1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Law and Society
This innovative handbook provides a comprehensive, and truly global, overview of the main approaches and themes within law and society scholarship or social-legal studies.
A one-volume introduction to academic resources and ideas that are relevant for today’s debates on issues from reproductive justice to climate justice, food security, water conflicts, artificial intelligence, and global financial transactions, this handbook is divided into two sections. The first, ‘Perspectives and Approaches’, accessibly explains a variety of frameworks through which the relationship between law and society is addressed and understood, with emphasis on contemporary perspectives that are relatively new to many socio-legal scholars. Following the book’s overall interest in social justice, the entries in this section of the book show how conceptual tools originate in, and help to illuminate, real-world issues. The second and largest section of the book (42 short well-written pieces) presents reflections on topics or areas concerning law, justice, and society that are inherently interdisciplinary and that are relevance to current – but also classical – struggles around justice. Informing readers about the lineage of ideas that are used or could be used today for research and activism, the book attends to the full range of local, national and transnational issues in law and society. The authors were carefully chosen to achieve a diverse and non-Eurocentric view of socio-legal studies.
This volume will be invaluable for law students, those in inter-disciplinary programs such as law and society, justice studies and legal studies, and those with interests in law, but based in other social sciences. It will also appeal to general readers interested in questions of justice and rights, including activists and advocates around the world.
Contested laws, contested societies: introductory remarks
Mariana Valverde, Kamari Maxine Clarke, Eve Darian-Smith, and Prabha Kotiswaran
Part 1 – CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES AND APPROACHES
1. Actor-Network Theory and socio legal analysis
Leticia Barrera and Sergio Latorre
2. Critical legal studies: A curious case of hegemony without dominance
Vasuki Nesiah
3. Critical race theory: Emergence and New Lines of Inquiry
Kamari Maxine Clarke and Ifrah Abdillahi
4. Feminism
Donatella Alessandrini
5. Governmentality and sociolegal studies
Pat O’Malley
6. Indigenous law: What non-Indigenous people can learn from Indigenous legal thought
Kirsten Anker
7. Liberalism
Mariana Valverde
8. Postcolonial legal studies
Renisa Mawani
9. Queer theory and socio-legal studies
Sarah Lamble
10. Transnational governance and law: Global security and socio-legal studies
Gavin Sullivan
Part 2 – SITES OF ENGAGEMENT
11. Agriculture, Law, and the State
Matthew Canfield, Amy J. Cohen and Michael Fakhri
12. Animals
Irus Braverman
13. Artificial Intelligence and Public Law
Jacob Livingston Slosser
14. Capitalism and capital
Bryant G. Garth
15. Censorship: state control of expression
Sida Liu and Di Wang
16. Cities and urbanization
Antonio Azuela
17. Citizenship
Engin Isin
18. Class and economic inequality
Mariana Valverde
19. Climate Justice
Usha Natarajan
20. Corporations
Bhavani Raman
21. Data
Jennifer Raso and Nofar Sheffi
22. Domestic work: transnational regulation
Adelle Blackett
23. Extractivism: Socio-legal Approaches to Relations with Lands and Resources
Dayna Nadine Scott
24. Finance, banking and debt
Mariana Valverde
25. Food sovereignty and food justice
Carmen G. Gonzalez
26. Gender and Law
Pallavi Banerjee and Pedrom Nasiri
27. Genocide
Nicola Palmer
28. Human Rights: Challenging Universality
Ben Golder
29. Immigration, Law and Resistance
Susan Bibler Coutin
30. Imperialism and law
Jothie Rajah
31. Incarceration: how to understand imprisonment rates
Maximo Sozzo
32. Indicators: Sociolegal Dimensions of Quantification
Sally Engle Merry
33. Indigeneity: making and contesting the concept
Miranda Johnson
34. Infrastructure: socio-legal aspects of a key word of our time
Mariana Valverde
35. Islamic law and the state
Anver Emon
36. Jurisdiction
Shiri Pasternak
37. Labour and employment
Diamond Ashiagbor
38. Legal consciousness
Lynnette J. Chua and David M. Engel
39. Migration
Brenda S.A. Yeoh
40. Ownership: Persons, property, and community
Margaret Davies
41. Ownership of intangibles: Intellectual Property and the Contested Commons
S. Ali Malik and Rosemary J. Coombe
42. From reproductive rights to reproductive justice
Rachel Rebouché
43. Settler colonialism
Sarah Hunt
44. Sexuality
Brenda Cossman
45. Sovereignty
Shaun McVeigh
46. Space and belonging
Sarah Keenan
47. Supply chains and logistics
Galit A. Safarty
48. Territory and law
Nicholas Blomley
49. The Transnational Law of Human Trafficking
Prabha Kotiswaran
50. Water disputes across borders
Tamar Meshel
51. Water justice and indigenous peoples
Pooja Parmar
52. White Supremacy
Jemima Pierre and Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús
Biography
Mariana Valverde is a Sociolegal Scholar, who has taught at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Criminology, and Sociolegal Studies Canada for 25 years.
Kamari Maxine Clarke is a Professor at the University of Toronto in Criminology and Legal Studies, Canada, with a cross-appointment in Diaspora and Transnational Studies.
Eve Darian-Smith is a Professor and the Chair of Global & International Studies Department at the University of California, Irvine, USA.
Prabha Kotiswaran is a Professor of Law & Social Justice at King’s College London, UK.
