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Laws and Societies in Global Contexts: Contemporary Approaches
Eve Darian-Smith
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Paperback. Promotes a global socio-legal perspective that engages with multiple laws and societies and diverse socio-legal systems based on different historical and cultural traditions. Series: Law in Context. Num Pages: 434 pages, 7 b/w illus. BIC Classification: LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 594. Contemporary Approaches. Series: Law in Context. 428 pages, 7 b/w illus. Promotes a global socio-legal perspective that engages with multiple laws and societies and diverse socio-legal systems based on different historical and cultural traditions. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: LAQ. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 20. Weight: 586.
This text seeks to situate socio-legal studies in a global context. Law and society scholarship in the United States and elsewhere typically assumes one legal system and one society and explores the relationship between them. Such a narrow endeavor perpetuates a Western international relations model that too often conflates law, culture and the nation-state. A more global socio-legal perspective engages with multiple laws and societies within and across national borders and recognizes diverse socio-legal systems based on very different historical and cultural traditions, interacting on multiple local, national and global levels. This more global perspective also reveals an array of ... Read more
This text seeks to situate socio-legal studies in a global context. Law and society scholarship in the United States and elsewhere typically assumes one legal system and one society and explores the relationship between them. Such a narrow endeavor perpetuates a Western international relations model that too often conflates law, culture and the nation-state. A more global socio-legal perspective engages with multiple laws and societies within and across national borders and recognizes diverse socio-legal systems based on very different historical and cultural traditions, interacting on multiple local, national and global levels. This more global perspective also reveals an array of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
428
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Law in Context
Condition
New
Number of Pages
434
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521130714
SKU
V9780521130714
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About Eve Darian-Smith
Eve Darian-Smith is Professor in Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She holds degrees in law (Melbourne) and sociocultural anthropology (Harvard, Chicago). Her research engages with issues of legal pluralism and explores the changing role of law and legal institutions in the context of globalization. Her first book, Bridging Divides: The Channel Tunnel and English Legal Identity ... Read more
Reviews for Laws and Societies in Global Contexts: Contemporary Approaches
'In its scope, ambition and passion the result is one of the best books to emerge from this field in recent years. It will remain a reference point in years to come.' Desmond Manderson, Law and Humanities