters offer an exploration of major legal institutions, processes, professionals, and cultures associated with particular legal subjects. Since authors utilize the perspective of at least two different legal systems, this book offers a truly thorough and wide-ranging focus. the general reader, as well as students and scholars, will find this handbook useful in their continuing explorations into the interaction between law and society. Practitioners such as lawyers and judges with an interest in global perspectives of law will also find much to admire in this innovative volume.

Law in Culture and Society

Law in Culture and Society
Author: Laura Nader
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1997-04-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780520208339

"A classic collection in the anthropology of law. While some exceptionally good descriptive work is presented, the volume is particularly valuable in providing a range of thoughtful, engaged, and empirically grounded theoretical explorations of issues in the comparative study of law and conflict."—Donald Brenneis, author of Dangerous Words

Psychological Jurisprudence

Psychological Jurisprudence
Author: Bruce A. Arrigo
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780791461525

A critical look at the relationship between law and psychology.

Law/Society

Law/Society
Author: John Sutton
Publisher: Pine Forge Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2001
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0761987053

A core text for the Law and Society or Sociology of Law course offered in Sociology, Criminal Justice, Political Science, and Schools of Law. * John Sutton offers an explicitly analytical perspective to the subject - how does law change? What makes law more or less effective in solving social problems? What do lawyers do? * Chapter 1 contrasts normative and sociological perspectives on law, and presents a brief primer on the logic of research and inference as it is applied to law related issues. * Theories of legal change are discussed within a common conceptual framework that highlights the explantory strengths and weaknesses of different arguments. * Discussions of "law in action" are explicitly comparative, applying a consistent model to explain the variable outcomes of civil rights legislation. * Many concrete, in-depth examples throughout the chapters.

Psychological Jurisprudence

Psychological Jurisprudence
Author: Bruce A. Arrigo
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780791461518

A critical look at the relationship between law and psychology.

Corruption, Social Sciences and the Law

Corruption, Social Sciences and the Law
Author: Jane Ellis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2019-04-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0429589018

The problem of corruption, however described, dates back thousands of years. Professionals working in areas such as development studies, economics and political studies, were the first to most actively analyse and publish on the topic of corruption and its negative impacts on economies, societies and politics. There was, at that time, minimal literature available on corruption and the law. The literature and discussion on bribery and corruption, as well as on the negative impact of each and what is required to address them, particularly in the legal context, are now considerable. Corruption and anti-corruption are multifaceted and multi-disciplinary. The focus now on the law and compliance, and perhaps commercial incentives, is relatively easy. However, corruption, anti-corruption and the motivations for them are complex. If we continue to discuss, debate, engage, address corruption and anti-corruption in our own disciplinary silos, we are unlikely to significantly progress the fight against corruption. What do terms such as 'culture of integrity', 'demand accountability', ‘transparency and accountability’ and ‘ethical corporate culture’ dominating the anti-corruption discourse mean, if anything, in other disciplines? If they are meaningless, what approach would practitioners in those other disciplines suggest be adopted to address corruption. What has their experience been in the field? How can the work of each discipline contribute to the work of whole and, as such, improve our work in and understanding of anti-corruption? This book seeks to answer these questions and to understand the phenomenon more comprehensively. It will be of value to researchers, academics, lawyers, legislators and students in the fields of law, anthropology, sociology, international affairs, and business.