Books in the Cambridge Studies in Law and Society series

Indicators simplify complex issues and produce numeric evidence to guide and justify decision-making. However, we know little about the social processes constituting quantitative knowledge or its effects on public ordering practices. This book shows how technologies of quantification change our modes of knowing in subtle and often unrecognized ways.

This book responds to debates about the place of Muslims in Western Europe, considering how people draw on practical schemas regarding others in their midst who are categorized as Muslims. These studies explore how Muslims encounter particular faces and facets of the state as they go about their lives, seeking help and legitimacy as new citizens of a fast-changing Europe.

This volume provides a genealogy of global economic governance through the history of contracts, examining how and by whom they were designed and legally validated. It will appeal to lawyers, economists, and historians interested in the globalization of markets over the past century.

For firm leaders; diversity professionals; aspiring professionals; and scholars of inequality, organizations, and the professions; in short, anyone interested in diversity in professional work, this book is an indispensable resource. It reveals the mechanisms that perpetuate inequality even as professional organizations pay lip service to creating more diverse workforces.

All Americans should be deeply troubled by violations of fundamental freedoms in the US 'war on terror'. This is the only comprehensive account of efforts during the Bush and Obama administrations to defend the rule of law against egregious wrongs committed in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, torture, wiretapping, civilian casualties, and targeted killings.

As the first ethnographic study of the practice of Islamic law by Chinese Muslims (Hui), this book will appeal to students and specialists who study the state and religion, legal pluralism, and conflicts of law from the perspectives of anthropology, law and society, Asian studies, and Islamic studies.

This groundbreaking work outlines the findings of the first empirical studies of the experiences of women who wear the Islamic face veil across Europe. Expert scholars subsequently engage with the findings and explore their impact on the wider debate surrounding the veil and efforts to ban it.

Transnational Legal Orders offers an empirically grounded theory that reframes the study of law and society. Taking an original approach to the emergence of legal orders beyond nation-states, it shows how they originate, where they compete and cooperate, and how they settle on institutions that legally order fundamental economic and social behaviors that transcend national borders.

This book examines the social processes that lead to the evolution of legal norms with global constitutional standing in contemporary society. It makes an important contribution to the sociology of constitutional law, post-legal national legal processes and human rights law. This title is also available as Open Access.

This volume assembles in one place the work of scholars who are making key contributions to the anthropological approach to the UN, other global organizations and international law more broadly. This emerging literature offers new perspectives on topics of timeless interest: bureaucracy, international law, advocacy, and, ultimately, justice.

Criminal Defense in China studies empirically the everyday work and political mobilization of defense lawyers in China. It builds upon 329 interviews across China, and other social science methods, to investigate and analyze the interweaving of politics and practice in five segments of the practicing criminal defense bar in China from 2005 to 2015. This book is the first to examine everyday criminal defense work in China as a political project. The authors engage extensive scholarship on lawyers and political liberalism across the world, from seventeenth-century Europe to late twentieth-century Korea and Taiwan, drawing on theoretical propositions from this body of theory to examine the strategies and constraints of lawyer mobilization in China. The book brings a fresh perspective through its focus on everyday work and ordinary lawyering in an authoritarian context and raises searching questions about law and lawyers, politics and society, in China's uncertain future.

This original ethnographic study investigates petty corruption in Ukrainian and Belarusian bureaucracies and challenges the dominant belief that political transition causes ubiquitous corruption. It will appeal to scholars across social sciences, policymakers and a variety of anti-corruption and social justice activists.

In Buried in the Heart, Erin Baines explores the political agency of women abducted as children by the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda, forced to marry its commanders, and to bear their children. The book will appeal to students and researchers of women and war, law, society and transitional justice.

Examining how demographic changes, including low birth rates, increasing ethnic diversity, continuing immigration and population ageing are transforming ideas about citizenship and belonging, The Demographic Transformations of Citizenship provides insights into a number of interrelated and topical subjects and will appeal to readers from a variety of backgrounds.

For firm leaders; diversity professionals; aspiring professionals; and scholars of inequality, organizations, and the professions; in short, anyone interested in diversity in professional work, this book is an indispensable resource. It reveals the mechanisms that perpetuate inequality even as professional organizations pay lip service to creating more diverse workforces.

Set apart from related literature, this collection anchors trafficking debates in transnational legal theory. Whilst addressing the tensions in the implementation of the Palermo protocols, it exemplifies a labor approach to trafficking and elaborates on what this paradigm shift means in comparison to a human rights or criminal justice approach.

Duties to Care delivers a groundbreaking new socio-legal investigation into the regulatory dimensions of caring for a person with dementia. Exploring the legal aspects of dementia care by covering everything from diagnosis to end-of-life decision making, this book uses empirical data to provide original analysis of dementia care regulation.

This book offers the first extensive empirical study of global lawmaking for commerce and trade within the United Nations. It shows who makes law for the world, how they make it, and who comes out ahead.

This book is an urban ethnographic study of several Muslim women's organisations in northern India. It offers new directions for studies on the dispersed nature of women's identities in Islamic family law.

This is the first comparative analysis of law and politics in China and Indonesia, for scholars of politics, law, sociology, and history. Based on extensive archival, interview, and observational research across multiple localities in both countries, it is the most comprehensive work in decades on either country's legal system.

In each country or culture a certain type of interaction between law, power, and society contributes to the formation of a national legal doctrine, legal practice, and legal scholarship. This is a detailed comparative study of the sociology of law in France and the United States.

This volume takes a forward-looking, intellectually rich approach to understand how Engel's canonical article in law and society is shaping the discipline, and will be of interest to a wide variety of cultural and legal scholars and students.

This volume takes a forward-looking, intellectually rich approach to understand how Engel's canonical article in law and society is shaping the discipline, and will be of interest to a wide variety of cultural and legal scholars and students.

In Buried in the Heart, Erin Baines explores the political agency of women abducted as children by the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda, forced to marry its commanders, and to bear their children. The book will appeal to students and researchers of women and war, law, society and transitional justice.

This book explores the inescapable experience of injury and its implications for social inequality in different cultural settings. Authors include social theorists, social scientists and legal scholars, and the subject matter extends to the Middle East and Asia, as well as North America.

Gender quotas are a controversial policy measure but have increasingly become adopted in Europe. This book explores this phenomenon and how it has come to transform our conception of gender equality. It will appeal to researchers and students of European law and politics, gender studies, institutionalism and comparative constitutionalism.

Gender quotas are a controversial policy measure but have increasingly become adopted in Europe. This book explores this phenomenon and how it has come to transform our conception of gender equality. It will appeal to researchers and students of European law and politics, gender studies, institutionalism and comparative constitutionalism.

Constituting Religion examines how activists work to expand or challenge the reach of the shariah court system, and how these legal struggles shape popular understandings of Islam, liberal rights. This title is also available as Open Access.