Five Republics and One Tradition

Pablo Ruiz-Tagle

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Like many countries around the world, Chile is undergoing a political moment when the nature of democracy and its political and legal institutions are... Lees meer

Rights for Others

Barbara Oomen

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• This is a valuable study of how rights consciousness and human rights consciousness fails to emerge, even in countries that strongly advocate human ri... Lees meer

China and Islam

Matthew S Erie

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• China and Islam examines the intersection of two critical issues of the contemporary world: Islamic revival and an assertive China, questioning the as... Lees meer

The Demographic Transformations of Citizenship

Heli Askola

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• The Demographic Transformations of Citizenship examines how attempts by contemporary states to govern demographic anxieties are shaping ideas about ci... Lees meer

The Sentimental Court

Jonas Bens

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Modern law seems to be designed to keep emotions at bay. The Sentimental Court argues the exact opposite: that the law is not designed to cast out aff... Lees meer

Immigrants at the Margins

Kitty Calavita

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• This provocative volume explores immigration law in Spain and Italy, and exposes the tension between the temporary legal status of most immigrants, an... Lees meer

Paper Tiger

Nayanika Mathur

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• A big cat overthrows the Indian state and establishes a reign of terror over the residents of a Himalayan town. A welfare legislation aimed at providi... Lees meer

Constitutionalizing Economic Globalization

David Schneiderman

• Hardcover | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Critical examination of the regime governing international economic relations in the realm of foreign investment. Lees meer

The Colonies of Law

Ronen Shamir

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• This book traces attempts of Jewish jurists-nationalists to establish a nonreligious system of Hebrew Courts in British-ruled Palestine. The book anal... Lees meer

After Abu Ghraib

Shadi Mokhtari

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Mokhtari's book examines the changes in the human rights discourse in the United States and the Middle East after the maltreatment and torture of the ... Lees meer

The Quiet Power of Indicators

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Using a power-knowledge framework, this volume critically investigates how major global indicators of legal governance are produced, disseminated and ... Lees meer

Transnational Legal Ordering and State Change

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Law can no longer be viewed through a purely national lens. Transnational legal ordering affects the boundary of the state and the market, the allocat... Lees meer

The Contentious History of the International Bill of Human Rights

Christopher N J Roberts

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Today, the idea of human rights enjoys near-universal support; yet, there is deep disagreement about what human rights actually are - their true sourc... Lees meer

Law, Violence and Sovereignty Among West Bank Palestinians

Tobias Kelly

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• As the Oslo Peace Process has given way to the violence of the second intifada, this book explores the continuing legacy of Oslo in the everyday life ... Lees meer

Transforming Gender Citizenship

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Gender quotas are a controversial policy measure. However, over the past twenty years they have been widely adopted around the world and especially in... Lees meer

Environmental Litigation in China

Rachel E Stern

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• This is a book about the improbable: seeking legal relief for pollution in contemporary China. In a country known for tight political control and inef... Lees meer

Hunting Justice

Maria Sapignoli

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• This book presents a long-term study of the activist campaign that contested the Botswana government's much-publicized removal of the San and Bakgalag... Lees meer

Fictions of Justice

Kamari Maxine Clarke

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• By taking up the challenge of documenting how human rights values are embedded in rule of law movements to produce a new language of international jus... Lees meer

Complementarity in the Line of Fire

Sarah M H Nouwen

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Of the many expectations attending the creation of the first permanent International Criminal Court, the greatest has been that the principle of compl... Lees meer

The Practice of Human Rights

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Human rights are now the dominant approach to social justice globally. But how do human rights work? What do they do? Drawing on anthropological studi... Lees meer

Indigeneity and Legal Pluralism in India

Pooja Parmar

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• As calls for reparations to indigenous peoples grow on every continent, issues around resource extraction and dispossession raise complex legal questi... Lees meer

Duties to Care

Rosie Harding

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• The world of dementia care can be a difficult one for carers to navigate, posing new challenges at every stage from diagnosis to end of life. In her g... Lees meer

Law and Precarity

Tu Phuong Nguyen

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Why do some people invoke the law (or resist it) as a way to solve their problems and achieve more stability in life, only to end up in another challe... Lees meer

Duties to Care

Rosie Harding

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• The world of dementia care can be a difficult one for carers to navigate, posing new challenges at every stage from diagnosis to end of life. In her g... Lees meer