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This volume of Studies in Law, Politics and Society examines the contribution of ethnography to our understanding of contemporary legal and political phenomena, with a particular focus on how it enables us to make sense of modern life under conditions of post-colonialism and globalization.Through the examination of case studies such as affirmative action at the University of Michigan, the US government and tribal consultations, the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem, and freedom of speech on campus, this edited volume demonstrates the value of ethnography as a method of scholarly investigation within law and politics.Written by an impressive group of interdisciplinary scholars, this book will prove invaluable to students and researchers in the fields of law and politics.

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Muslims among non-Muslims -- Regulating diversity within the empire -- Cultural diversity, deviance, public law and criminal justice in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation -- The qazi, the dharmadhikari and the judge -- Beyond diversity -- Legal diversity – or the relative lack of it – in early modern Sweden -- Beyond dharmashastras and Weberian modernity -- Constitutional law and diversity in the French Revolution -- Contributors -- Index

1. What are justice and social justice? -- 2. What do Americans value? -- 3. The criminal justice system -- 4. Social construction of different groups -- 5. Race, ethnicity, and social justice -- 6. Latinos and social justice -- 7. Native Americans and social justice -- 8. Social class and the law -- 9. Women and social justice -- 10. Sexuality and social justice -- 11. Summary and prospects for the future.

Was ist Recht - als soziale Tatsache, als kulturelle Form, als Code eines Systems, als Praxis der Regulierung, als Instrument von Herrschaft oder als Recht 2.0.? Das innovative Lehr- und Studienbuch diskutiert erstmals systematisch die Funktionen des Rechts und alle Bereiche juristischer Praxis. Diese "Rechtssoziologie" verbindet die tradierten Inhalte des Grundlagenfaches - die wichtigsten Theoretiker und Themen - mit aktuellen Ansätzen - wie Governance oder Rechtspluralismus - und kritischen Perspektiven - marxistisch, feministisch oder auch postkolonial. Recht wird hier jenseits der Rechtsdogmatik und mit Blick auf den praktischen Umgang behandelt: Prozesse und Akteure der Rechtssetzung, Rechtsmobilisierung und Rechts-anwendung sowie die Effekte von Recht werden unter Nutzung aktuellster Forschungsergebnisse diskutiert.Die auch rechtspolitisch kontroversen Beispiele, vertiefende Literaturhinweise und ein Kapitel zu Methoden der Rechtsforschung ermöglichen das Selbststudium, liefern aber auch Hilfestellung zur Entwicklung eigener Forschung in Master-Arbeiten, für die Promotion oder Projekte empirischer Rechtsforschung; es trägt eine einsemestrige Vorlesung. Das Werk wendet sich an alle, die Recht besser verstehen wollen – in der Rechtswissenschaft, den Sozial-, Kultur- und Geisteswissenschaften

Since the Cold War ended, China has become a global symbol of disregard for human rights, while the United States has positioned itself as the world's chief exporter of the rule of law. How did lawlessness become an axiom about Chineseness rather than a fact needing to be verified empirically, and how did the United States assume the mantle of law's universal appeal? In a series of wide-ranging inquiries, Teemu Ruskola investigates the history of "legal Orientalism": a set of globally circulating narratives about what law is and who has it. For example, why is China said not to have a history of corporate law, as a way of explaining its "failure" to develop capitalism on its own? Ruskola shows how a European tradition of philosophical prejudices about Chinese law developed into a distinctively American ideology of empire, influential to this day. The first Sino-U.S. treaty in 1844 authorized the extraterritorial application of American law in a putatively lawless China. A kind of legal imperialism, this practice long predated U.S. territorial colonialism after the Spanish-American War in 1898, and found its fullest expression in an American district court's jurisdiction over the "District of China." With urgent contemporary implications, legal Orientalism lives on in the enduring damage wrought on the U.S. Constitution by late nineteenth-century anti-Chinese immigration laws, and in the self-Orientalizing reforms of Chinese law today. In the global politics of trade and human rights, legal Orientalism continues to shape modern subjectivities, institutions, and geopolitics in powerful and unacknowledged ways.

From outlawing polygamy and mandating public education to protecting the rights of minorities, the framing of group life by the state has been a subject of considerable interest and controversy throughout the history of the United States. The subject continues to be important in many countries. This book deals with state responses to cultural difference through the examination of a number of encounters between individuals, groups, and the state, in the United States and elsewhere. The book opens the concepts of groups and the state, arguing for the complexity of their relations and interpenet

Through interviews with many of the most noteworthy authors in law and society, Conducting Law and Society Research takes students and scholars behind the scenes of empirical scholarship, showing the messy reality of research methods. The challenges and the uncertainties, so often missing from research methods textbooks, are revealed in candid detail. These accessible and revealing conversations about the lived reality of classic projects will be a source of encouragement and inspiration to those embarking on empirical research, ranging across the full array of disciplines that contribute to law and society. For all of the ambiguities and challenges to the social 'scientific' study of law, the reflections found in this book - collectively capturing a portrait of the field through the window of the research efforts - individually remind readers that 'good research' displays not an absence of problems, but the care taken in negotiating them

This book is a unique analysis of the struggle to build a rule of law in one of the world's most dynamic and vibrant nations - a socialist state that is seeking to build a market economy while struggling to pursue an ethos of social equality and opportunity. It addresses constitutional change, the assertion of constitutional claims by citizens, the formation of a strong civil society and non-profit sector, the emergence of economic law and the battles over who is benefited by the economic regulation, labor law and the protection of migrant and export labor, the rise of lawyers and public interest law, and other key topics. Alongside other countries, comparisons are made to parallel developments in another transforming socialist state, the People's Republic of China

Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Legacies of Legal Realism: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Law / Patricia Ewick, Robert A. Kagan, and Austin Sarat -- Part I. Historical and Structural Analyses of Law -- Chapter 1. Privatization and Punishment: Lessons from History / Malcolm M. Feeley -- Chapter 2. On Stage: Some Historical Notes about Criminal Justice / Lawrence M. Friedman -- Chapter 3. Beyond the Law of Evidence: Facts and Inequality in Criminal Defense / Kenneth Mann -- Part II. Barriers to Influence