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Legal and social movement scholars have long puzzled over the role of movements in moving, being moved by, and changing the meanings of the law. But for decades, these two strands of scholarship only dovetailed at their edges, in the work of a few far-seeing scholars. The fields began to more productively merge before and after the turn of the century. In this Element, the authors take an interactive approach to this problem and sketch four mechanisms that seem promising in effecting a true fusion: legal mobilization, legal-political opportunity structure, social construction, and movement-countermovement interaction. The Element also illustrates the workings and interactions of these four mechanisms from two examples of the authors' work: the campaign for same-sex marriage in the United States and social constitutionalism in South Africa.

Amitai Etzioni argues for a new liberal communitarian approach as an effective response to populism. The book considers national security versus privacy, private sector responsibility, freedom of the press, campaign finance reform, regulatory law and the legal status of terrorists, offering a timely discussion of key issues

This special issue is part two of a two-part edited collection on interrupting the legal person, and what this means. Should we think of the legal person as a technical and grammatical question that varies across different legal traditions and jurisdictions? Does this cut across different ways of living and speaking law?.

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- PART I: Approaching socio-legal studies -- 1. Socio-legal theory and methods: introduction -- The organisation of the handbook -- 2. Traditions of studying the social and the legal: a short introduction to the institutional and intellectual development of socio-legal studies -- Introduction -- Institutions of law and society -- Individual paths in law and society/socio-legal studies -- Conclusion -- References -- 3. Uses and abuses of socio-legal studies -- Introduction: origin stories-the field's and mine -- "Good" uses of socio-legal studies: verifiable patterns of socio-legal behavior-ideas, empirics and policy -- "Misuses" (or lack of use) of socio-legal studies -- Implications: the limits of disciplinary thinking and acall for rigorous multidisciplinariety -- References -- Cases Cited -- 4. The why and how to of conducting a socio-legal empirical research project -- Introduction -- Why socio-legal? -- An approach to the staging of socio-legal research projects: the how -- Issues of wider relevance -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- References -- 5. Writing beyond distinctions -- How to write beyond distinctions -- Have we ever not been critical? -- What is the context of the law? -- Why do we all fail? -- Why must legal essays be disappointing? -- The essay as body? -- How many am I? -- What comes first, the idea or the writing? -- The responsibility of writing beyond distinctions -- What was the final distinction again? -- Further reading -- References -- 6. Doing critical-socio-legal theory -- Introduction -- Theory and critical-socio-legal theory -- Doing theory and unlimiting law -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- References -- 7. 'Indefensible and irresponsible': interdisciplinarity, truth and #reviewer2.

Intro -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Statistical Aspects of Macrosociological Research on Law -- 1.1 Probability, Odds, and the Odds Ratio -- 1.2 Intercept -- 1.3 Statistical Significance -- 1.4 Number of Cases -- 1.5 Excessive Collinearity, Influential Outliers, and Interaction -- 1.6 Model Fit and Parsimony -- 1.7 Macrosociological Theory and Research on Law -- Appendix: Event History Analysis -- Chapter 2: Jurymen, Jurywomen, and Law -- 2.1 Law in the United States and the Sex Attribute -- 2.1.1 Women, State Law, and Eligibility for Jury Service -- 2.1.2 From Hoyt to Taylor -- 2.2 Societal Agents in State Law on Women's Eligibility for Jury Service -- 2.2.1 Dependent Variable -- 2.2.2 Independent Variables and Their Empirical Indicators -- 2.2.2.1 Independent Variables from the Abortion Study -- 2.2.2.2 Sex Ratio -- 2.2.2.3 Interaction -- 2.2.3 Data Analysis -- 2.2.4 Summary of Findings -- 2.3 Points to Ponder -- Appendix: State Law on Juror Qualifications, Exemptions, and Excusals When the U.S. Supreme Court Decided Hoyt V. Florida (November 20, 1961) -- Chapter 3: "Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery": The Decriminalization of a Marriage-Endorsing Directive -- 3.1 The Macrosociology of Adultery -- 3.1.1 Adultery, Divorce, and Their Toll on Society -- 3.1.2 Prevalence of Adultery in the United States -- 3.2 A Study of Societal Determinants of the Decriminalization of Adultery -- 3.2.1 Design of the Study -- 3.2.1.1 Dependent Variable -- 3.2.1.2 Independent Variables -- 3.2.2 Data Analysis -- 3.2.3 Model III -- 3.3 Discussion -- Appendix139: Statutes and Legislation Criminalizing Adultery: State Law in 1955 and in 2015 -- Chapter 4: Penal Sanctions and Their Societal Setting: When Law Embraces Death -- 4.1 The Eighth Amendment and the Death Penalty.

Intro -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Autorenverzeichnis -- Einleitung: Unschärferelationen - Konstruktionen der Differenz von Politik und Recht -- Zusammenfassung -- 1 Einheitsreflexionen der Differenz von Politik und Recht -- 2 Forschungsperspektiven auf die Differenz von Politik und Recht -- Literatur -- Teil I Die Differenz der Differenzvon Politik und Recht -- Menschenrechte als Bedingung der Sozialkonstruktion. Ein sozialtranszendentaler Ansatz -- Zusammenfassung -- 1 These und Antithese -- 2 Naturrecht und Rechtspositivismus -- 3 Faktor Geschichtlichkeit -- 4 Der transzendentale Ansatz -- 5 Menschenrechte und Kultur -- 6 Sozialkonstruktivismus als Philosophie -- 7 Platzanweisungen -- Literatur -- Letztbegründungen des Rechts - Ideengeschichte und Kontingenz -- Zusammenfassung -- 1 Einleitung -- 2 Die Ausdifferenzierung des Rechts -- 3 Zwei Beispiele zur Lösung des Kontingenzproblems -- 3.1 Kelsens Reine Rechtslehre -- 3.2 Schmitts Politische Theologie -- 4 Kontingenz und Rechtssystem -- 5 Schlussbetrachtung -- Literatur -- Zur Struktur der Organisation der Rechtmäßigkeit - Demokratische Gründungsreden im Blickfeld der dogmatischen Anthropologie Pierre Legendres -- Zusammenfassung -- 1 Der Einsatz des Konstruktivismus -- 2 Variationen der Differenz von Politik und Recht -- 2.1 An die Grenzen der Skepsis -- 2.2 Die Montagen demokratischen Rechts -- 2.2.1 Die Überwindung der Skepsis -- 2.2.2 Das Überbieten der Skepsis -- 2.3 Zur Pluralität und Struktur der Gründung -- 3 Die Montagen des Rechts in der Blickbahn der dogmatischen Anthropologie Pierre Legendres -- Literatur -- Teil II Die Politik der Differenz -- Die Politisierung der Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit. Eine ideengeschichtliche und systematische Begriffsrekonstruktion -- Zusammenfassung -- 1 Einleitung -- 2 Der Politisierungsbegriff in den Sozialwissenschaften

Topics covered in this volume include: capital punishment; US abortion law; legal politics of temporality in emergencies; gendered racialization and White supremacy in the US; conflict resolution and legal theory; and self-determination for indigenous peoples in the Pacific

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