Families, Politics, and the Law

• Hardcover | Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
• This study examines the recent political shift from interventionist policies on family welfare to one of freedom from interference. The contributors d... Lees meer

Compliance: Regulation and Environment

Bridget M Hutter

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
• The concept of compliance is central to government attempts to regulate economic activities. In this volume Hutter investigates the notion of complian... Lees meer

Housing the Homeless

Ian Loveland

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
• The homelessness legislation has prompted a vast amount of litigation; its many discretionary terms are encrusted with a substantial growth of case la... Lees meer

Realistic Socio-Legal Theory

Brian Tamanaha

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
• How might the social sciences best be employed in the study of law, especially in light of today's legal climate of anti-foundationalism? Realistic So... Lees meer

A General Jurisprudence of Law and Society

Brian Z Tamanaha

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
• A theoretical and sociological exploration of the relationship between law and society, this book constructs an approach to law that integrates legal ... Lees meer

Regulating Workplace Safety

Neil Gunningham, Neil Cunningham, Richard Johnstone

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
• This book addresses the question: how can law influence the internal self-regulation of organizations in order to make them more responsive to occupat... Lees meer

Environment and Enforcement

Keith Hawkins

• Paperback | Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
• Most studies of law enforcement deal with police work, and many are concerned with underenforcement of selective enforcement as problems. This book sh... Lees meer

World Jury Systems

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
• This volume presents in-depth coverage of the jury systems of Australia, England, Canada, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, S... Lees meer

Coercion to Compromise

Mary E Vogel

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
• Plea bargaining is one of the most striking features of American courts. The vast majority of criminal convictions today are produced through bargaine... Lees meer

Law as a Social System

Niklas Luhmann

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
• In this volume, Niklas Luhmann, the leading exponent of systems theory, explores its implications for our understanding of law. The volume provides a ... Lees meer

Law as Last Resort

Keith Hawkins

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
• In almost all legal disputing, formalities are employed as a last resort. This book presents a new theory of decision-making, exploring the conditions... Lees meer

Lawyers and the Rise of Western Political Liberalism

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
• This new volume originated in a collective project aimed at developing an alternative theoretical approach to the market monopoly theory that currentl... Lees meer

Just Lawyers

Christine Parker

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
• Just Lawyers proposes a model for the regulation and organization of lawyers, guided by an ideal of access to justice. It is grounded in empirical ana... Lees meer

Law as Last Resort

Keith Hawkins

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
• In almost all legal disputing, formalities are employed as a last resort. This book presents a new theory of decision-making, exploring the conditions... Lees meer

Accountability

A C L Davies

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
• Many government bodies relate to each other through 'contracts'. But these contracts are not, in general, regulated or enforced by the law. Drawing on... Lees meer

Small Claims in the County Courts in England and Wales

John Baldwin

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
• The small claims procedure is now seen as a convenient way to tackle the current crisis in civil justice, and with a massive increase in the small cla... Lees meer

The Uses of Discretion

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
• Discretion is a pervasive phenomenon in legal systems. It is of concern to lawyers because it can be a force for advancing the broad purposes of law a... Lees meer

Rules and Regulators

Julia Black

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
• Julia Black's book is the first authoritative study of rulemaking in one of the most important areas of economic life: financial services. She draws o... Lees meer

Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era

Austin Sarat

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
• This volume brings together contextually sensitive, cross-cultural, and comparative research that analyzes the ways in which cause lawyering is influe... Lees meer

Law's Community

Roger Cotterrell

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
• This important collection of essays by a leading theorist attempts to re-locate the relationship between the traditional concerns of legal theory and ... Lees meer

Wills, Inheritance, and Families

Janet Finch, Jennifer Mason, Judith Masson

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
• The issue of how assets are distributed after death is of increasing significance for larger numbers of people. In this original and path-breaking stu... Lees meer

Coercion to Compromise

Mary E Vogel

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
• Plea bargaining is one of the most striking features of American courts. The vast majority of criminal convictions today are produced through bargaine... Lees meer

The Power of Judges

Carlo Guarnieri, Patrizia Pederzoli

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
• This book argues that three elements affect the political significance of judicial decisions. First is the status of judges (the way they are recruite... Lees meer

Medical Discipline

Russell G. (Lecturer, Department of Criminology, Lecturer, Depar

• Hardcover | Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
• This book looks at the way in which the medical profession in Britain regulates itself. It evaluates the General Medical Council's system of professio... Lees meer