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Classic political and legal study of how the early years of formation of the European Union relied on consensus and legal processes -- but not an analogy to federalization as in U.S. Constitutional law -- to evolve integration and respect for higher authority than national law. Law and lawyers were involved in these early steps, as shown by political activity and research more than by the customary analysis of doctrine. Part of the Classics of...

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The classic work that revolutionized discussions of the relationship between law and social change is now available in an augmented thirtieth anniversary edition

Americans find street crime terrifying. Yet we seek it out in virtually all of our media: books, newspapers, television, films, and the theatre. This book confronts this cultural contradiction and asks why street crime is regarded in the trivializing images of cops and robbers that attribute crime to the willful acts of flawed individuals.

Foundational and renowned study of how politicians and others use crime rates -- and most of all the public perception of street crime, whether or not it is accurate -- for their own purposes. Dr. Scheingold also provides a theoretical and historical basis for his views. The follow-up to the landmark The Politics of Rights, this book is both supported in research and accessible and interesting to readers everywhere. - Features a new Foreword b...

Reveals how novels of political estrangement have drawn on cultural narratives to capture the zeitgeist of the 20th Century and the disillusionment of modernism. In this book, the author adds political novels to those inquiries and argues that they make a distinctive and hitherto neglected contribution to the collective memory of the 20th Century.

This superb new book . . . is a rich synthesis of several decades of research on cause lawyers and cause lawyering. . . . (It) is a must-read for all scholars and students interested in cause lawyers and the intersection between law and politics in the U.S."--The Law and Politics Book Review"Scheingold and Sarat have produced an excellent synthesis of the existing research on cause lawyers and lawyering. They have done us all a great service i...