This integrated study of law ̧economics and Peircian semiotics re-examines the relationship between law and economics ̧overcoming the dichotomy between efficiency and justice ̧and introduces a new conception of law and market economy. The author challenges several basic assumptions…
Why should states matter and how do relations between fellow-citizens affect what is owed to distant strangers? How, if at all, can demanding egalitarian principles inform political action in the real world? This book proposes a novel solution through the concept of avant-garde …
Considers how the facts that are adduced in a legal forum connect to the ways in which facts are constructed in other areas of everyday life, and how the processes of legal decision-making partake of the logic by which the culture as a whole is put together. This book explores i…
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 …
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…
Bringing together an international range of academics, Gender, Sexualities and Law provides a comprehensive interrogation of the range of contemporary issues - both topical and controversial - raised by the gendered character of law, legal discourse and institutions. The genderi…
In his first year working in Los Angeles's Skid Row, Forrest Stuart was stopped on the street by police fourteen times. Usually for doing little more than standing there. Juliette, a woman he met during that time, has been stopped by police well over 100 times, arrested upward o…
