The Handbook of Law and Society

by Austin Sarat (Editor), Patricia Ewick (Editor)

Overview

Bringing a timely synthesis to the field, The Handbook of Law and Society presents a comprehensive overview of key research findings, theoretical developments, and methodological controversies in the field of law and society.

• Provides illuminating insights into societal issues that pose ongoing real-world legal problems
• Offers accessible, succinct overviews with in-depth coverage of each topic, including its evolution, current state, and directions for future research
• Addresses a wide range of emergent topics in law and society and revisits perennial questions about law in a global world including the widening gap between codified laws and “law in action”, problems in the implementation of legal decisions, law’s constitutive role in shaping society, the importance of law in everyday life, ways legal institutions both embrace and resist change, the impact of new media and technologies on law, intersections of law and identity, law’s relationship to social consensus and conflict, and many more
• Features contributions from 38 international expert scholars working in diverse fields at the intersections of legal studies and social sciences
• Unique in its contributions to this rapidly expanding and important new multi-disciplinary field of study

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781118701461
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	06/22/2015
Series:	Wiley Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Pages:	488
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Patricia Ewick is Professor of Sociology at Clark University. She is the co-author of The Common Place of Law (1998) and Social Science, Social Policy and Law (1999). She is also former co-editor of Studies in Law, Politics and Society and former Associate Editor of the Law & Society Review.

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College and Hugo L. Black Visiting Senior Scholar at the University of Alabama School of Law. He is the author or editor of more than 90 books, including Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty (2014); When the State Kills: Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture (2002); The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society (Wiley Blackwell, 2004); and Mercy on Trial: What It Means to Stop an Execution (2007).

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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors viii

On the Emerging Maturity of Law and Society: An Introduction Patricia Ewick Austin Sarat xiii

Part I Setting the Stage 1

1 What is Law and Society?: Definitional Disputes Susan M. Sterett 3

2 Charting the "Classics" in Law and Society: The Development of the Field over the Past Half-Century Calvin Morrill Kelsey Mayo 18

Part II Approaches to the Study of Law as a Social Phenomenon 37

3 Mapping a Cultural Studies of Law Naomi Mezey 39

4 Approaches to the Study of Law as a Social Phenomenon: Legal History Kunal M. Parker 56

5 Legal Ethnographies and Ethnographic Law Susan Bibler Coutin Veronique Fortin 71

6 Just a Thought?: Instantiations and Constructions of Procedural Justice Mary R. Rose 85

Part III Institutional Processes and Actors 103

7 Lawyers and the Legal Profession Ronit Dinovitzer Bryant Garth 105

8 Courts and Judges: The Legitimacy Imperative and the Importance of Appearances Keith J. Bybee Angela G. Narasimhan 118

9 Jurors and Juries Nancy S. Marder 134

10 Upside Down and Inside Out: Regulators and Regulatory Processes in Contemporary Perspective Bronwen Morgan 150

11 Using Public Law to Shape Private Organizations Cory Coglianese Jennifer Nash 168

12 Police and Policing Jennifer D. Wood 183

Part IV Domains of Legal Policy 197

13 Domains of Policy: Law and Society Research on the Family Annie Bunting 199

14 Domains of Policy: Law and Society Perspectives on Antidiscrimination Law Donna E. Young 212

15 Domains of Policy: Law and Society Perspectives on Punishment and Social Control Keramet Reiter 228

16 Welfare Law Vicki Lens 244

17 Immigration Law and Immigrants' Lived Experiences Leisy J. Abrego 258

18 The Return of Religion: The Rise, Decline, and Possible Resurrection of Legal Secularism Nomi Maya Stolzenberg 271

19 Human Rights Heinz Klug 291

20 More-than-Human Legalities: Advocating an "Animal Turn" in Law and Society Irus Braverman 307

21 Law and Disability Katharina Heyer 322

Part V How Does Law Matter? 337

22 The Constitution of Identity: Law and Race Osagie K. Obasogie 339

23 The Constitution of Identity: New Modalities of Nationality, Citizenship, Belonging and Being Eve Darian-Smith 351

24 The Past, Present, and Future of Rights Scholarship Jeffrey R. Dudas Jonathan Goldberg-Hitter Michael W. McCann 367

25 Law and Social Movements: Old Debates and New Directions Sandra R. Levitsky 382

26 The Rule of Law and Economic Development: Global Scripts, Vernacular Translations Ritu Birla 399

27 Law and Colonialism: Legacies and Lineages Renisa Mawani 417

28 Law and Globalism: Law without the State as Law without Violence Julieta Lernaitre 433

Index 446