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Studies in law, politics, and society. Vol. 45 /
This forty-fifth volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" brings together the work of scholars from several disciplines, work which usefully illuminates central questions surrounding the operation of law and legal systems. Their work offers new perspectives on sentencing and punis...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bingley, UK :
JAI,
2008.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Studies in law, politics, and society ;
v. 45. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Studies in Law, Politics, and Society; Copyright page; Contents; List of contributors; Editorial Board; Part I: On Sentencing and Punishment; Chapter 1. Reconceptualizing victimization and agency in the discourse of battered women who kill; Introduction; Self-defence and the evolution of BWS; Limitations of BWS; Questions of agency and victimization in the discourse of battered women who kill; Sentencing of battered women convicted of manslaughter; Summary; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 2. Contextual constraints on defendants' apologies at sentencing; Notes; Acknowledgements
- Explaining Hyper-PenalityDemocratization, neoliberalism, and Hyper-Penality in the Americas; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Part II: Lawyering for the Public Good?; Chapter 5. Legal aid's logics; Introduction; Governmentality studies; Previous legal aid research; Method; Neo-liberalism's arrival; Pastoralism; Conclusions; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 6. Cause lawyers as legal innovators with and against the state: Symbiosis or oppositionquest; Social movement cause lawyers and state bureaucrats; Cause lawyers and the legal arena in state theory
- Part II: The value of cause lawyers for state actors: legal innovation, competing state institutions, and political re-configurationPart III: Cause lawyer-state interactions in the disaggregated, embedded state; Conclusions; Notes; Acknowledgements; References; Part III: New Perspectives in Legal Doctrine; Chapter 7. Ignored no longer: Contributions of the law of agency to principal-agency theory and congressional leadership; 1. The law of agency; 2. Basics of principal-agent theory; 3. Contributions from agency law to principal-agency theory
- 4. Difficulties and discontinuity brought by agency law5. Concluding thoughts; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 8. Reforming labor law in the Czech republic: International sources of change; Introduction; Theoretical framework; Bureaucratic Imposition: Czech Communism and Labor Law; EU requirements: Bureaucratic voluntarism and Czech labor law; Boundaries to contractualism; The politics of labor law transformation; Conclusions; References