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Michael O’Neal’s Slavery, Smallholding and Tourism Examines the British Virgin Islands with Anthropology and History
Explores the political economy of development in the BVI — from plantations, through a smallholding economy, to the rise of tourism. The demise of plantations ushered in a century of imperial disinterest, then a new “monocrop” — tourism — became ascendant. Using an historical and anthropological approach, O'Neal shows how later reliance on tourism and other dependent industries affects many BVIslanders — called the “Belongers” — in ways that echo their historical and economic heritage. NEW IN PAPERBACK, HARDCOVER, and multiple eBOOK FORMATS.
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Wester’s book Land Divided By Law explores environmental history of Yakama Indians in Pacific Northwest
Wester’s environmental history of Yakama and Euro-American cultural interactions during the 19th and early 20th century explores the role of law in both curtailing and promoting rights to subsistence resources within a market economy. Her study, using original source files, case histories, and contemporary writings, particularly describes how the struggle to assert treaty rights both sprang from and impacted the daily lives of the Yakama people. The study is now widely available in this new paperback (and digital) edition, adding a 2014 foreword by Harry N. Scheiber, professor of law and history at Berkeley. This book, he writes, “is a masterful study of the complex, extended series of confrontations between…
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Rosann Greenspan’s classic study of due process, criminal procedure & administrative ‘bypass’ is available as a new book
A classic study in law & society is now readily available to scholars, researchers, and others in the field of criminal justice, due process, policing, and administrative procedure. It adds a new Preface by the author and a new Foreword by Berkeley law professor Malcolm M. Feeley. As the author reflects: “I think it was my first day in the field that the police liaison to the district attorney’s probation revocation program exclaimed, ‘Forget rights! Forget right to jury! Forget right to bail! There are no rights!’ As Malcolm Feeley says in his Foreword, what I ‘discovered’ over the course of researching and writing this study was in plain view…
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John Flood’s Study of the Corporate Law Firm Reveals a Side of Law Practice Often Ignored: Inside
A legal scholar and sociologist, John Flood spent years observing a large law firm from the inside—much like an embedded journalist, but with the perspective of a researcher on the theory and practice of legal organizations. What he found and analyzed resulted in a study that has been cited by many scholars over the years as the ultimate account of the inner workings of a corporate law firm, including its relations with clients, employees, and the broader profession. Further, using four detailed case studies, he showed how the construction of legal information and problems depended heavily on the role and specialization of the lawyer and the power of the client.…
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Hardback, paperback & ebook: Rosen on the Roles and Dilemmas of Attorneys in Advising Corporations
Acclaimed study in law & society -- already used and cited for its path-breaking research -- passed around before in looseleaf, now available worldwide as a new book. Features new Foreword and Preface. In paperback, cloth and multiple digital formats. Called a "cult classic" and "wonderful" in recent blog posts. "...Should be read by everyone interested in how law matters to organizations of all kinds." --Prof. Jonathan Simon, UC Berkeley School of Law "A pioneering work in the sociology of the legal profession and a foundational piece in the slowly emerging canon of empirical research on inside counsel...normatively challenges the legal profession’s ideology of moral 'independence.'" -- Prof. Sung Hui…
