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The Brazilian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization
Brings together experts from North and South to examine the impact of globalization on the corporate legal environment in Brazil.
Gender and Judging
Does gender make a difference to the way the judiciary works and should work? Or is gender-blindness a built-in prerequisite of judicial objectivity? If gender does make a difference, how might this be defined? These are the key questions posed in this collection of essays, by some 30 authors from the following countries; Argentina, Cambodia, Canada, England, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Kenya, the Netherlands, the Philippines, South Africa, Switzerland, Syria and the United States. The contributions draw on various theoretical approaches, including gender, feminist and sociological theories. The book's pressing topicality is underlined by the fact that well int...
Encyclopedia of Law and Society
Introduction to and survey of the field of law and society. Includes interdisciplinary perspectives on law from sociology, criminology, cultural anthropology, political science, social psychology, and economics.
Leading Works on the Legal Profession
This collection provides an innovative and engaging way of assessing the development of legal profession scholarship and its potential future development by presenting an analysis of the ‘leading works’ of the discipline. The book was written by prominent and emerging international scholars in the field, with each contributor having been invited to select and analyse a work which has for them shed light on what the legal profession is and what it does. The chapters explore the effect that the chosen work has had upon legal profession scholarship as a whole, both within particular jurisdictions and internationally. Contributors also reflect upon the likely implications of the leading work...
Judging Policy
Courts, like other government institutions, shape public policy. But how are courts drawn into the policy process, and how are patterns of policy debate shaped by the institutional structure of the courts? Drawing on the experience of the Brazilian federal courts since the transition to democracy, Judging Policy examines the judiciary's role in public policy debates. During a period of energetic policy reform, the high salience of many policies, combined with the conducive institutional structure of the judiciary, ensured that Brazilian courts would become an important institution at the heart of the policy process. The Brazilian case thus challenges the notion that Latin America's courts ha...
Ibss: Sociology: 1998
Renowned for its international coverage and rigorous selection procedures, this series provides the most comprehensive and scholarly bibliographic service available in the social sciences. Arranged by topic and indexed by author, subject and place-name, each bibliography lists and annotates the most important works published in its field during the year of 1997, including hard-to-locate journal articles. Each volume also includes a complete list of the periodicals consulted.
Making Law Matter
Although many developing countries have environmental statutes, regulations, and resolutions on the books, these laws are rarely enforced and often ignored. Making Law Matter presents the first book-length treatment of an innovative prosecutorial institution, the Brazilian Ministrio Publico, which refashioned itself in the 1980s into a powerful defender of citizen rights in environmental protection, as well as in other areas of public interest such as disability rights, consumer protection, and anticorruption. In Brazil, the offices of prosecutors and courts have become an important forum for resolving environmental conflicts, making environmental law more effective than in the past. Court involvement communicates the end of impunity for violators. It increases the accountability of governmental agencies and provides legal access for citizen complaints. In short, it enhances environmental rule of law. As developing countries continue to seek to reform their legal systems to strengthen democracy and the rule of law, the Brazilian Ministrio Publico must be recognized as a very promising model.
Gender and Careers in the Legal Academy
Why not Faster? Women in the Czech and Czechoslovak Legal Academy / Jan Kober -- Gender and law teaching in Scotland / Peter Robson -- Women's entry and integration into Israel's Legal Academia : history, story, non-story and the men(tor) / Eyal Katvan and Ruth Halperin-Kaddari -- Women Legal Academics in China / Xiaonan Liu -- Women law teachers in the Philippines then, now and six decades in between : the cheerless transformation of a road less travelled to a path oft-chosen for convenience / Emily Sanchez Salcedo -- Madeleine Gevers-Dwelshauvers (1897-1994). A Grande Dame at the Université Libre de Bruxelles / Hans den Tonkelaar -- Compromise, autonomy and courage : Derkje Hazewinkel-Suringa, First Female Law Professor in the Netherlands (1889-1970) / Leny de Groot-van Leeuwen -- Inkeri Anttila, the First Woman Law Professor in Finland (1916-2013) / Harriet Silius -- .
Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies
The world's legal professions have undergone dramatic changes in the 30 years since publication of the landmark three-volume Lawyers in Society, which launched comparative sociological studies of lawyers. This is the first of two volumes in which scholars from a wide range of disciplines, countries and cultures document and analyse those changes. The present volume presents reports on 46 countries, with broad coverage of North America, Western Europe, Latin America, Asia, Australia, North Africa and the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, and former communist countries. These national reports address: the impact of globalisation and neoliberalism on national legal professions (the relationship ...
Global Pro Bono
This book provides the first-ever analysis of the growing yet contested role of pro bono services in access to justice globally.
