Description
Book SynopsisThis volume of Studies in Law, Politics and Society brings together an international and interdisciplinary array of scholars to explore issues on the cutting edge of socio-legal research. They consider the complex connections of liberal democracy, human rights, governance in and through courts, the challenges terrorism poses to criminal law, and the problematics of global governance. Taken together, the chapters in this volume point to exciting new directions for legal scholars.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Overcoming Liberal Democracy: 'Threat Governmentality' and the Empowerment of Intelligence in the UK Investigatory Powers Act;
Christos Boukalas Chapter 2. Judicial Reform and Legal Opportunity Structure: The Emergence of Strategic Litigation Against Femicide in Mexico;
Verónica Michel Chapter 3. Avoiding International Human Rights Law in the Pursuit of Peace;
Chris Kendall Chapter 4. Criminalization and the rights bearing subject: Considering the lived experiences of governance in the juvenile court;
Elizabeth Brown and Amy Smith Chapter 5. Claiming Food Sovereignty: Legal Mobilization in an Era of Global Governance;
Matthew C. Canfield Chapter 6. How Entrapment Still Matters: Partial Successes of Entrapment Claims in Terrorism Prosecutions;
Jesse J. Norris
