Leading Works In Law And Social Justice

Author : Faith Gordon,Daniel Newman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000367300

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Leading Works in Law and Social Justice by Faith Gordon,Daniel Newman Pdf

This book assesses the role of social justice in legal scholarship and its potential future development by focusing upon the ‘leading works’ of the discipline. The rise of socio-legal studies over recent decades has led to a more interdisciplinary approach to the study of law, which prioritises placing law into its wider social context. Recognising the role that culture, economics and politics play in the development of law is important in order to fully understand the position and impact of law in society. Innovative and written in an engaging way, this collection includes leading and emerging scholars from across the world. Each contributor has been invited to select and analyse a ‘leading work’, a publication which has for them shed light on the way that law and social justice are interlinked and has influenced their own understanding, scholarship, advocacy, and, in some instances, activism. The book also includes a specially written foreword and afterword, which critically reflect upon the contributions of the 'leading works' to consider the role that social justice has played in law and legal education and the likely future path for social justice in legal scholarship. This book will be an essential resource for all those working in the areas of social justice, socio-legal studies and legal philosophy. It will be of wider interest to the social sciences more generally.

Author : Faith Gordon,Daniel Newman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09
Category : Law and the social sciences
ISBN : 0367714558

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Leading Works in Law and Social Justice by Faith Gordon,Daniel Newman Pdf

This book assesses the role of social justice in legal scholarship and its potential future development by focusing upon the 'leading works' of the discipline. The rise of socio-legal studies over recent decades has led to a more interdisciplinary approach to the study of law, which prioritises placing law into its wider social context. Recognising the role that culture, economics and politics play in the development of law is important in order to fully understand the position and impact of law in society. Innovative and written in an engaging way, this collection includes leading and emerging scholars from across the world. Each contributor has been invited to select and analyse a 'leading work', a publication which has for them shed light on the way that law and social justice are interlinked and has influenced their own understanding, scholarship, advocacy, and, in some instances, activism. The book also includes a specially written foreword and afterword, which critically reflect upon the contributions of the 'leading works' to consider the role that social justice has played in law and legal education and the likely future path for social justice in legal scholarship. This book will be an essential resource for all those working in the areas of social justice, socio-legal studies and legal philosophy. It will be of wider interest to the social sciences more generally.

Author : Joseph Keim Campbell,Michael O'Rourke,David Shier
Publisher : Topics in Contemporary Philoso
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015062837763

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Law and Social Justice by Joseph Keim Campbell,Michael O'Rourke,David Shier Pdf

Leading scholars consider a variety of philosophical issues in law and social justice, from foundational concepts to specific legal problems.

Author : Daniel Newman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000915938

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Leading Works on the Legal Profession by Daniel Newman Pdf

This collection provides an innovative and engaging way of assessing the development of legal profession scholarship and its potential future development by presenting an analysis of the ‘leading works’ of the discipline. The book was written by prominent and emerging international scholars in the field, with each contributor having been invited to select and analyse a work which has for them shed light on what the legal profession is and what it does. The chapters explore the effect that the chosen work has had upon legal profession scholarship as a whole, both within particular jurisdictions and internationally. Contributors also reflect upon the likely implications of the leading work on the future study of and application to the legal profession. They relate the works to recent and contemporary developments in law and access to justice, such as the rise of technology, impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and issues of funding, to highlight the interpretative value of such scholarship. Presenting an overview and introduction to the field of legal profession research, the collection will be required reading for researchers looking to study any aspect of the legal profession. It will also prove compelling for a wide variety of access to justice and justice system research projects. The book will also appeal to scholars interested in legal ethics.

Author : Russell Sandberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429684418

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Leading Works in Law and Religion by Russell Sandberg Pdf

Leading Works in Law and Religion brings together leading and emerging scholars in the field from the United Kingdom and Ireland. Each contributor has been invited to select and analyse a ‘leading work’, which has for them shed light on the way that Law and Religion are intertwined. The chapters are both autobiographical, reflecting upon the works that have proved significant to contributors, and also critical analyses of the current state of the field, exploring in particular the interdisciplinary potential of the study of Law and Religion. The book also includes a specially written introduction and conclusion, which critically comment upon the development of Law and Religion over the last 25 years and likely future developments in light of the reflections by contributors on their chosen leading works.

Author : Bharat Malkani
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781529230734

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Racial Justice and the Limits of Law by Bharat Malkani Pdf

This book examines law’s troubled relationship with racial justice. Both a lawyer’s guide to anti-racism and an anti-racist’s guide to legal action, it unites these perspectives to help both groups understand how to use the law to tackle racial injustices.

