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In Buried in the Heart, Erin Baines explores the political agency of women abducted as children by the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda, forced to marry its commanders, and to bear their children. The book will appeal to students and researchers of women and war, law, society and transitional justice.

For firm leaders; diversity professionals; aspiring professionals; and scholars of inequality, organizations, and the professions; in short, anyone interested in diversity in professional work, this book is an indispensable resource. It reveals the mechanisms that perpetuate inequality even as professional organizations pay lip service to creating more diverse workforces.

Indicators simplify complex issues and produce numeric evidence to guide and justify decision-making. However, we know little about the social processes constituting quantitative knowledge or its effects on public ordering practices. This book shows how technologies of quantification change our modes of knowing in subtle and often unrecognized ways.

Indicators simplify complex issues and produce numeric evidence to guide and justify decision-making. However, we know little about the social processes constituting quantitative knowledge or its effects on public ordering practices. This book shows how technologies of quantification change our modes of knowing in subtle and often unrecognized ways.

This volume provides a genealogy of global economic governance through the history of contracts, examining how and by whom they were designed and legally validated. It will appeal to lawyers, economists, and historians interested in the globalization of markets over the past century.

This book responds to debates about the place of Muslims in Western Europe, considering how people draw on practical schemas regarding others in their midst who are categorized as Muslims. These studies explore how Muslims encounter particular faces and facets of the state as they go about their lives, seeking help and legitimacy as new citizens of a fast-changing Europe.

This highly accessible volume investigates the rankings that increasingly define perceptions of countries' rule of law, governance, corruption, freedom, and democracy. Special attention is given to viewpoints in countries impacted by rankings, with authors from Romania, Albania, Colombia, Kenya and South Africa, as well as the US and the UK.

This highly accessible volume investigates the rankings that increasingly define perceptions of countries' rule of law, governance, corruption, freedom, and democracy. Special attention is given to viewpoints in countries impacted by rankings, with authors from Romania, Albania, Colombia, Kenya and South Africa, as well as the US and the UK.

Written by some of the world's leading penologists, this collection of accessible essays looks at why prison persists, why prisoner populations are rapidly rising in many countries and principles and strategies that could be adopted to radically reduce our reliance upon imprisonment.

Transnational Legal Orders offers an empirically grounded theory that reframes the study of law and society. Taking an original approach to the emergence of legal orders beyond nation-states, it shows how they originate, where they compete and cooperate, and how they settle on institutions that legally order fundamental economic and social behaviors that transcend national borders.

A collection of rich ethnographically grounded case studies which examine how ordinary people across the globe use the law as a form of protest against 'the state'. This process transforms both the law and the people using it and demonstrates that law's enabling and constraining potentials interact in unexpected ways.

This groundbreaking study explores the interface between law and religion and the sociology of religion in order to examine how an interdisciplinary interaction between the two can inform our understanding of the place of religion in the twenty-first century.

This book assembles essays on legal sociology and legal history by an international group of distinguished scholars. All have been influenced by the prolific legal historian, legal sociologist and scholar of comparative law, Lawrence M. Friedman. This volume presents a sustained examination and application of Friedman's ideas and methods.

This book brings together seven leading law and society scholars who apply an empirically grounded approach to the study of transnational legal ordering and its effects within countries. Five empirical case studies illustrate how transnational legal ordering interacts with national law and institutions in different regulatory areas.

This groundbreaking work outlines the findings of the first empirical studies of the experiences of women who wear the Islamic face veil across Europe. Expert scholars subsequently engage with the findings and explore their impact on the wider debate surrounding the veil and efforts to ban it.

This innovative volume addresses a fundamental question in the field of sentencing: which factors make a sentence more or less severe? Drawing on legal and sociological perspectives and examining mitigation and aggravation in various jurisdictions, the essays provide practical illustrations of specific factors as well as theoretical justifications.

Focussing on Uganda and Sudan, and drawing on extensive empirical research, Complementarity in the Line of Fire provides a reality check on the expectation that the ICC will catalyse domestic proceedings and prompt the reform of domestic legal systems.

This volume assesses the transitional processes under way since the early 1990s to create a stable and just society. It widens the perspective beyond the work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to include such important developments as land restitution, institutional reforms, and social and cultural initiatives.

This is a valuable study of how rights consciousness and human rights consciousness fails to emerge, even in countries that strongly advocate human rights in their external policies, such as The Netherlands. It focuses on the important and widespread paradox about the difficulties of bringing human rights home.

An assessment of the transitional processes aimed at creating a stable and just society in South Africa.

Written by some of the world's leading penologists, this collection of accessible essays looks at why prison persists, why prisoner populations are rapidly rising in many countries and principles and strategies that could be adopted to radically reduce our reliance upon imprisonment.

A collection of rich ethnographically grounded case studies which examine how ordinary people across the globe use the law as a form of protest against 'the state'. This process transforms both the law and the people using it and demonstrates that law's enabling and constraining potentials interact in unexpected ways.

This book brings together seven leading law and society scholars who apply an empirically grounded approach to the study of transnational legal ordering and its effects within countries. Five empirical case studies illustrate how transnational legal ordering interacts with national law and institutions in different regulatory areas.

This volume explores the changing legal ideas and practices that accompany, cause, and are a consequence of the judicialization of politics in Latin America. It is the product of a three-year international research effort, sponsored by the Law and Society Association, the Latin American Studies Association, and the Ford Foundation.

Human rights offer the prevailing global approach to social justice, but how they work is far less clear. Through ethnographic case studies in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, this volume of essays by leading scholars offers a rich and varied overview of human rights in practice.

Leading scholars provide a fresh theoretical look at the reasons why many legal development projects fail and explore in rich empirical detail how different societies interpret global legal reforms and the implications of this for development aid.

This book is a close study of lawyers who practise occupational safety and health law in the United States, using detailed interview and survey data to explore the roles that lawyers have as representatives of companies, unions, and OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration).

What are the points of convergence and contradiction between law and medicine as they seek to understand and respond to harm and suffering? Using empirical case studies from Europe, the Americas and Africa, this book brings together leading medical and legal anthropologists to explore this question.

This innovative volume addresses a fundamental question in the field of sentencing: which factors make a sentence more or less severe? Drawing on legal and sociological perspectives and examining mitigation and aggravation in various jurisdictions, the essays provide practical illustrations of specific factors as well as theoretical justifications.

The 2014 'Umbrella Revolution' in Hong Kong saw hundreds of thousands of demonstrators on the streets, the culmination of rising fears and frustrations about the loss of Hong Kong's core values - principally the rule of law - since 1997. Carol Jones examines how and why this resistance arose.