Tort Custom And Karma

Author : David Engel
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804763828
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tort, Custom, and Karma written by David Engel and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This colorful portrait of law and society during a period of rapid social change reaches a counter-intuitive conclusion about the role of law in injury cases: globalization has led ordinary Thai people to turn away from courts and lawyers and to embrace a form of religious practice that leaves them without any remedy for harms they have suffered.

Author : David Engel
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804773750
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tort, Custom, and Karma written by David Engel and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diverse societies are now connected by globalization, but how do ordinary people feel about law as they cope day-to-day with a transformed world? Tort, Custom, and Karma examines how rapid societal changes, economic development, and integration into global markets have affected ordinary people's perceptions of law, with a special focus on the narratives of men and women who have suffered serious injuries in the province of Chiangmai, Thailand. This work embraces neither the conventional view that increasing global connections spread the spirit of liberal legalism, nor its antithesis that backlash to interconnection leads to ideologies such as religious fundamentalism. Instead, it looks specifically at how a person's changing ideas of community, legal justice, and religious belief in turn transform the role of law particularly as a viable form of redress for injury. This revealing look at fundamental shifts in the interconnections between globalization, state law, and customary practices uncovers a pattern of increasing remoteness from law that deserves immediate attention.

Author : David M.. Engel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786162150012
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tort, Custom, and Karma written by David M.. Engel and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne Bloom
Publisher : Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
ISBN 13 : 1108420249
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Injury and Injustice written by Anne Bloom and published by Cambridge Studies in Law and Society. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the inescapable experience of injury and its implications for social inequality in different cultural settings.

Author : Winnifred Sullivan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804775362
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Secular Law written by Winnifred Sullivan and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-29 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together scholars with a variety of perspectives and orientations, this work examines the interconnections between law and religion and the unexpected histories and anthropologies of legal secularism in a globalizing modernity.

Author : Mauro Bussani
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789905982
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Tort Law written by Mauro Bussani and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised second edition of Comparative Tort Law: Global Perspectives offers an updated and enriched framework for analysing and understanding the current state of tort law around the world. Using a critical comparative methodology, it covers not only the common tort law issues but also many jurisdictions often overlooked in the mainstream literature. Contributions explore illuminating case studies from tort systems in Europe, the US, Latin America, Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, including new chapters specifically discussing tort law in Brazil, India and Russia.

Author : Mary Nell Trautner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107188407
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, and Law written by Mary Nell Trautner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume closely examines a single canonical article and how it continues to shape the future of sociolegal studies.

Author : Joshua C. Wilson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804788707
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Street Politics of Abortion written by Joshua C. Wilson and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade stands as a historic victory for abortion-rights activists. But rather than serving as the coda to what had been a comparatively low-profile social conflict, the decision mobilized a wave of anti-abortion protests and ignited a heated struggle that continues to this day. Picking up the story in the contentious decades that followed Roe, The Street Politics of Abortion is the first book to consider the rise and fall of clinic-front protests through the 1980s and 1990s, the most visible and contentious period in U.S. reproductive politics. Joshua Wilson considers how street level protests lead to three seminal Court decisions—Planned Parenthood v. Williams, Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network of Western N.Y., and Hill v. Colorado. The eventual demise of street protests via these cases taught anti-abortion activists the value of incremental institutional strategies that could produce concrete policy gains without drawing the public's attention. Activists on both sides ultimately moved—often literally—from the streets to fight in state legislative halls and courtrooms. At its core, the story of clinic-front protests is the story of the Christian Right's mercurial assent as a force in American politics. As the conflict moved from the street, to the courts, and eventually to legislative halls, the competing sides came to rely on a network of lawyers and professionals to champion their causes. New Christian Right institutions—including Pat Robertson's American Center for Law and Justice and the Regent University Law School, and Jerry Falwell's Liberty University School of Law—trained elite activists for their "front line" battles in government. Wilson demonstrates how the abortion-rights movement, despite its initial success with Roe, has since faced continuous challenges and difficulties, while the anti-abortion movement continues to gain strength in spite of its losses.

Author : Marc Hertogh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137603976
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Law written by Marc Hertogh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody’s Law shows how people – who are disappointed, disenchanted, and outraged about the justice system – gradually move away from law. Using detailed case studies and combining different theoretical perspectives, this book explores the legal consciousness of ordinary people, businessmen, and street-level bureaucrats in the Netherlands. The empirical research in this study tells an original and alternative narrative about the role of law in everyday life. While previous studies emphasize the law’s hegemony and argue that it’s ‘all over’, Hertogh shows that legal proliferation makes it harder for people to know, and subsequently identify with, the law. As a result, official law has become increasingly remote and irrelevant to many people. The central finding presented in this highly topical text is that these developments signal a process of ‘legal alienation’— a gradual and mundane process with potentially serious consequences for the legitimacy of law. A timely and original study, this book will be of particular interest to scholars in the fields of law and society, socio-legal studies and legal theory.

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118701445
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Law and Society written by Austin Sarat and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing a timely synthesis to the field, The Handbook of Law and Society presents a comprehensive overview of key research findings, theoretical developments, and methodological controversies in the field of law and society. Provides illuminating insights into societal issues that pose ongoing real-world legal problems Offers accessible, succinct overviews with in-depth coverage of each topic, including its evolution, current state, and directions for future research Addresses a wide range of emergent topics in law and society and revisits perennial questions about law in a global world including the widening gap between codified laws and “law in action”, problems in the implementation of legal decisions, law’s constitutive role in shaping society, the importance of law in everyday life, ways legal institutions both embrace and resist change, the impact of new media and technologies on law, intersections of law and identity, law’s relationship to social consensus and conflict, and many more Features contributions from 38 international expert scholars working in diverse fields at the intersections of legal studies and social sciences Unique in its contributions to this rapidly expanding and important new multi-disciplinary field of study