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An introduction to law and society -- Theories of law and justice -- The structure and function of courts, legislatures, and administrative agencies -- The legal profession -- Access to justice and legal ethics -- Dispute resolution -- Criminal courts -- Juries -- Law and social control -- The impact of law on society -- Law and racial and ethnic inequality -- Privacy and surveillance -- International human rights and international crime.

This volume forms part of a series exploring key issues in ethics, law and society, published in association with the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law and Society. The works collectively address new technological, social and regulatory developments and the fresh ethical dilemmas these pose, and also quite critically compel an urgent revisiting of social and legal issues that were once the subject of controversy but which have now fallen out of the line of sight of academics, politicians and policy-makers. This fifth and final volume brings the series to a close and is dedicated to the memory of