Queer Theory: Law, Culture Empire uses queer theory to examine the complex interactions of law, culture, and empire. Building on recent work on empire, and taking contextual, socio-legal, comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches, it studies how activists and scholars engage…
Existing approaches to the relation of law and society have for a long time seen law as either autonomous or self-grounded in society. This volume presents a new approach that sees law as both derived from and constitutive of its surrounding social and cultural context. Drawing …
Students and the public routinely consult various published college rankings to assess the quality of colleges and universities and easily compare different schools. However, many institutions have responded to the rankings in ways that benefit neither the schools nor their stud…
Integration through law: Europe and the American federal experience
by Rehbinder, Eckard, Stewart, Richard, Daintith, Terence, Weiler, Joseph, Cappelletti, Mauro, Seccombe, Monica, Bourgoignie, Thierry, Trubek, David, Williams, Stephen F., Buxbaum, Richard M., Hopt, Klaus J.
fromEuropean University Institute
Niklas Luhmann wrote a number of works which have decisively shaped the recent development of legal science as a theoretical discipline. Some basic elements of his theory have been widely appropriated by other legal theorists, such that it is difficult to imagine contemporary re…
The articles in this collection cover a wide range of approaches to law and legal theory, including analytical jurisprudence, legal realism, law and economics, critical legal studies, feminism, and critical race theory. The essays consider foundational questions regarding the ob…
Regulating Law explores how the goals and policies of the new regulatory state are fundamentally reshaping jurisprudence in the domains of public law, private law, and the regulation of work and business. Fourteen areas of the core legal curriculum are reassessed from the standp…