Classics of Law & Society
This Series takes the best of classic law and society, legal history, and law works- often read by scholars, cited by students, and assigned to classes- and makes them easily available again, in a convenient form.
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Stuart Scheingold’s Pathbreaking Study of European Integration by Law is a Digitally Remastered Book™
In the early days of what would become the European Union, the new entity had a weak and ill-defined legislature and executive. And the European Court of Justice, whose decisions, actions, and even inactions subtly paved the way to a continent's integration. "Scheingold showed that its efforts, deftly melding law and politics, were a success beyond mere dispute-resolution and development of legal doctrine," states the new introduction to this classic study. "He was well aware that he was present at the creation of a powerful new institution. Yet he stood virtually alone in seeing what such an institution, using its power this way, could realize in terms of political integration.…
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Alison Renteln’s Classic Study of the Relativity of Human Rights Norms; Adds New Foreword by Tom Zwart
A classic socio-legal study of the incompatibility and possible reconciliation of competing views of culture relativism and absolute fundamental human rights. It features prodigious research and insight that has often been cited by academics and human rights lawyers and activists over two decades. Originally published by Sage, the book is now available in Quid Pro's Classics of the Social Sciences Series, in new eBook and paperback editions; it remains one of the foundational works in human rights.
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Cynthia Fuchs Epstein’s foundational Women in Law adds Deborah Rhode’s new Foreword: available in paperback and eBooks
Simply one of the most important and influential works in the canon of the sociology of law, Epstein's WOMEN IN LAW is now republished (including new paperback) and available worldwide for departments of sociology, law, and gender studies — but is accessible and fascinating to a general audience, unloaded with legal or sociological jargon. It won the SCRIBES Book Award and the ABA's Merit Award.
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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…
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Martin Shapiro Links Freedom of Speech with the Legitimate Political Role of the Supreme Court
A classic study of the free speech right and especially the function of the Supreme Court in review—in effect answering, before his time, Chief Justice Roberts' claim that judges are neutral umpires. Such judicial modesty ignores the Court's political role in governing and protecting under-represented citizens. In paperback edition, plus Kindle, Nook, Apple, and other ebook formats.
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Scheingold’s The Law in Political Integration Explores Federalizing the Early Forms of the EU
Really, what became the EU, from a disparate mishmash of treaties, organizations, and economic groupings. And always law, before most people could imagine the extent of political integration it would engender. But Stuart A. Scheingold saw what it could become, what law could do for that process, and analyzed the state of that process from its early fragments. His monograph written for the Harvard Center for International Relations became a classic for those interested in this snapshot of data and time, and its careful analysis of early decisions in trade and governance. He explores the reasons that law and regional integration would lead the future of the Union, not a…
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Classic Study of Solo Lawyers: Jerome Carlin’s Lawyers on Their Own Gets Digitally Remastered™
A classic study, in 2011 digital and paperback formats, with a new foreword by law professor William Gallagher. Carlin's LAWYERS ON THEIR OWN is a recognized, foundational study of lawyers in solo practice in an urban setting. It became the template for an important form of social science research into lawyers in action. The first frank, extensive and grounded study of individual practitioners, now back in print, plus nine quality digital formats.
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Classic legal history, adding new Foreword by Stewart Macaulay: Lawrence Friedman’s Contract Law in America
Contract law and legal history as applied in the real world and not just in the law books—a classic study of the social and economic realities of trade law, told through case studies and rich historical analysis, and comparing cases and legislation over three discrete historical periods. Lawrence Friedman's first book, with new introductions, is now in paperback and eight accessible digital formats.
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Discretion to Disobey: a classic of law & society
Kadish and Kadish, Discretion to Disobey, is a truly interdisciplinary inquiry into the idea of departing from the strict letter of the law in a way that, the authors argue, actually comports with both law and morality. Sometimes you have to break the law to make the law. AVAILABLE IN MODERN PAPERBACK or as an ebook from Amazon, Sony, Barnes & Noble, Apple iBooks, and Smashwords.
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Stuart Scheingold’s classic The Politics of Law and Order reissued in print and digital with new Foreword by Malcolm Feeley
How crime and public fear of it are socially constructed -- not just a set reality to observe. Politicians and others use public anxiety for their purposes, and push a 'law and order' platform even as crime rates drop. As the foundational, supported study of the issue, it's often cited and used in later scholarship on crime and politics, from a legendary scholar in the field--an acclaimed follow-up to his landmark 'The Politics of Rights.' Available in ebook and print formats.
