Big Money Unleashed

Ann Southworth

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Law and Society
• The story of how the First Amendment became an obstacle to campaign finance regulation--a history that began much earlier than most imagine. Americans... Lees meer

Getting Justice and Getting Even

Sally Engle Merry

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Law and Society
• Ordinary Americans often bring family and neighborhood problems to court, seeking justice or revenge. The litigants in these local squabbles encounter... Lees meer

Speaking for the Dying

Susan P Shapiro

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Law and Society
• Seven in ten Americans over the age of age of sixty who require medical decisions in the final days of their life lack the capacity to make them. For ... Lees meer

Cooperation without Submission

Justin B Richland

• Hardcover | Engels | Chicago Law and Society
• A meticulous and thought-provoking look at how Tribes use language to engage in "cooperation without submission." It is well-known that there is a com... Lees meer

Lawyers in Practice

• Hardcover | Engels | Chicago Law and Society
• How do lawyers resolve ethical dilemmas in the everyday context of their practice? What are the issues that commonly arise, and how do lawyers determi... Lees meer

Policing Immigrants

Doris Marie Provine, Monica W Varsanyi, Paul G Lewis, Scott H Decker

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Law and Society
• The United States deported nearly two million illegal immigrants during the first five years of the Obama presidency--more than during any previous ad... Lees meer

Dealing in Virtue

Yves Dezalay, Bryant G Garth

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Law and Society
• In recent years, international business disputes have increasingly been resolved through private arbitration. The first book of its kind, Dealing in V... Lees meer

Justice in the Balkans

John Hagan

• Hardcover | Engels | Chicago Law and Society
• Called a fig leaf for inaction by many at its inception, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has surprised its critics by gr... Lees meer

Rights at Work

Michael W McCann

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Law and Society
• What role has litigation played in the struggle for equal pay between women and men? In Rights at Work, Michael W. McCann explains how wage discrimina... Lees meer

Building the Prison State

Heather Schoenfeld

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Law and Society
• The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other industrialized nation in the world--about 1 in 100 adults, or more than 2 million... Lees meer

Pulled Over

Charles R Epp, Steven Maynard-Moody, Donald P Haider-Markel

• Hardcover | Engels | Chicago Law and Society
• In sheer numbers, no form of government control comes close to the police stop. Each year, twelve percent of drivers in the United States are stopped ... Lees meer

Making Rights Real

Charles R Epp

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Law and Society
• It's a common complaint: the United States is overrun by rules and procedures that shackle professional judgment, have no valid purpose, and serve onl... Lees meer

Lawyers of the Right

Ann Southworth

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Law and Society
• A timely and multifaceted portrait of the lawyers who serve the diverse constituencies of the conservative movement, Lawyers of the Right explains wha... Lees meer

BigLaw

Mitt Regan

• Hardcover | Engels | Chicago Law and Society
• The Great Recession intensified large law firms' emphasis on financial performance, leading to claims that lawyers in these firms were now guided by b... Lees meer

Pulled Over

Charles R Epp, Steven Maynard-Moody, Donald P Haider-Markel

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Law and Society
• In sheer numbers, no form of government control comes close to the police stop. Each year, twelve percent of drivers in the United States are stopped ... Lees meer

The Making of Lawyers' Careers

Robert L Nelson

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Law and Society
• An unprecedented account of social stratification within the US legal profession. How do race, class, gender, and law school status condition the care... Lees meer

Sunbelt Capitalism and the Making of the Carceral State

Kirstine Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Law and Society
• The story of how the American South became the most incarcerated region in the world's most incarcerated nation. Sunbelt Capitalism and the Making of ... Lees meer

Big Money Unleashed

Ann Southworth

• Hardcover | Engels | Chicago Law and Society
• The story of how the First Amendment became an obstacle to campaign finance regulation--a history that began much earlier than most imagine. Americans... Lees meer

Governing the Global Clinic

Carol a Heimer

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Law and Society
• A deep examination of how new, legalistic norms affected the trajectory of global HIV care and altered the practice of medicine. HIV emerged in the wo... Lees meer

The Crucible of Desegregation

R Shep Melnick

• Hardcover | Engels | Chicago Law and Society
• Examines the patchwork evolution of school desegregation policy. In 1954, the Supreme Court delivered the landmark decision of Brown v. Board of Educa... Lees meer

Speaking of Crime

Lawrence M Solan, Peter M Tiersma, Tammy Gales

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Law and Society
• An essential introduction to the use and misuse of language within the criminal justice system, updated for a new generation. Does everyone understand... Lees meer

The Common Place of Law

Patricia Ewick, Susan S Silbey

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Law and Society
• Why do some people not hesitate to call the police to quiet a barking dog in the middle of the night, while others accept the pain and losses associat... Lees meer

Working Law

Lauren B Edelman

• Hardcover | Engels | Chicago Law and Society
• Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, virtually all companies have antidiscrimination policies in place. Although these policies represent some p... Lees meer

The Struggle for Water

Wendy Nelson Espeland

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Law and Society
• Nearly fifty years ago, the Bureau of Reclamation proposed building a dam at the confluence of two rivers in Central Arizona. While the dam would brin... Lees meer