Books in the The International Library of Essays in Law and Society series

the volume highlights how an ethnographic approach helps in appreciating the realities of legal pluralism, the subtle contradictions in any legal system and how legal meaning is constantly reproduced on the ground through the cultural frames and practices of peoples' everyday lives.

Intellectual property has become a dominant feature of our knowledge based economy in recent years, but how has property rights in intangible items developed? This book brings together scholarship with diverse approaches to the history of United States intellectual property protection, including trade secrets, trademark, copyright, and patent law.

A collection of articles and essays which explore the process of translation between law and social science, drawing on - the 'insider' approach which views social science as a tool that lawyers can use for legal ends, the 'outsider' approach of the law and society or sociology of law movement, and the study of the language of law.

Includes various approaches to group 'legal mobilization' politics; analysis of the judicial impact on social reform struggles; studies of individual legal mobilization in civil disputing and research in 'cause lawyering'.

What are the consequences when law's stories and images migrate from the courtroom to the court of public opinion and from movie, television and computer screens back to electronic monitors inside the courtroom itself? Addressing such issues, the essays in this volume shed new light on the future fate of law, truth and justice.