Books in the Journal of Law and Society Special Issues series

This collection brings together contemporary work from Britain, Germany and the United States on how law and lawyers in the Anglo-American legal system have been represented in film, particularly in the past 40 years. It seeks to provide an overview of existing work on law and film.

This special issue explores the interrelationship between global economic interests and local ecological interests, and its implications in law.

Post-crisis Trajectories of European Corporate Governance offers a critical reassessment of policy and institutional elements of corporate governance as it relates to the member states of the European Union.

Austerity and Law in Europe presents an interdisciplinary collection of essays that challenge traditional narratives of austerity. The contributions recast austerity as a historically contingent political rationality that operates through law and technocracy.

Law s Metaphors: Interrogating Languages of Law, Justice and Legitimacy presents a series of essays that reveal how metaphors for terms relating to the theory and practice of law are utilized in legal texts, literary works, and in our popular imagination.

Legal Life-Writing provides the first sustained treatment of the implications of life-writing on legal biography, autobiography and the visual history of law in society through a focus on neglected sources and those usually marginalized or ignored in legal biography and legal history, such as women and minorities. .

Reflecting a developing trend towards interdisciplinary research in economics and law, this agenda-setting volume makes the case for the economic sociology of law. It locates this novel subject in a wider socio-legal tradition.

The Challenge of Transnational Private Regulation: Conceptual and Constitutional Debates presents an extensive treatment of the constitutional dimensions of transnational private regulation, including its sources of power and modes of accountability.

Regulating Sex/Work: From Crime Control to Neo-liberalism? addresses the rise in sexual commerce and consumption by challenging traditional responses and offering a fresh approach to sex industry regulation.

This book explores the many approaches available to the study of law and literature. * An exploration of the many relationships between law and literature. * Looks at what law and literature can learn from one another. * Makes those involved in literary studies more conscious of the impact that law has had on literary history.

A study of the existing and future research on the intersections between law and materiality, leading to the illumination of both.

aeo Focuses on recent developments in constitutionalism and governance. aeo Highly relevant to ongoing debates on devolution and international in the UK and elsewhere. aeo Recognises the multi--layered nature of these trends and combines levels of analysis that are usually separated in the existing literature.

The Human Rights Act 1998 will come into force in the year 2000. This volume explores the significance of this event.

Includes essays which celebrate 21 years of research by the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies in Oxford. This book brings together the reflections of leading scholars from around the world on the life and work of the Oxford Centre. It records how the pioneering studies carried out by the Centre have become a bench-mark for researchers.

The essays in this volume take on the challenge of explaining the current formation of the relation between sovereignty, law and violence in what is termed 'Democracy's Empire'.

This collection examines the case for affirmative action in the UK in relation to employment, higher education, the legal profession, the judiciary, political representation and minority language rights. Draws on experience of affirmative action in the United States, Canada and Germany.

* Explores the impact that increasing pressure on state spending onlegal services, and lower universal welfare provision have on the concept of "justice for all". * Draws together original research from leading contributors to debates about access to justice from Australia, the United States and Europe.

In this prestigious edited collection, an international group of leading contributors to the law of regulation take stock of the erosion of belief in centralised planning and command and control regulation which has accompanied the collapse of communism. They explore the new directions in regulatory theory which must now be pursued.

This book seeks to examine the impact of the Human Rights Act legislation from the viewpoint of judges, lawyers, civil libertarians, politicians and academics. * Investigation of the Human Rights Act since it came into force in 2000. * Contributors include Sir Stephen Sedley, Thomas Mullen, Roger Smith and Lord Lester of Herne Hill.

In this volume the authors and editors explore the growing (particularly state) interest in the way in which it (the state) polices, and ought to police, families failing in their responsibilities. In considering this subject we also reflect on the responsibilities the state has or ought to bear for families.