Law in Context

Bottomley and Bronitt expose readers to the multitude of contexts (some explicit, others implicit) that affect how law is made, broken and enforced by the state or individual citizens. The fundamental ideals of law - such as the Rule of Law - rest on cherished liberal values, though the authors constantly encourage readers not to accept uncritically the rhetoric of law, but to test these assumptions through empirical eyes.

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Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Law's Philosophical Foundations -- (a) Introduction -- (b) What is liberalism? -- (c) Elements of liberalism -- (d) The limits of liberalism: The case of pornography -- (e) Conclusion -- Chapter 2: Legal Formalism and the Rule of Law -- (a) Introduction -- (b) The rule of law -- (c) Formalism -- (d) Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Gender -- (a) Introduction -- (b) Feminist theory -- (c) Feminist perspectives on the public-private divide

(D) Equality rights: Anti-discrimination and affirmative action laws -- (e) Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Race -- (a) Introduction -- (b) The legal construction of race -- (c) Rethinking Aboriginal (in)justice: The recognition of Aboriginal laws -- (d) Rethinking Aboriginal crime and criminal justice -- (e) Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Access to Justice -- (a) Introduction -- (b) Problems of access to justice -- (c) Responses to problems of access -- (d) Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Litigation -- (a) Introduction -- (b) The adversarial model -- (c) Criminal litigation -- (d) Civil litigation -- (e) Conclusion

Chapter 7: Lawyers, Clien…