The Routledge Handbook of Law and Society

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Synopsis
This innovative handbook provides a comprehensive, and truly global, overview of the main approaches and themes within law and society scholarship or social-legal studies. A one-volume introduction to academic resources and ideas that are relevant for today’s debates on issues from reproductive justice to climate justice, food security, water conflicts, artificial intelligence, and global financial transactions, this handbook is divided into two sections. The first, ‘Perspectives and Approaches’, accessibly explains a variety of frameworks through which the relationship between law and society is addressed and understood, with emphasis on contemporary perspectives that are relatively new to many socio-legal scholars. Following the book’s overall interest in social justice, the entries in this section of the book show how conceptual tools originate in, and help to illuminate, real-world issues. The second and largest section of the book (42 short well-written pieces) presents reflections on topics or areas concerning law, justice, and society that are inherently interdisciplinary and that are relevance to current – but also classical – struggles around justice. Informing readers about the lineage of ideas that are used or could be used today for research and activism, the book attends to the full range of local, national and transnational issues in law and society. The authors were carefully chosen to achieve a diverse and non-Eurocentric view of socio-legal studies. This volume will be invaluable for law students, those in inter-disciplinary programs such as law and society, justice studies and legal studies, and those with interests in law, but based in other social sciences. It will also appeal to general readers interested in questions of justice and rights, including activists and advocates around the world.
Copyright:
2021

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
258 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781000345957
Related ISBNs:
9780367234249, 9780429293306, 9780367694685
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Mariana Valverde, Kamari Clarke, Eve Darian-Smith, and Prabha Kotiswaran
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Reference, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy, Politics and Government, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Mariana Valverde
Edited by:
Kamari M. Clarke
Edited by:
Eve Darian Smith
Edited by:
Prabha Kotiswaran

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