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DOES LAW BENEFIT THOSE WITH THE MOST RESOURCES?
1. Do the “Haves” Still Come Out Ahead?
2. The Rule of Law and the Litigation Process: The Paradox of Losing by Winning
3. The Good Case: Decisions to Litigate at the World Trade Organization
HOW DO AUTHORITY AND POWER INFLUENCE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF LAW?
4. Convictability and Discordant Locales: Reproducing Race, Class, and Gender Ideology in Prosecutorial Decisionmaking
5. The Reconstitution of Law in Local Settings: Agency Discretion, Ambiguity, and a Surplus of Law in the Policing of Hate Crime
CAN RIGHTS-BASED LITIGATION ADDRESS INEQUALITIES?
6. Popular Constitutionalism’s Hard When You’re Not Very Popular: Why the ACLU Turned to Courts
7. Beyond Backlash: Assessing the Impact of Judicial Decisions on LGBT Rights
PART II: ORGANIZATIONS AND LAW
WHEN IS REGULATION EFFECTIVE?
8. Explaining Corporate Environmental Performance: How Does Regulation Matter?
9. The “Compliance” Trap: The Moral Message in Responsive Regulatory Enforcement
10. Labor Regulation, Corporate Governance, and Legal Origin: A Case of Institutional Complementarity?
HOW DO REGULATED ORGANIZATIONS INFLUENCE LEGAL OUTCOMES?
11. Internal Dispute Resolution: The Transformation of Civil Rights in the Workplace
12. The Privatization of Public Legal Rights: How Manufacturers Construct the Meaning of Consumer Law
PART III: LAWYERS AND LEGAL WORK
HOW DO HIERARCHIES INFLUENCE THE LEGAL PROFESSION?
13. Do Rankings Matter? The Effects of U.S. News & World Report Rankings on the Admissions Process of Law Schools
14. Lawyer Satisfaction in the Process of Structuring Legal Careers
WHAT FORCES INFLUENCE LAWYERS’ PRACTICES?
15. The Changing Character of Lawyers’ Work: Chicago in 1975 and 1995
16. Lawyers, Mediation, and the Management of Divorce Practice
CAN LAWYERS ADDRESS INEQUALITIES THROUGH SERVICE AND POLITICAL WORK?
17. The Impact of Legal Counsel on Outcomes for Poor Tenants in New York City’s Housing Court: Results of a Randomized Experiment
18. Cause Lawyering in Transnational Perspective: National Conflict and Human Rights in Israel/Palestine
PART IV: LEGAL CONFRONTATIONS—DISPUTING AND LEGAL CONSCIOUSNESS
19. A New Social Constructionism for Sociolegal Studies
WHY DO PEOPLE TURN TO LAW IN DISPUTES?
20. Litigating within Relationships: Disputes and Disturbance in the Regulatory Process
21. Pursuing Rights and Getting Justice on China’s Ethnic Frontier, 1949–1966
HOW DO PEOPLE USE IDEAS AND IDEALS IN LEGAL DISPUTES?
22. Framing the Choice between Cash and the Courthouse: Experiences with the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund
23. Justice Excused: The Deployment of Law in Everyday Political Encounters
HOW DO IDEAS INFLUENCE PEOPLES’ BELIEFS ABOUT LAW?
24. Three Strikes and You Are Out, but Why? The Psychology of Public Support for Punishing Rule Breakers
25. Situating Legal Consciousness: Experiences and Attitudes of Ordinary Citizens about Law and Street Harassment
HOW DOES CONSCIOUSNESS INFLUENCE THE CONSTRUCTION OF LAW?
26. Idle Rights: Employees’ Rights Consciousness and the Construction of Sexual Harassment Policies
27. Mobilizing the Law in China: “Informed Disenchantment” and the Development of Legal Consciousness
PART V: LAW AS AN EMERGENT INSTITUTION
HOW DOES LAW RELATE TO OTHER SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS?
28. Competing Institutions: Law, Medicine, and Family in Neonatal Intensive Care
29. Challenging Medicine: Law, Resistance, and the Cultural Politics of Childbirth
HOW DO LEGAL ORDERS CHANGE WHEN COUNTRIES CHANGE?
30. Alternative Readings: The Status of the Status of Children Act in Antigua and Barbuda
31. Landscapes of the Law: Injury, Remedy, and Social Change in Thailand
32. Truth, Reconciliation, and the Creation of a Human Rights Culture in South Africa
HOW HAS LAW BECOME GLOBAL?
33. Rights, Religion, and Community: Approaches to Violence against Women in the Context of Globalization
34. Merchants of Law as Moral Entrepreneurs: Constructing International Justice from the Competition for Transnational Business Disputes
35. National Politics as International Process: The Case of Anti–Female Genital Cutting Laws
PART VI: LAW AS A PRODUCTIVE INSTITUTION
HOW DOES LAW INFLUENCE GROUP IDENTITY?
36. Through a Green Lens: The Construction of Customary Environmental Law and Community in Indonesia’s Maluku Islands
37. Unsuitable Suitors: Anti-Miscegenation Laws, Naturalization Laws, and the Construction of Asian Identities
CAN GROUPS REMAKE IDENTITY THROUGH LAW?
38. Think of the Hippopotamus: Rights Consciousness in the Fat Acceptance Movement
39. Legitimizing American Indian Sovereignty: Mobilizing the Constitutive Power of Law through Institutional Entrepreneurship
HOW DOES LAW OPERATE AS A SYSTEM OF IDEAS?
40. Blue Jeans, Rape, and the “De-Constitutive” Power of Law
41. Do Blind People See Race? Social, Legal, and Theoretical Considerations
CAN SOCIAL SCIENCE INFORM PROGRESSIVE CHANGE IN LAW?
42. From Legal Realism to Law and Society: Reshaping Law for the Last Stages of the Social Activist State
43. What Counts as Knowledge? A Reflection on Race, Social Science, and the Law
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