The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society

by Sarat, Austin

• ISBN13: 9780631228967
• ISBN10: 0631228969
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-07
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society is an authoritative study of the relationship between law and social interaction. Thirty-two original essays by an international group of expert scholars examine a wide range of critical questions. Authors represent various theoretical, methodological, and political commitments, creating the first truly global overview of the field. Examines the relationship between law and social interactions in thirty-three original essay by international experts in the field. Reflects the world-wide significance of North American law and society scholarship. Addresses classical areas and new themes in law and society research, including: the gap between law on the books and law in action; the complexity of institutional processes; the significance of new media; and the intersections of law and identity. Engages the exciting work now being done in England, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, South Africa, Israel, as well as "Third World" scholarship.

Author Biography

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. He was President of the Law and Society Association in 1998-1999, and is currently president of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. He is the author or editor of over 50 books, including Cultural Pluralism. Identity Politics and the Law (edited with Thomas Kearns, 1999), Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era (edited with Stuart Scheingold, 2001), Pain, Death, and the Law (2001), When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition (2001), and Human Rights: Concepts, Contests, Contingencies (edited with Thomas R. Kearns, 2001).

Table of Contents

Preface	x
List of Contributors	xiii
1 Vitality Amidst Fragmentation: On the Emergence of Postrealist Law and Society Scholarship
Austin Sarat	1	(12)
PART I PERSPECTIVES ON THE HISTORY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF LAW AND SOCIETY RESEARCH	13	(48)
2 Law in Social Theory and Social Theory in the Study of Law
Roger Cotterrell	15	(15)
3 Profession, Science, and Culture: An Emergent Canon of Law and Society Research
Carroll Seron and Susan S. Silbey	30	(31)
PART II THE CULTURAL LIFE OF LAW	61	(68)
4 The Work of Rights and the Work Rights Do: A Critical Empirical Approach
Laura Beth Nielsen	63	(17)
5 Consciousness and Ideology
Patricia Ewick	80	(15)
6 Law in Popular Culture
Richard K. Sherwin	95	(18)
7 Comparing Legal Cultures
David Nelken	113	(16)
PART III INSTITUTIONS AND ACTORS	129	(124)
8 The Police and Policing
Jeannine Bell	131	(15)
9 Professional Power: Lawyers and the Constitution of Professional Authority
Tanina Rostain	146	(24)
10 Courts and Judges
Lee Epstein and Jack Knight	170	(25)
11 Jurors and Juries
Valerie P. Hans and Neil Vidmar	195	(17)
12 Regulators and Regulatory Processes
Robert A. Kagan	212	(19)
13 The Legal Lives of Private Organizations
Lauren B. Edelman	231	(22)
PART IV DOMAINS OF POLICY	253	(180)
14 Legal Regulation of Families in Changing Societies
Susan B. Boyd	255	(16)
15 Culture, "Kulturkampf," and Beyond: The Antidiscrimination Principle under the Jurisprudence of Backlash
Francisco Valdes	271	(21)
16 The Government of Risks
Pat O'Malley	292	(17)
17 Thinking About Criminal Justice: Sociolegal Expertise and the Modernization of American Criminal Justice
Jonathan Simon	309	(21)
18 Rights in the Shadow of Class: Poverty, Welfare, and the Law
Frank Munger	330	(24)
19 Immigration
Susan Sterett	354	(15)
20 Commodity Culture, Private Censorship, Branded Environments, and Global Trade Politics: Intellectual Property as a Topic of Law and Society Research
Rosemary J. Coombe	369	(23)
21 Legal Categorizations and Religion: On Politics of Modernity, Practices, Faith, and Power
Gad Barzilai	392	(18)
22 The Role of Social Science in Legal Decisions
Jonathan Yovel and Elizabeth Mertz	410	(23)
PART V HOW DOES LAW MATTER?	433	(110)
23 Procedural Justice
Tom R. Tyler	435	(18)
24 A Tale of Two Genres: On the Real and Ideal Links Between Law and Society and Critical Race Theory
Laura E. Gomez	453	(18)
25 The Constitution of Identity: Gender, Feminist Legal Theory, and the Law and Society Movement
Nicola Lacey	471	(16)
26 Sexuality in Law and Society Scholarship
Leslie J. Moran	487	(19)
27 Law and Social Movements
Michael McCann	506	(17)
28 "The Dog That Didn't Bark": A Sociolegal Tale of Law, Democracy, and Elections
Stuart A. Scheingold	523	(20)
PART VI STUDYING GLOBALIZATION: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE	543	(98)
29 Ethnographies of Law
Eve Darian-Smith	545	(24)
30 Colonial and Postcolonial Law
Sally Engle Merry	569	(20)
31 Human Rights
Lisa Hajar	589	(16)
32 The Rule of Law and Economic Development in a Global Era
Kathryn Hendley	605	(19)
33 Economic Globalization and the Law in the Twenty-first Century
Francis Snyder	624	(17)
Index	641