Exploring the 'legal' in socio-legal studies. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by David Cowan, Daniel Wincott.
• Editors: Cowan, David (David S.); Wincott, Daniel
• Contents: Exploring the legal; David Cowan and Daniel Wincott; PART I: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES; 1. Debt, Death, and Redemption: Toward a Soterial-Legal History of the Turner Rebellion; Christopher Tomlins; 2. The Concept of Law in Global Societal Constitutionalism; Jiří Přibáň; 3. Portraying the Legal in Socio-Legal Studies through Legal-Naming Events; Natalie Ohana; 4. Sex/Gender Equality: Taking a Break from the Legal to Transform the Social; Sharon Cowan; PART II: CASE STUDIES; 5. Fluid Legal Labels and the Circulation of Socio-technical Objects: the Multiple Lives of 'Fake' Medicines; Emilie Cloatre; 6. Solar Panels, Home Owners and Leases: the Lease as a Socio-legal Object; Caroline Hunter; 7. Bringing the Technical into the Socio-legal: The Metaphors of Law and Legal Scholarship of a 21st Century European Union; Paul James Cardwell and Tamara Hervey; 8. Territory and Human Rights: Mandatory Possession Proceedings; David Cowan; 9. Legal Technology in an Age of Austerity: Documentation, 'Functional' Incontinence and the Problem of Dignity; Helen Carr; 10. Following the Law or Using the Law? Decision Making in Medical Manslaughter; Andrew Sanders and Danielle Griffiths; A Sociolegal Metatheory; Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos; Afterword; Annelise Riles
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 340.115; Sociological jurisprudence
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137344380; 1137344385
• Related ISBNs: 9781137344366
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.