TY - BOOK AU - Sarat,Austin TI - Studies in law, politics, and society T2 - Studies in law, politics and society, SN - 9781780526232 (electronic bk.) : AV - K370 .S78 2012 U1 - 340.115 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Bingley, U.K. PB - Emerald KW - Law KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - Indigenous Peoples KW - Law & society KW - bicssc KW - Legal system: general KW - Sociological jurisprudence KW - Political sociology N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/S1059-4337(2012)57 ER -