Annual review of law and social science; v.4, 2008.

9780824341046

Annual review of law and social science; v.4, 2008.

Ed. by John Hagan et al.

Annual Reviews

2008

432 pages

$189.00

Hardcover

Series: title

K367

Hagan (Northwestern U.), Scheppele (Princeton U.), and Tyler (New York U.) present a diverse collection of 17 articles by 29 international academics; each originally appeared online at the Annual Reviews website during 2008. Topics addressed include collaborative research networks and interdisciplinary socio- legal scholarship; the forms, function, and history of conditionality; regulatory dynamics and forms from the 19th to the 21st century; the political economy of American Indian gaming; inclusive exclusion or discrimination by inclusion; legal and social science conceptions of employment discrimination; social cognitive science in employment discrimination cases; failures of the soft forensic sciences, and possible remedies; wrongful convictions; the psychology of confessions; forecasting methods in crime and justice; undercover policing in the U.S. and Europe; jury systems worldwide; women in the legal profession; East Asian legal education reform; the countermajoritarian difficulty; and a new sociology of citizenship and human rights. No subject index.

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