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• Title:Laws and societies in global contexts : contemporary approaches / Eve Darian-Smith.
  
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• Author/Creator:Darian-Smith, Eve, 1963-
  
• Published/Created:New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: K370 .D37 2013
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Sociological jurisprudence.
  Law--Philosophy.
  
• Description:x, 422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"This book seeks to situate sociolegal studies in global contexts. 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 European-based international relations model that too often conflates law, culture, and the nation-state. A more global sociolegal perspective engages with multiple laws and societies within and across national borders and recognizes diverse socioelgal systems based on very different historical and cultural traditions, interacting on multiple local, national, regional, and global levels. This more global perspective also reveals an array of transnational issues including regional conflicts, genocide, mass immigration, environmental degradation, and climate change that have consistently defied resolution via the traditional international system of governance. The approach to global legal pluralism outlined here seeks to provide a framework for envisioning new global governance regimes that move beyond state-based solutions to deal with trenchant transnational challenges"--Page [i].
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-419) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780521113786 (hardback)
  0521113784 (hardback)
  9780521130714 (pbk.)
  0521130719 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Sociolegal Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century
  Brief Description of Law and Society Scholarship
  Book's Three Objectives
  What Is a Global Sociolegal Perspective?
  Obstacles to Embracing a Global Sociolegal Perspective
  Chapter Outline and Format
  List of Suggested Readings
  Selections
  Neither Global nor National: Novel Assemblages of Territory, Authority and Rights / Saskia Sassen
  2. Interconnected Themes and Challenges
  Law as (Multi)cultural Artifact
  Overcoming Legal Orientalism
  Aspirations of Global Governance
  List of Suggested Readings
  Selections
  Law as Culture / Naomi Mezey
  Legal Orientalism / Teemu Ruskola
  Savages, Victims, and Saviors: The Metaphor of Human Rights / Makau W. Mutua
  3. Producing Legal Knowledge
  Science of Law
  Aesthetics, Networks, Affects
  Decolonizing Legal Knowledge
  List of Suggested Readings
  Selections
  Toward a Jurisprudence of Hybridity / Paul Schiff Berman
  Aesthetics and American Law / Brian E. Butler
  Truth in Painting: Cultural Artifacts as Proof of Native Title / Kristen Anker
  4. Reimagining Legal Geographies
  Spaces, Times, Interlegalities
  Relational Properties and Sovereignties
  Law in the World
  List of Suggested Readings
  Selections
  Confined Within: National Territories as Zones of Confinement / Susan Bibler Coutin
  Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality / Akhil Gupta
  Guantanamo as a "Legal Black Hole": A Base for Expanding Space, Markets, and Culture / Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez
  5. Securing Peoples
  Human Rights as an Ethics of Progress
  Globalization, Violence, and Transitional Justice
  Human Security in the Twenty-First Century
  List of Suggested Readings
  Selections
  International Human Rights Movement: Part of the Problem? / David Kennedy
  Invoking the Rule of Law in Post-Conflict Rebuilding: A Critical Examination / Balakrishnan Rajagopal
  Money Can't Buy You Law: The Effects of Foreign Aid on the Rule of Law in Developing Countries / Katherine Erbeznik
  6. Re-racializing the World
  Race in Global Sociolegal Perspective
  Racializing Religion
  Environmental Apartheid
  Toxins, Floods, Diseases
  List of Suggested Readings
  Selections
  How to Judge Globalism / Amartya Sen
  Does French Islam Have Borders? Dilemmas of Domestication in a Global Religious Field / John R. Bowen
  Confronting Environmental Racism in the Twenty-First Century / Robert D. Bullard
  7. Conclusion: The Enduring Relevance of Law?.