Encyclopedia of Law and Society

American and Global Perspectives

David S. Clark (Autor)

Media-Kombination

1808 Seiten

2007
SAGE Publications Inc
978-0-7619-2387-9 (ISBN)

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"This work will be very valuable for academic and public libraries supporting prelaw, law, social, and cultural studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners; general readers."
—CHOICE

There are two aspects of scholarship about the legal systems of our day that are especially salient—one being for the first time there is a fair amount of genuine research on legal systems, and two, that this research is increasingly global. As soon as you cross a jurisdictional line, even if it separates countries that are very similar, you enter a different legal system. It cannot be assumed that any particular rule, doctrine, or practice is the same in any two jurisdictions, regardless of how close these jurisdictions are, in terms of history and tradition.

The Encyclopedia of Law and Society is the largest comprehensive and international treatment of the law and society field. With an Advisory Board of 62 members from 20 countries and six continents, the three volumes of this state-of-the-art resource represent interdisciplinary perspectives on law from sociology, criminology, cultural anthropology, political science, social psychology, and economics. By globalizing the Encyclopedia′s coverage, American and international law and society will be better understood within its historical and comparative context.

Key Features:

Includes more than 700 biographical entries that are historical, comparative, topical, thematic, and methodological
Presents the rich diversity of European, Latin American, Asian, African, and Australasian developments for the first time in one place to reveal the truly holistic, interdisciplinary virtues of law and society
Examines how and why legal systems grow and change, how and why they respond (or fail to respond) to their environment, how and why they impact the life of society, and how and why the life of society impacts in turn these legal systems

With borders more porous than ever before, this Encyclopedia reflects the paradoxical reality of modern life, including legal life. This valuable resource aims to present research, along with the theories on which it is grounded, fairly and comprehensively and is a must-have for all academic libraries.

Professor David S. Clark joined the Willamette faculty in January 2002. He is a frequent scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg and has held the Alexander von Humboldt and Max Planck Society research fellowships. Clark previously taught at the universities of Colorado, Houston, Louisiana State, and Tulsa. He was also the Inns of Court Fellow at Inner Temple in London (2000), the Fulbright Chair in Comparative Law at Trento University (1999), the Wing Tat Lee Chair in International and Comparative Law at Loyola University Chicago (1996), and the Dan Hopson Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Southern Illinois University (1987).

List of Sample Entries: Aboriginal and Indigenous Peoples, Treatment of; Associations, Lawyer; Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832); Biopsychology of Crime; Courts; Courts, Lawmaking by (Precedent); Crime Trends; Critical Legal Studies; Drugs, Economics of Illegal; Duguit, Leon (1859-1928); Evidence and Proof, Doctrinal Divisions & Issues in; Fraenkel, Ernst (1898 - 1975); Fuchs, Ernst (1859-1929); Gangs; Genetics and Crime; Geography, Law and; Gierke, Otto von (1841-1921); Ginsberg, Morris (1889-1970); Hauriou, Maurice (1856 - 1929); Immigration and Citizenship; Industrialization; Intent in Norms; Investigative Psychology; Kaupen, Wolfgang (1937-1981); Levy Bruhl, Henri (1884-1964); Literature, Law and; Mafia and Organized Crime; Malinowski, Bronislaw (1884-1942); Market Failure; Merriam, Charles E. (1874-1953); Neuroscience and Law; Nongovernmental Organizations; Pareto, Vilfredo (1848-1923); Petrazycki, Leon (1867-1931); Positive Law; Preventive Detention; Privatization; Prosecutors; Psycho- and Sociopathy; Punishment, Economics of; Religious Minorities; Schmoller, Gustav von (1838-1917); Transplants, Colonization as Legal; Voluntary Acts, Psychology of; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924).

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.7.2007
Verlagsort	Thousand Oaks
Sprache	englisch
Maße	215 x 279 mm
Gewicht	5880 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	0-7619-2387-X / 076192387X
ISBN-13	978-0-7619-2387-9 / 9780761923879
Zustand	Neuware