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

Assembles articles on one of the most important emerging ideas in the social psychology of conflict management - procedural justice. This book suggests that people's reactions to conflict resolution decisions in social settings are strongly influenced by their evaluations of the fairness of the procedures used to create rules and make decisions.

Democracy and the rule of law are commonly represented as complementary and indispensable components of the modern democratic state. This book looks at the competing claims of electoral and legal accountability. It brings together some of the landmarks of the relevant theory, including the work of such scholars as HLA Hart, Lon Fuller and others.

Prosecutors are powerful actors in the legal system. This volume examines how prosecutorial power is constituted through their decision-making processes, the relationships between legal changes and court actors, and the consequences of this for society. It offers insights into law in action, and how social change shapes the legal system.

Contemporary law and government are increasingly focusing on risk. Enterprise, innovation and risk-taking have become qualities valued, or even required, of current governance. In this volume, examinations and interpretations of this trend have been brought together, to make clear the range and diversity, of risk in contemporary societies.

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'.

Presents a study of intellectual property law and policy viewed through the lenses of traditional doctrinal analysis, historical perspectives, critical cultural study, and empirical examinations of intellectual property in action. This book also looks at the significance of intellectual property in processes of globalization and political economy.

Through studies of the work of Weber, Durkheim, Gurvitch, Habermas, Luhmann, Derrida, Bourdieu, Foucault, Schmitt, Neumann and others, this book addresses such topics as the changing forms of regulation, law's relations with morals and beliefs, law and democracy and prospects for the rule of law in the context of globalisation.

Focuses on relationship between law and communities. This volume examines the ways that the incarceration explosion, the disproportionate number of African-Americans in prisons and racial profiling concentrate disadvantage and make salient political challenges to prevailing understandings of relationship between crime, punishment, and governance.

Whilst immigration policy is a controversial topic in the West, states continue to receive people who settle, whether as asylum-seekers or refugees, or as family members of existing migrants. This volume brings together articles which shape the thinking in this area, covering topics ranging from illegality to refugees and asylum-seekers.

Examines rights from an inter-disciplinary law and society perspective, beginning with the premise that the basic functions of rights requires the study of rights consciousness and claiming behavior. This book is organized around the social movements and political processes which give rise to rights, by which people understand they enjoy a right.