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Contents -- Preface -- I. The Legal System -- II. On Legal Acts -- III. On Legal Impact -- IV. When Is Law Effective?--Part I -- V. When Is Law Effective?--Part II -- VI. On the Origin of Law and Laws -- VII. Law, Power, and Social Structure -- VIII. On Legal Culture -- IX. On Internal Legal Culture -- X. Social Change and Legal Change -- Bibliography -- Index

Theoretical perspectives on lives in the law : an introduction / Lawrence Douglas, Austin Sarat, and Martha Merrill Umphrey -- The Chicago conspiracy trial as a Jewish morality tale / Pnina Lahav -- Law and everyday death : infanticide and the backlash against woman's rights after the Civil War / Sarah Barringer Gordon -- Dependency by law : welfare and identity in the lives of poor women / Frank Munger -- Labor's subjects / Vicki Schultz -- France and trials for crimes against humanity / Annette Wieviorka

"This book provides an overview of federalism and the states response to the LGBT movement. It describes partisanship, polarization and the use of preemptions when wide disparities between core values exist between urban and rural decision-makers and the citizens who exist within states. It also describes legal advances in religious freedom relying on US Supreme Court Cases"--

Friendship is one of our most important social institutions. It is the not only the salve for personal loneliness and isolation; it is the glue that binds society together. Yet for a host of reasons--longer hours at work, the Internet, suburban sprawl--many have argued that friendship is on the decline in contemporary America. In social surveys, researchers have found that Americans on average have fewer friends today than in times past. In Friend v. Friend, Ethan J. Leib takes stock of this most ancient of social institutions and its ongoing transformations, and contends that it could benefit