Author : Jacqueline Kinghan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509938117

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Lawyers, Networks and Progressive Social Change by Jacqueline Kinghan Pdf

Written by a lawyer who works at the intersection between legal education and practice in access to justice and human rights, this book locates, describes and defines a collective identity for social justice lawyering in the UK. Underpinned by theories of cause lawyering and legal mobilisation, the book argues that it is vital to understand the positions that progressive lawyers collectively take in order to frame the connections they make between their personal and professional lives, the tools they use to achieve social change, as well as ethical tensions presented by their work. The book takes a reflexive ethnographic approach to capture the stories of 35 lawyers working to positively transform law and policy in the UK over the last 50 years. It also draws on a wealth of primary sources including case reports, historic campaign materials and media analysis alongside wider ethnographic interviews with academics, students and lawyers and participant observation at social justice conferences, workshops and events. The book explains the way in which lawyers' networks facilitate their collective positioning and influence their strategic decision making, which in turn shapes their interactions with social activists, with other lawyers and with the state itself.

Author : Nessa Lynch,Yannick van den Brink,Louise Forde
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000582406

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Responses to Serious Offending by Children by Nessa Lynch,Yannick van den Brink,Louise Forde Pdf

This book explores the principles, practice and challenges in determining justice system responses to serious offending by children globally. Divided into four parts, the book provides a balance of theoretical and empirical insights. Anchored in a theoretical framework based on the human rights of children, as set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, it considers the relationship between scientific evidence (such as brain development) and the human rights framework, before going to explore the diversity of responses to children who are found responsible for serious offences. It brings together experts from various disciplines to fill a gap relating to serious offending by children in the literature. Scholars from Africa, Latin America and Asia, as well as Europe, North America and Oceania provide perspectives from legally, socially and culturally distinct jurisdictions. The first part focuses on the theoretical framework and explores the applicable standards and principles, including the relevant human rights framework and penological approaches to sentencing children for serious crimes. The second part analyses available empirical evidence, including evidence relating to the profiles of children who commit serious crimes, child and adolescent development, effective sentencing approaches and evidence of disparities in responses to serious offending by children. The third part provides a discussion of justice system responses to serious offending by children in a range of jurisdictions or regions with diverse and distinct legal, social and cultural contexts. Finally, the book uses the theoretical framework, empirical evidence, and case studies of jurisdictions to reflect on how principles relating to responses to serious offending by children can be translated into practice, and to highlight key debates and issues that will need to be explored into the future. Adding much-needed international perspectives to the scholarship addressing the issue, this book will be of great interest to academics, students, legal practitioners and social work professionals working on youth justice and children’s rights across the globe.

Author : Patricia Cochran
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780773552326

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Common Sense and Legal Judgment by Patricia Cochran Pdf

What does it mean when a judge in a court of law uses the phrase “common sense”? Is it a type of evidence or a mode of reasoning? In a world characterized by material and political inequalities, whose common sense should inform the law? Common Sense and Legal Judgment explores this rhetorically powerful phrase, arguing that common sense, when invoked in political and legal discourses without adequate reflection, poses a threat to the quality and legitimacy of legal judgment. Often operating in the service of conservatism, populism, or majoritarianism, common sense can harbour stereotypes, reproduce unjust power relations, and silence marginalized people. Nevertheless, drawing the works of theorists such as Thomas Reid, Antonio Gramsci, and Hannah Arendt into conversation with rulings by the Supreme Court of Canada, Patricia Cochran demonstrates that with careful attention, the democratic, egalitarian, and community-sustaining aspects of common sense can be brought to light. A call for critical self-reflection and the close scrutiny of power relationships and social contexts, this book is a direct response to social justice predicaments and their confounding relationships to law. Creative and interdisciplinary, Common Sense and Legal Judgment reinvigorates feminist and anti-poverty understandings of judgment, knowledge, justice, and accountability.

Author : Jacqueline Kinghan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509938100

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Lawyers, Networks and Progressive Social Change by Jacqueline Kinghan Pdf

Written by a lawyer who works at the intersection between legal education and practice in access to justice and human rights, this book locates, describes and defines a collective identity for social justice lawyering in the UK. Underpinned by theories of cause lawyering and legal mobilisation, the book argues that it is vital to understand the positions that progressive lawyers collectively take in order to frame the connections they make between their personal and professional lives, the tools they use to achieve social change, as well as ethical tensions presented by their work. The book takes a reflexive ethnographic approach to capture the stories of 35 lawyers working to positively transform law and policy in the UK over the last 50 years. It also draws on a wealth of primary sources including case reports, historic campaign materials and media analysis alongside wider ethnographic interviews with academics, students and lawyers and participant observation at social justice conferences, workshops and events. The book explains the way in which lawyers' networks facilitate their collective positioning and influence their strategic decision making, which in turn shapes their interactions with social activists, with other lawyers and with the state itself.

