Laws and Societies in Global Contexts: Contemporary Approaches

by Eve Darian-Smith

Book Overview

This text seeks to situate socio-legal studies in a global context. 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 Western international relations model that too often conflates law, culture and the nation-state. A more global socio-legal perspective engages with multiple laws and societies within and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521130719
• ISBN13: 9780521130714
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 434 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"