ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LAW AND SOCIETY (THREE-VOLUME SET)

There are two aspects of scholarship about the legal systems of our day that are especially salient - one being for the first time there is a fair amount of genuine research on legal systems, and two, that this research is increasingly global. As soon as you cross a jurisdictional line, even if it separates countries that are very similar, you enter a different legal system. It cannot be assumed that any particular rule, doctrine, or practice is the same in any two jurisdictions, regardless of how close these jurisdictions are, in terms of history and tradition. The Encyclopedia of Law and Society is the largest comprehensive and international treatment of the law and society field. With an Advisory Board of 62 members from 20 countries and six continents, the three volumes of this state-of-the-art resource represent interdisciplinary perspectives on law from Sociology, Criminology, Cultural Anthropology, Political Science, Social Psychology, and Economics. By globalizing the encyclopedia’s coverage, American and international law and society will be better understood within its historical and comparative context.