Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, and Law
Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, and Law

Author: Mary Nell Trautner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-01-11

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1316992985

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A central theme of law and society is that people's ideas about law and the decisions they make to mobilize law are shaped by community norms and cultural context. But this was not always an established concept. Among the first empirical pieces to articulate this theory was David Engel's 1984 article, 'The Oven Bird's Song: Insiders, Outsiders, and Personal Injuries in an American Community'. Over thirty years later, this article is now widely considered to be part of the law and society canon. This book argues that Engel's article succeeds so brilliantly because it integrates a wide variety of issues, such as cultural transformation, attitudes about law, dispute processing, legal consciousness, rights mobilization, inclusion and exclusion, and inequality. Contributors to this volume explore the influence of Engel's important work, engaging with the possibilities in its challenging hypotheses and provocative omissions related to the legal system and legal process, class conflict and difference, and law in other cultures.

Law and Community in Three American Towns
Law and Community in Three American Towns

Author: Carol J. Greenhouse

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780801481697

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Carol J. Greenhouse, Barbara Yngvesson, and David M. Engel analyze attitudes toward the law as a way of commentating on major American myths and ongoing changes in American society.

The Law Multiple
The Law Multiple

Author: Irene van Oorschot

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-03-04

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1108494803

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Where, when, and how is the law practiced? An investigation of how truths are made in the legal system.

The Practice and Problems of Transnational Counter-Terrorism
The Practice and Problems of Transnational Counter-Terrorism

Author: Fiona de Londras

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-02-24

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1009254987

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The attacks of 9/11 kickstarted the development of a pervasive and durable transnational counter-terrorism order. This has evolved into a vast institutional architecture with direct effects on domestic law around the world and a number of impacts on everyday life that are often poorly understood. States found, fund and lead institutions inside and outside the United Nations that develop and consolidate transnational counter-terrorism through hard and soft law, strategies, capacity building and counter-terrorism 'products'. These institutions and laws underpin the expansion of counter-terrorism, so that new fields of activity get drawn into it, and others are securitised through their reframing as counter-terrorism and 'preventing and countering extremism'. Drawing on insights from law, international relations, political science and security studies, this book demonstrates the international, regional, national and personal impacts of this institutional and legal order. Fiona de Londras demonstrates that it is expansionary, rights-limiting and unaccountable.

Injury and Injustice
Injury and Injustice

Author: Anne Bloom

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-03-15

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1108349803

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This book addresses some of the most difficult and important debates over injury and law now taking place in societies around the world. The essays tackle the inescapable experience of injury and its implications for social inequality in different cultural settings. Topics include the tension between physical and reputational injuries, the construction of human injuries versus injuries to non-human life, virtual injuries, the normalization and infliction of injuries on vulnerable victims, the question of reparations for slavery, and the paradoxical degradation of victims through legal actions meant to compensate them for their disabilities. Authors include social theorists, social scientists and legal scholars, and the subject matter extends to the Middle East and Asia, as well as North America.

Entangled Domains
Entangled Domains

Author: Rabiat Akande

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-05-31

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1316511553

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This book provides the first account of the sustained entanglement of law, religion, and empire in Northern Nigeria.

Health as a Human Right
Health as a Human Right

Author: Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-12-17

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 110848364X

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An in-depth critical analysis of the effects of the right to health in Brazil over the past thirty years.

Five Republics and One Tradition
Five Republics and One Tradition

Author: Pablo Ruiz-Tagle

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-10-21

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1108871984

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Like many countries around the world, Chile is undergoing a political moment when the nature of democracy and its political and legal institutions are being challenged. Senior Chilean legal scholar and constitutional historian Pablo Ruiz-Tagle provides an historical analysis of constitutional change and democratic crisis in the present context focused on Chilean constitutionalism. He offers a comparative analysis of the organization and function of government, the structure of rights and the main political agents that participated in each stage of Chilean constitutional history. Chile is a powerful case study of a Latin American country that has gone through several threats to its democracy, but that has once again followed a moderate path to rebuild its constitutional republican tradition. Not only the first comprehensive study of Chilean constitutional history in the English language from the nineteenth-century to the present day, this book is also a powerful defence of democratic values.

The Uncounted
The Uncounted

Author: Sara L.M. Davis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-06-11

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1108665713

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In the global race to reach the end of AIDS, why is the world slipping off track? The answer has to do with stigma, money, and data. Global funding for AIDS response is declining. Tough choices must be made: some people will win and some will lose. Global aid agencies and governments use health data to make these choices. While aid agencies prioritize a shrinking list of countries, many governments deny that sex workers, men who have sex with men, drug users, and transgender people exist. Since no data is gathered about their needs, life-saving services are not funded, and the lack of data reinforces the denial. The Uncounted cracks open this and other data paradoxes through interviews with global health leaders and activists, ethnographic research, analysis of gaps in mathematical models, and the author's experience as an activist and senior official. It shows what is counted, what is not, and why empowering communities to gather their own data could be key to ending AIDS.

Policing for Peace
Policing for Peace

Author: Matthew Nanes

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-11-18

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1108839053

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In divided societies, representation in the police that empowers previously-marginalized groups reduces crime, builds trust, and improves citizen-state relations.