Research Handbook on Law and Psychology

Research Handbook on Law and Psychology
Author: Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2024-08-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1800881924

This Research Handbook presents a kaleidoscopic view of law and psychology as a multidisciplinary field of study and explores major themes at the intersection of these two scholarly traditions. Adopting an expansive approach, it examines important topics including theories of justice, morality, and legitimacy; social norms; system justification theory; and the role of emotion within law.

Research Handbook on Law and Emotion

Research Handbook on Law and Emotion
Author: Susan A. Bandes
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2021-04-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1788119088

This illuminating Research Handbook analyses the role that emotions play and ought to play in legal reasoning and practice, rejecting the simplistic distinction between reason and emotion.

Research Handbook on Environmental Crimes and Criminal Enforcement

Research Handbook on Environmental Crimes and Criminal Enforcement
Author: Susan L. Smith
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2024-07-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1035309513

This Research Handbook thoroughly examines the difficult and rapidly expanding problem of national, transnational, and international environmental crimes, including air and water pollution, unlawful mining and timber harvesting, and transnational trafficking of endangered species. It provides an understanding of cutting-edge empirical and theoretical research on these crimes and their legal prosecution.

Research Handbook on Modern Legal Realism

Research Handbook on Modern Legal Realism
Author: Shauhin Talesh
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2021-03-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1788117778

This insightful Research Handbook provides a definitive overview of the New Legal Realism (NLR) movement, reaching beyond historical and national boundaries to form new conversations. Drawing on deep roots within the law-and-society tradition, it demonstrates the powerful virtues of new legal realist research and its attention to the challenges of translation between social science and law. It explores an impressive range of contemporary issues including immigration, policing, globalization, legal education, and access to justice, concluding with and examination of how different social science disciplines intersect with NLR.

Research Handbook on Legal Evolution

Research Handbook on Legal Evolution
Author: Wojciech Zaluski
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 515
Release: 2024-03-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 180392182X

Adopting an evolutionary perspective, this Research Handbook presents novel and cutting-edge insights into the interdisciplinary field of legal evolution. Engaging with various scientific approaches, it provides a versatile analysis of legal evolution, examining the field as a whole as well as in the context of specific branches of law.

Research Handbook on Law, Society and Ageing

Research Handbook on Law, Society and Ageing
Author: Sue Westwood
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 615
Release: 2024-08-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1803925299

In an era where the population is rapidly ageing, this timely Research Handbook addresses the wide-ranging social and legal issues concerning older people.

Research Handbook on Law and Technology

Research Handbook on Law and Technology
Author: Bartosz Brożek
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 535
Release: 2023-12-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1803921323

This thorough and incisive Research Handbook reconstructs the scholarly discourses surrounding the field of law and technology, discussing the salient legal, governance and societal problems stemming from the use of different technologies, and how they should be treated under various legal frameworks. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Research Handbook on Legal Semiotics

Research Handbook on Legal Semiotics
Author: Anne Wagner
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 517
Release: 2023-11-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1802207260

This comprehensive Research Handbook explores the wide variety of work conducted in legal semiotics to provide a broad understanding of how the law works through signs and symbols. Demonstrating that law is a strategical system of fluctuating signs, contributors critically analyse the ever-evolving conceptualisations of law and legal discourse.

Research Handbook on Behavioral Law and Economics

Research Handbook on Behavioral Law and Economics
Author: Joshua C. Teitelbaum
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2018-03-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1849805687

The field of behavioral economics has contributed greatly to our understanding of human decision making by refining neoclassical assumptions and developing models that account for psychological, cognitive, and emotional forces. The field’s insights have important implications for law. This Research Handbook offers a variety of perspectives from renowned experts on a wide-ranging set of topics including punishment, finance, tort law, happiness, and the application of experimental literatures to law. It also includes analyses of conceptual foundations, cautions, limitations and proposals for ways forward.

Research Handbook on Law and Ethics in Banking and Finance

Research Handbook on Law and Ethics in Banking and Finance
Author: Costanza A. Russo
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2019
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1784716545

The global financial crisis evidenced the corrosive effects of unethical behaviour upon the banking industry. The recurrence of misbehaviour in the financial sector, including fraud and manipulations of market indices, suggests the need to establish a banking culture that conforms to the highest standards of ethical and professional behaviour. This Research Handbook on Law and Ethics in Banking and Finance focuses on the role that law should play and the effectiveness of newly introduced regulations and supervisory actions as a driver for ethical conduct so as to reconnect the interests of bankers and financiers with the interests of society.