This major textbook provides a clear and comprehensive guide to the sociology of law, surveying current theoretical debates and examining socio-legal research. Exploring the relationship between the law and other aspects of social life, it goes beyond a discussion of contemporar…
"This comprehensive text provides a clear and accessible guide to the sociology of law, surveying current theoretical debates and examining socio-legal research." "Accessible and wide-ranging, Law and Social Change provides an invaluable introduction to, and critical analysis of…
"This comprehensive text provides a clear and accessible guide to the sociology of law, surveying current theoretical debates and examining socio-legal research." "Accessible and wide-ranging, Law and Social Change provides an invaluable introduction to, and critical analysis of…
Présentation de l'éditeur : "Judging and Emotion investigates how judicial officers understand, experience, display, manage and deploy emotions in their everyday work, in light of their fundamental commitment to impartiality. Judging and Emotion challenges the conventional assum…
"Judges embody impartial legal authority. They are the nexus between formal abstract law, the legal institution of the court, and the practical tasks of making and communicating decisions. Because emotions are often viewed as inherently irrational, disorderly, impulsive, and per…
"Judges embody impartial legal authority. They are the nexus between formal abstract law, the legal institution of the court, and the practical tasks of making and communicating decisions. Because emotions are often viewed as inherently irrational, disorderly, impulsive, and per…