Law And Society In The South

Author : John W. Wertheimer
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813188959

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Law and Society in the South by John W. Wertheimer Pdf

Law and Society in the South reconstructs eight pivotal legal disputes heard in North Carolina courts between the 1830s and the 1970s and examines some of the most controversial issues of southern history, including white supremacy and race relations, the teaching of evolution in public schools, and Prohibition. Finally, the book explores the various ways in which law and society interacted in the South during the civil rights era. The voices of racial minorities-some urging integration, others opposing it-grew more audible within the legal system during this time. Law and Society in the South divulges the true nature of the courts: as the unpredictable venues of intense battles between southerners as they endured dramatic changes in their governing values.

Author : Hyunah Yang
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781781953631

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Law and Society in Korea by Hyunah Yang Pdf

ÔAs dynamic as legal change has been in South Korea, it has also been understudied, at least until the arrival of this wonderful collection of essays. The authors, who are all leading figures in the field, demonstrate convincingly that Korean experience is relevant to many of the contemporary questions in law and society studies, including how to understand the dynamics of legal change, the role of law in development, the nature of transitional justice, and law in the postcolonial state. Every law and society scholar should read this book.Õ Ð Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago, US This book sets out a panoramic view of law and society studies in South Korea, considering the factors that have made this post-colonial war-torn country economically and politically successful. The contributors examine societal and historical conditions that are reflected in Ð or that were shaped by Ð the law, through a variety of lenses; including law and development, law and politics, colonialism and gender, past wrongdoings, public interest lawyering, and judicial reform. In dismantling the historical specificity of the way in which Korea studies are universally framed the contributions provide novel views, theories and information about South Korean law and society. Incorporating various perspectives and methodologies, and demonstrating a finely crafted application of general theory to specific issues, this compendium will prove insightful to law scholars and researchers looking to widen their perspective and broaden their knowledge on law and society in Korea. Law practitioners whose practice requires knowledge of the Korean legal system will also find plenty of information in this authoritative book.

Author : Richard L. Abel
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780814706176

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The Law and Society Reader by Richard L. Abel Pdf

A collection of 19 articles drawn from the Law and Society Review. Written by sociologists, legal scholars, and political scientists, the chapters are divided into sections on disputing, social control, norm creation, regulation, equality, ideology and consciousness, and the legal profession. Each chapter is followed by discussion questions, while methodological discussion and references have been pruned from the original articles for the purpose of this reader. Lacks an index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Kitty Calavita
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226089980

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Invitation to Law and Society by Kitty Calavita Pdf

Law and Society is a rapidly-growing interdisciplinary field that turns on its head the conventional, idealized view of the “Law” as a magisterial abstraction. Kitty Calavita’s Invitation to Law and Society brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law shapes and manifests itself in the institutions and interactions of human society, while inviting the reader into conversations that introduce the field’s dominant themes and most lively disagreements. Deftly interweaving scholarship with familiar personal examples, Calavita shows how scholars in the discipline are collectively engaged in a subversive exposé of law’s public mythology. While surveying prominent issues and distinctive approaches to the use of the law in everyday life, as well as its potential as a tool for social change, this volume provides a view of law that is more real but just as compelling as its mythic counterpart. In a field of inquiry that has long lacked a sophisticated yet accessible introduction to its ways of thinking, Invitation to Law and Society will serve as an engaging and indispensible guide.

Author : Ian Haney López
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351907002

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Race, Law and Society by Ian Haney López Pdf

Race, Law and Society draws together some of the very best writing on race and racism from the law and society tradition, yet it is not intended to merely reprint the greatest hits of the past. Instead, from its introduction to its selection of articles, this anthology is designed as a 'how-to manual', a guide for scholars and students seeking templates for their own work in this important but also tricky area. Race, Law and Society pulls together leading exemplars of the sorts of social science scholarship on race, society and law that will be essential to racial progress as the world begins to travel the twenty-first century.

Author : Susanna Delfino,Michele Gillespie,Louis M. Kyriakoudes
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780826219183

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Southern Society and Its Transformations, 1790-1860 by Susanna Delfino,Michele Gillespie,Louis M. Kyriakoudes Pdf

In Southern Society and Its Transformations, a new set of scholars challenge conventional perceptions of the antebellum South as an economically static region compared to the North. Showing that the pre-Civil War South was much more complex than once thought, the essays in this volume examine the economic lives and social realities of three overlooked but important groups of southerners: the working poor, non-slaveholding whites, and middling property holders such as small planters, professionals, and entrepreneurs. The nine essays that comprise Southern Society and Its Transformations explore new territory in the study of the slave-era South, conveying how modernization took shape across the region and exploring the social processes involved in its economic developments. The book is divided into four parts, each analyzing a different facet of white southern life. The first outlines the legal dimensions of race relations, exploring the effects of lynching and the significance of Georgia’s vagrancy laws. Part II presents the advent of the market economy and its effect on agriculture in the South, including the beginning of frontier capitalism. The third section details the rise of a professional middle class in the slave era and the conflicts provoked. The book’s last section deals with the financial aspects of the transformation in the South, including the credit and debt relationships at play and the presence of corporate entrepreneurship. Between the dawn of the nation and the Civil War, constant change was afoot in the American South. Scholarship has only begun to explore these progressions in the past few decades and has given too little consideration to the economic developments with respect to the working-class experience. These essays show that a new generation of scholars is asking fresh questions about the social aspects of the South’s economic transformation. Southern Society and Its Transformations is a complex look at how whole groups of traditionally ignored white southerners in the slave era embraced modernizing economic ideas and actions while accepting a place in their race-based world. This volume will be of interest to students of Southern and U.S. economic and social history.

