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<p>Notes on Contributors viii</p> <p>On the Emerging Maturity of Law and Society: An Introduction  xiii<br /><i>Patricia Ewick and Austin Sarat</i></p> <p><b>Part I Setting the Stage 1</b></p> <p>1 What is Law and Society? Definitional Disputes 3<br /><i>Susan M. Sterett</i></p> <p>2 Charting the “Classics” in Law and Society: The Development of the Field over the Past Half?]Century 18<br /><i>Calvin Morrill and Kelsey Mayo</i></p> <p><b>Part II Approaches to the Study of Law as a Social Phenomenon 37</b></p> <p>3 Mapping a Cultural Studies of Law 39<br /><i>Naomi Mezey</i></p> <p>4 Approaches to the Study of Law as a Social Phenomenon: Legal History 56<br /><i>Kunal M. Parker</i></p> <p>5 Legal Ethnographies and Ethnographic Law 71<br /><i>Susan Bibler Coutin and Veronique Fortin</i></p> <p>6 Just a Thought? Instantiations and Constructions of Procedural Justice 85<br /><i>Mary R. Rose</i></p> <p><b>Part III Institutional Processes and Actors 103</b></p> <p>7 Lawyers and the Legal Profession 105<br /><i>Ronit Dinovitzer and Bryant Garth</i></p> <p>8 Courts and Judges: The Legitimacy Imperative and the Importance of Appearances 118<br /><i>Keith J. Bybee and Angela G. Narasimhan</i></p> <p>9 Jurors and Juries 134<br /><i>Nancy S. Marder</i></p> <p>10 Upside Down and Inside Out: Regulators and Regulatory Processes in Contemporary Perspective 150<br /><i>Bronwen Morgan</i></p> <p>11 Using Public Law to Shape Private Organizations 168<br /><i>Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Nash</i></p> <p>12 Police and Policing 183<br /><i>Jennifer D. Wood</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Domains of Legal Policy 197</b></p> <p>13 Domains of Policy: Law and Society Research on the Family 199<br /><i>Annie Bunting</i></p> <p>14 Domains of Policy: Law and Society Perspectives on Antidiscrimination Law 212<br /><i>Donna E. Young</i></p> <p>15 Domains of Policy: Law and Society Perspectives on Punishment and Social Control 228<br /><i>Keramet Reiter</i></p> <p>16 Welfare Law 244<br /><i>Vicki Lens</i></p> <p>17 Immigration Law and Immigrants’ Lived Experiences 258<br /><i>Leisy J. Abrego</i></p> <p>18 The Return of Religion: The Rise, Decline, and Possible Resurrection of Legal Secularism 274<br /><i>Nomi Maya Stolzenberg</i></p> <p>19 Human Rights 291<br /><i>Heinz Klug</i></p> <p>20 More?]than?]Human Legalities: Advocating an “Animal Turn” in Law and Society 307<br /><i>Irus Braverman</i></p> <p>21 Law and Disability 322<br /><i>Katharina Heyer</i></p> <p><b>Part V How Does Law Matter? 337</b></p> <p>22 The Constitution of Identity: Law and Race 339<br /><i>Osagie K. Obasogie</i></p> <p>23 The Constitution of Identity: New Modalities of Nationality, Citizenship, Belonging and Being 351<br /><i>Eve Darian</i><i>?]</i><i>Smith</i></p> <p>24 The Past, Present, and Future of Rights Scholarship 367<br /><i>Jeffrey R. Dudas, Jonathan Goldberg</i><i>?]</i><i>Hiller and Michael W. McCann</i></p> <p>25 Law and Social Movements: Old Debates and New Directions 382<br /><i>Sandra R. Levitsky</i></p> <p>26 The Rule of Law and Economic Development: Global Scripts, Vernacular Translations 399<br /><i>Ritu Birla</i></p> <p>27 Law and Colonialism: Legacies and Lineages 417<br /><i>Renisa Mawani</i></p> <p>28 Law and Globalism: Law without the State as Law without Violence 433<br /><i>Julieta Lemaitre</i></p> <p>Index 446</p>

<b>Patricia Ewick</b> is Professor of Sociology at Clark University. She is the co-author of <i>The Common Place of Law</i> (1998) and <i>Social Science, Social Policy and Law</i> (1999). She is also former co-editor of <i>Studies in Law, Politics and Society</i> and former Associate Editor of the <i>Law & Society Review.<br /><br /></i><b>Austin Sarat</b> is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College and Hugo L. Black Visiting Senior Scholar at the University of Alabama School of Law. He is the author or editor of more than 90 books, including <i>Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty</i> (2014); <i>When the State Kills: Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture</i> (2002); <i>The</i> <i>Blackwell Companion to Law and Society</i> (Wiley Blackwell, 2004); and <i>Mercy on Trial: What It Means to Stop an Execution</i> (2007).

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