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Books in the Chicago Series in Law & Soc.(Prev.LLD-Lang & Legal Discourse)(CHUP) series

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  • - International Commercial Arbitration and the Construction of a Transnational Legal Order
    by Yves Dezalay
    £29.49

    In recent years, international business disputes have increasingly been resolved through private arbitration. This book details how an elite group of transnational lawyers constructed an autonomous legal field that has given them a central and powerful role in the global marketplace.

  • - Translating International Law into Local Justice
    by Sally Engle (Professor of Anthropology Merry
    £27.49

    A study that investigates the tensions between global law and local justice. The author offers an insider's perspective on how human rights law holds authorities accountable for the protection of citizens even while reinforcing and expanding state power. This book will interest students of gender studies and anthropology.

  • - Stories from Everyday Life
    by Patricia (Clark University) Ewick
    £26.49

    This study explores the different ways people view the law. It identifies three common narratives: one is based on the idea of the law as magisterial and remote; another views the law as a game to be played; and a third narrative describes the law as an arbitrary power to be actively resisted.

  • - Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization
    by Michael W. McCann
    £35.49

    This text explores the role that litigation has played in the struggle for equal pay between women and men. It explains how wage discrimination battles have raised public legal consciousness and helped reform activists mobilize working women in the pay equity movement since the 1970s.

  • by Lawrence M. Solan
    £23.99

  • - The Ethnography of Legal Discourse
    by John M. Conley
    £27.49

  • - Activists, Bureaucrats, and the Creation of the Legalistic State
    by Charles R. Epp
    £27.49 - 74.49

    It's a common complaint: the United States is overrun by rules and procedures that shackle professional judgment, have no valid purpose, and serve only to appease courts and lawyers. This book argues, however, that few Americans would want to return to an era without these legalistic policies.

  • - Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis
    by William Haltom
    £23.99

    "Distorting the law persuasively shows how widespread media reporting of frivolous lawsuits and high settlements have led many Americans to believe we live in the land of the litigious, while the careful research and statistics that would dispel this myth have not received media attention.

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