Author : George B. Radics,Pablo Ciocchini
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031179181

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Criminal Legalities and Minorities in the Global South by George B. Radics,Pablo Ciocchini Pdf

This book explores how the law and the institutions of the criminal justice system expose minorities to different types of violence, either directly, through discrimination and harassment, or indirectly, by creating the conditions that make them vulnerable to violence from other groups of society. It draws on empirical insights across a broad array of communities and locales including Afghanistan, Colombia, Pakistan, India, Malawi, Turkey, Brazil, Singapore, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. It examines the challenges of protecting those at the margins of power, especially those whom the law is often used to oppress. The chapters explore intersecting, marginal identities influenced by four factors: rebuilding after violent regimes, economic interest behind the violence, entrenched cultural biases, and criminalisation of diversity. It provides scholars from the Global North with important lessons when attempting to impose their own solutions onto nations with a different history and context, or when applying their own laws to migrants from the Global South nations explored in this book. It speaks to legal and social science scholars in the fields of law, sociology, criminology, and social work.

Author : Mark Sidel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139469609

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Law and Society in Vietnam by Mark Sidel Pdf

This book is a unique analysis of the struggle to build a rule of law in one of the world's most dynamic and vibrant nations - a socialist state that is seeking to build a market economy while struggling to pursue an ethos of social equality and opportunity. It addresses constitutional change, the assertion of constitutional claims by citizens, the formation of a strong civil society and non-profit sector, the emergence of economic law and the battles over who is benefited by the economic regulation, labor law and the protection of migrant and export labor, the rise of lawyers and public interest law, and other key topics. Alongside other countries, comparisons are made to parallel developments in another transforming socialist state, the People's Republic of China.

Author : Austin Sarat,Patricia Ewick
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781118701379

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The Handbook of Law and Society by Austin Sarat,Patricia Ewick Pdf

Bringing a timely synthesis to the field, The Handbook of Lawand Society presents a comprehensive overview of key researchfindings, theoretical developments, and methodologicalcontroversies in the field of law and society. Provides illuminating insights into societal issues that poseongoing real-world legal problems Offers accessible, succinct overviews with in-depth coverage ofeach topic, including its evolution, current state, and directionsfor future research Addresses a wide range of emergent topics in law and societyand revisits perennial questions about law in a global worldincluding the widening gap between codified laws and “law inaction”, problems in the implementation of legal decisions,law’s constitutive role in shaping society, the importance oflaw in everyday life, ways legal institutions both embrace andresist change, the impact of new media and technologies on law,intersections of law and identity, law’s relationship tosocial consensus and conflict, and many more Features contributions from 38 international expert scholarsworking in diverse fields at the intersections of legal studies andsocial sciences Unique in its contributions to this rapidly expanding andimportant new multi-disciplinary field of study

Author : Christopher W. Brooks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139475297

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Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England by Christopher W. Brooks Pdf

Law, like religion, provided one of the principal discourses through which early-modern English people conceptualised the world in which they lived. Transcending traditional boundaries between social, legal and political history, this innovative and authoritative study examines the development of legal thought and practice from the later middle ages through to the outbreak of the English civil war, and explores the ways in which law mediated and constituted social and economic relationships within the household, the community, and the state at all levels. By arguing that English common law was essentially the creation of the wider community, it challenges many current assumptions and opens new perspectives about how early-modern society should be understood. Its magisterial scope and lucid exposition will make it essential reading for those interested in subjects ranging from high politics and constitutional theory to the history of the family, as well as the history of law.

Author : Riaz Tejani
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520295742

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Law and Society Today by Riaz Tejani Pdf

Law and Society Today is a problem-oriented survey of sociolegal studies, with a unique emphasis on recent historical and political developments. Whereas other texts focus heavily on criminal procedure, this book foregrounds the significant changes of the 2000s and 2010s, including neoliberalism, migration, multiculturalism, and the large influence of law and economics in law teaching, policy debates, and judicial decision-making. Each chapter presents key concepts, real-world applications, and hypothetical problems that allow students to test comprehension. With an integrated approach to theory and practice and written in an accessible tone, this text helps students recognize the dynamic forces that shape the way the law is constructed and implemented, particularly how law drives social inequality.

Author : Samson Esudu
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783668875128

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On The Relationship Between Law And Society Today by Samson Esudu Pdf

Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Law - Philosophy, History and Sociology of Law, grade: A, ( Atlantic International University ) (School of Business and Economics), course: International Relations, language: English, abstract: This essay takes a closer look on the relationship between law and society. Law and society emerge from the belief that legal regulations and decisions must be understood in its context. Both law and society have a common understanding. They are never autonomous in their context. In other words, law is deeply embedded within a society. It therefore implies that law is socially and historically constructed in order to become legally recognized procedures and institutions and besides that, law needs a society for its effectiveness and usefulness. This essay is meant to focus on the history of law and society, on the relationship of law and society, and on the different branches of law in the society together with its associates which leads to highlight the key characteristics of law and society perpectives with reference to other research contributions of the same field that hold promise for scholars of law and politics.

Author : Christopher Moore
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0802041272

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The Law Society of Upper Canada and Ontario's Lawyers, 1797-1997 by Christopher Moore Pdf

It is an authoritative and lively history of the Law Society of Upper Canada and of Ontario's lawyers, from the founding of the Society by ten lawyers in 1797, to the crises which shook the society and the legal profession in the mid-1990s.

Author : Martin Chanock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0521791561

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The Making of South African Legal Culture 1902-1936 by Martin Chanock Pdf

Martin Chanock's illuminating and definitive perspective on that development examines all areas of the law including criminal law and criminology; the Roman-Dutch law; the State's African law; and land, labour and 'rule of law' questions.

Author : John Wertheimer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0813135257

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Law and Society in the South: A History of North Carolina Court Cases by John Wertheimer Pdf