Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
On the Emerging Maturity of Law and Society: An Introduction xiiiPatricia Ewick and Austin Sarat
Part I Setting the Stage 1
1 What is Law and Society? Definitional Disputes 3Susan M. Sterett
2 Charting the “Classics” in Law and Society: The Development of the Field over the Past Half-Century 18Calvin Morrill and Kelsey Mayo
Part II Approaches to the Study of Law as a Social Phenomenon 37
3 Mapping a Cultural Studies of Law 39Naomi Mezey
4 Approaches to the Study of Law as a Social Phenomenon: Legal History 56Kunal M. Parker
5 Legal Ethnographies and Ethnographic Law 71Susan Bibler Coutin and Veronique Fortin
6 Just a Thought? Instantiations and Constructions of Procedural Justice 85Mary R. Rose
Part III Institutional Processes and Actors 103
7 Lawyers and the Legal Profession 105Ronit Dinovitzer and Bryant Garth
8 Courts and Judges: The Legitimacy Imperative and the Importance of Appearances 118Keith J. Bybee and Angela G. Narasimhan
9 Jurors and Juries 134Nancy S. Marder
10 Upside Down and Inside Out: Regulators and Regulatory Processes in Contemporary Perspective 150Bronwen Morgan
11 Using Public Law to Shape Private Organizations 168Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Nash
12 Police and Policing 183Jennifer D. Wood
Part IV Domains of Legal Policy 197
13 Domains of Policy: Law and Society Research on the Family 199Annie Bunting
14 Domains of Policy: Law and Society Perspectives on Antidiscrimination Law 212Donna E. Young
15 Domains of Policy: Law and Society Perspectives on Punishment and Social Control 228Keramet Reiter
16 Welfare Law 244Vicki Lens
17 Immigration Law and Immigrants’ Lived Experiences 258Leisy J. Abrego
18 The Return of Religion: The Rise, Decline, and Possible Resurrection of Legal Secularism 274Nomi Maya Stolzenberg
19 Human Rights 291Heinz Klug
20 More-than-Human Legalities: Advocating an “Animal Turn” in Law and Society 307Irus Braverman
21 Law and Disability 322Katharina Heyer
Part V How Does Law Matter? 337
22 The Constitution of Identity: Law and Race 339Osagie K. Obasogie
23 The Constitution of Identity: New Modalities of Nationality, Citizenship, Belonging and Being 351Eve Darian?]Smith
24 The Past, Present, and Future of Rights Scholarship 367Jeffrey R. Dudas, Jonathan Goldberg?]Hiller and Michael W. McCann
25 Law and Social Movements: Old Debates and New Directions 382Sandra R. Levitsky
26 The Rule of Law and Economic Development: Global Scripts, Vernacular Translations 399Ritu Birla
27 Law and Colonialism: Legacies and Lineages 417Renisa Mawani
28 Law and Globalism: Law without the State as Law without Violence 433Julieta Lemaitre
Index 446