Books in the Socio-Legal Studies series

This work seeks to provide a cultural context for the laws of tax collection, within a comparative UK/American structure. Histories of collection, laws, and enforcement, are all considered so as to enable the stories of cultures of tax collection to be told.

This book is among the first books to consider post-communist Europe from the point of view of the rule of law. This book collects articles written by specialists on the rule of law in particular countries. Interdisciplinary in approach, this book reveals the multi-layered complexity of the development of the rule of law after communism.

This collection of essays aims to introduce the research questions pursued by ethnomethodologists and conversation analysts. They offer a distinctive approach towards the study of law and legal institutions through their focus on everyday talk and action.

This volume cross-examines mainstream approaches to studying legal culture (e.g. those of Friedman and Blankenburg). It includes debates over the concept of legal culture and a variety of case studies of different legal cultures.