Author : FRANCISCO. BENDER VALDES (STEVEN W.. HILL, JENNIFER J.),Steven Bender,Jennifer Hill
Publisher : West Academic Publishing
Page : 1356 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1628102047

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Critical Justice by FRANCISCO. BENDER VALDES (STEVEN W.. HILL, JENNIFER J.),Steven Bender,Jennifer Hill Pdf

Critical Justice equips students and teachers with a framework for confronting systemic injustice by developing systemic advocacy projects rooted in insights of the critical schools of legal knowledge and field-based advocacy approaches. The textbook describes both law's complicity in maintaining injustice and its importance as a tool in struggles to advance equal justice. Drawing on iconic and cutting-edge writings, the textbook outlines the "Critical Challenge" for advocates: how to translate the noble promise of equal justice into lived social realities for all--how to use law for justice. The textbook prepares students to use law for justice by developing systemic advocacy projects that overcome the "blindfolds" and "handcuffs" of traditional legal education and practice. Critical Justice's conceptual and practical toolkit focuses on four key missing elements--social identities, groups, interests, and power--to explain the persistence of systemic injustice, and on redesigned professional norms to promote collaboration with subordinated communities. The textbook defines and illustrates systemic advocacy: systemic advocates craft ameliorative fixes to discrete problems while also transforming the playing field by building the organized power of subordinated groups and shifting consciousness and culture to undermine supremacist ideologies. Critical Justice also presents a template for designing advocacy projects to help students design fellowship proposals and pursue dream jobs. Critical Justice fills a gap in racial and social justice curriculum that connects the dots among systems and oppressions that persist across time and borders. With all author proceeds going to an academic nonprofit with antisubordination aims, this textbook is truly a collective undertaking in praxis toward equal justice for all.

Author : Michelle Foster
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 162131328X

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Issues in Law and Society by Michelle Foster Pdf

The anthology Enduring Issues in Law and Society is a reflection on how members of society can live together without causing harm to others. The solution is rooted in the basic concepts of equality, fairness, and justice, which informed the selected readings. The book uses real-world examples to give students information, and encourages them to think critically about contemporary social issues. Section One helps students understand crime, law, and justice. It introduces social justice theory, and addresses general misinformation about crime. Section Two identifies inequities that contribute to crime including racial inequities, and inequities within the justice system. Section Three addresses policy and social justice. Readers will learn about specific cases that deal with legal attempts to increase social justice. Section Four focuses on social ills that lead to crime. This section also examines public attitudes toward gun usage for self-protection. An introduction to each section provides insight into the material and prepares students for effective reading. Michelle Foster holds master's degrees in political science and justice studies, both from Kent State University, where she is currently an adjunct instructor. She writes regularly on criminology and criminal justice, with recent works appearing in the Praxis Journal, the Encyclopedia of Criminology & Criminal Justice, and the Encyclopedia of American Law & Criminal Justice.

Author : Chloë Kennedy,Lindsay Farmer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000926286

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Leading Works in Criminal Law by Chloë Kennedy,Lindsay Farmer Pdf

This book analyses a selection of leading works in the criminal law to ask questions about how the modern discipline of criminal law has developed, how it has been deployed in colonial and postcolonial contexts, and how criminal law scholarship has engaged with traditionally marginalised perspectives such as feminism, queer theory, and anti-carceral and abolitionist movements. The works analysed range from Macaulay’s Indian Penal Code (1837) to more recent textbooks and monographs on criminal law, and their jurisdictional reach extends to India, Canada, Australia, Malawi, the UK and the USA. The contributing authors include scholars, activists and legal practitioners, each of whom explores the intellectual development and geographical reach of Anglocriminal law via the work they analyse. Across the collection, the editors and contributors address the question of what it means to be a leading work in criminal law. The book will be a valuable resource for students, academics and researchers working in the area of criminal law.

Author : Molly Andrews
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521422493

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Lifetimes of Commitment by Molly Andrews Pdf

Explores the ways in which political belief is developed and sustained throughout the course of a lifetime. Through interviews, it focuses on the lives of 15 British men and women, aged between 70 and 90, who have dedicated half a century or longer to working for social change and justice.

Author : Martha R. Mahoney,John O. Calmore,Stephanie M. Wildman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1195 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Public interest law
ISBN : 0314200401

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Cases and Materials on Social Justice by Martha R. Mahoney,John O. Calmore,Stephanie M. Wildman Pdf