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Introduction / Erik Larson and Patrick Schmidt -- Do the "haves" still come out ahead? / Joel B. Grossman, Herbert M. Kritzer, and Stewart Macaulay -- The rule of law and the litigation process : the paradox of losing by winning / Catherine Albiston -- The good case: decisions to litigate at the World Trade Organization / Joseph A. Conti -- Convictability and discordant locales: reproducing race, class, and gender ideology in prosecutorial decisionmaking / Lisa Frohmann -- The reconstitution of law in local settings : agency discretion, ambiguity, and a surplus of law in policing hate crime / Ryken Grattet and Valerie Jenness -- Popular constitutionalism's hard when you're not very popular : why the ACLU turned to courts / Emily Zackin -- Beyond backlash: assessing the impact of judicial decisions on LGBT rights / Thomas M. Keck -- Explaining corporate environmental performance : how does regulation matter? / Robert A. Kagan, Dorothy Thornton, and Neil Gunningham -- The "compliance" trap : the moral message in responsive regulatory enforcement / Christine Parker -- Labor regulation, corporate governance, and legal origin : a case of institutional complementarity? / Beth Ahlering and Simon Deakin -- Internal dispute resolution : the transformation of civil rights in the workplace / Lauren B. Edelman, Howard S. Erlanger, and John Lande -- The privatization of public legal rights : how manufacturers construct the meaning of consumer law / Shauhin A. Talesh -- Do rankings matter? : the effects of U.S. News & World Report rankings on the admissions process of law schools / Michael Sauder and Ryon Lancaster -- Lawyer satisfaction in the process of structuring legal careers / Ronit Dinovitzer and Bryant G. Garth -- The changing character of lawyers' work : Chicago in 1975 and 1995 / John P. Heinz, Edward O. Laumann, Robert L. Nelson, and Ethan Michelson -- Lawyers, mediation, and the management of divorce practice / Craig A. McEwen, Lynn Mather, and Richard J. Maiman -- The impact of legal counsel on outcomes for poor tenants in New York City's Housing Court : results of a randomized experiment / Carroll Seron, Gregg Van Ryzin, Martin Frankel, and Jean Kovath -- Cause lawyering in transnational perspective : national conflict and human rights in Israel/Palestine / Lisa Hajjar -- A new social constructionism for sociolegal studies / Elizabeth Mertz -- Litigating within relationships : disputes and disturbance in the regulatory process / Cary Coglianese -- Pursuing rights and getting justice on China's ethnic frontier, 1949-1966 / Neil J. Diamant -- Framing the choice between cash and the courthouse : experiences with the 9/11 / Victim Compensation Fund / Gillian K. Hadfield -- Justice excused : the deployment of law in everyday political encounters / George I. Lovell -- Three strikes and you are out, but why? : the psychology of public support for punishing rule breakers / Tom R. Tyler and Robert J. Boeckmann -- Situating legal consciousness : experiences and attitudes of ordinary citizens about law and street harassment / Laura Beth Nielsen -- Idle rights: employees' rights consciousness and the construction of sexual harassment policies / Anna-Maria Marshall -- Mobilizing the law in china : "informed disenchantment" and the development of legal consciousness / Mary E. Gallagher -- Competing institutions : law, medicine, and family in neonatal intensive care / Carol A. Heimer -- Challenging medicine : law, resistance, and the cultural politics of childbirth / Katherine Beckett and Bruce Hoffman -- Alternative readings : the status of the Status of Children Act in Antigua and Barbuda / Mindie Lazarus-Black -- Landscapes of the law : injury, remedy, and social change in Thailand / David M. Engel -- Truth, reconciliation, and the creation of a human rights culture in South Africa / James L. Gibson -- Rights, religion, and community : approaches to violence against women in the context of globalization / Sally Engle Merry -- Merchants of law as moral entrepreneurs : constructing international justice from the competition for transnational business disputes / Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth -- National politics as international process : the case of anti-female genital cutting laws / Elizabeth Heger Boyle and Sharon E. Preves -- Through a green lens : construction of customary environmental law and community in Indonesia's Muluku Islands / Charles Zerner -- Unsuitable suitors : anti-miscegenation laws, naturalization laws, and the construction of Asian identities / Deenesh Sohoni -- Think of the hippopotamus : rights consciousness in the fat acceptance movement / Anna Kirkland -- Legitimizing american indian sovereignty : mobilizing the constitutive power of law through institutional entrepreneurship / Erich W. Steinman -- Blue jeans, rape, and the "de-constitutive" power of law / Kitty Calavita -- Do blind people see race : social, legal, and theoretical considerations / Osagie K. Obasogie -- From legal realism to law and society : reshaping law for the last stages of the social activist state / Bryant Garth and Joyce Sterling -- What counts as knowledge? : a reflection on race, social science, and the law / Rachel F. Moran. |
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