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The Oxford Handbook of Administrative Justice provides a wide-ranging, globally-minded overview of the administrative decisions made by public authorities that affect individual citizens and the mechanisms available for the provision of redress. The Handbook identifies and provides a survey of key transnational themes in administrative justice research, considers theoretical and methodological approaches to administrative justice, and provides...

Nobody's Law shows how people - who are disappointed, disenchanted, and outraged about the justice system - gradually move away from law. Using detailed case studies and combining different theoretical perspectives, this book explores the legal consciousness of ordinary people, businessmen, and street-level bureaucrats in the Netherlands. The empirical research in this study tells an original and alternative narrative about the role of law in ...

Eugen Ehrlich (1862-1922) was an eminent Austrian legal theorist and professor of Roman law. He is considered by many as one of the 'founding fathers' of modern sociology of law. Although the importance of his work (including his concept of 'living law') is widely recognized, Ehrlich has not yet received the serious international attention he deserves. Therefore, this collection of essays is aimed at 'reconsidering' Eugen Ehrlich by discussing...

Presenting case studies from various parts of the world -- the United States, Canada, Australia, Israel, and the United Kingdom -- this landmark text offers an interdisciplinary empirical perspective on judicial review's impact on bureaucracies. Individual chapters consider fundamental conceptual and methodological issues. The volume will significantly advance the research agenda concerning judicial review and its relationship to social change.