02351nam a2200409Ia 4500 bslw08317823 UtOrBLW 20171018091358.0 m d cr un||||||||| 120224s2012 enka o 000 0 eng d 9781780526232 (electronic bk.) : �62.95 ; �89.95 ; $114.95 UtOrBLW UtOrBLW K370 .S78 2012 LAQ bicssc LNA bicssc LAW000000 bisacsh LAW110000 bisacsh 340 340.115 23 Studies in law, politics, and society. Vol. 57 [electronic resource] / edited by Austin Sarat. Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2012. 1 online resource (x, 246 p.) : ill. Studies in law, politics and society, 1059-4337 It's not about race, it's about rights / Ann Sullivan, Valmaine Toki -- Legislative abolition of the death penalty : a qualitative analysis / Kevin H. Wozniak -- The most restrictive alternative : a litigation history of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons, 1960-2006 / Keramet Ann Reiter -- Return of the wrongly convicted : the test for post-conviction executive references in Australia / David Caruso -- Measuring legal formalism : reading hard cases with soft frames / Michal Alberstein -- On law's promise : thinking about how we think about law's limits / Nicky Priaulx. This volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society contains an international and interdisciplinary array of legal scholarship. Presenting diverse theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, this work illuminates the laws response to its social context as well as the way law shapes that context. It shows how legal scholars contribute to public debate about contemporary issues as well as how they articulate the nature of rights and the limits of law. Law General. bisacsh Law Indigenous Peoples. bisacsh Law & society. bicssc Legal system: general. bicssc Sociological jurisprudence. Political sociology. Sarat, Austin. 9781780526225 Studies in law, politics, and society. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/1059-4337/57 223027 223027