Annual Review of Law and Social Science Volume 3: December

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Calavita, Kitty

2007 Annual Review of Law and Social Science

doi:10.1146/annurev.lawsocsci.3.081806.112745

This review examines the scholarship at the intersection of immigration law, race, and identity. Historically, much of the literature has focused on the ways immigration law has constructed, and been constructed by, racial categories. I argue that African American racialization has been a central...

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Accountability, Quantification, and Law

Espeland, Wendy Nelson; Vannebo, Berit Irene

2007 Annual Review of Law and Social Science

doi:10.1146/annurev.lawsocsci.2.081805.105908

Accountability can mean many things, but increasingly it is linked to quantification. This is true in many fields, including law. This review considers how the recent emphasis on quantitative accountability has influenced law and legal practices. Rather than offering a broad survey of...

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How Autonomous Is Law?

Tomlins, Christopher

2007 Annual Review of Law and Social Science

doi:10.1146/annurev.lawsocsci.3.081806.112741

Socio-legal scholars forever debate whether law is the product of internally constructed rules, procedures, and rationales or an effect of external social forces and interests. Traditionally, the debate pitted formalists who defended law's actual autonomy against instrumentalists who claimed law...

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Half Empty, Half Full, or Neither: Law, Inequality, and Social Change in Capitalist Democracies

Stryker, Robin

2007 Annual Review of Law and Social Science

doi:10.1146/annurev.lawsocsci.3.081806.112728

Reviewing research on organizational compliance, the politics of law, law and social movements, law and inequality, and law and social change, this article examines conditions under which legal institutions have more or less capacity to promote inequality-reducing social change in democratic...

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The Rule of Law

Ohnesorge, John K.M.

2007 Annual Review of Law and Social Science

doi:10.1146/annurev.lawsocsci.3.011207.080748

Rule of Law rhetoric is increasingly common, both in U.S. legal literature and in the realm of international governance. In the field of law and economic development, the Rule of Law revival is lead by the international financial institutions (IFIs). Rule of Law discourse has also come to play an...

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Islamic Constitutionalism

Arjomand, Saïd Amir

2007 Annual Review of Law and Social Science

doi:10.1146/annurev.lawsocsci.3.081806.112753

As the first survey of the topic, this review covers Islamic constitutionalism since its emergence a century ago, showing a significant range of historical variation. The first two phases of Islamic constitutionalism are separated by a watershed, the late coming of the age of ideology, which...

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The Emergence, Content, and Institutionalization of Hate Crime Law: How a Diverse Policy Community Produced a Modern Legal Fact

Jenness, Valerie

2007 Annual Review of Law and Social Science

doi:10.1146/annurev.lawsocsci.3.081806.112733

This review provides an overview of the emergence, content, and institutionalization of hate crime law as a unique form of criminal and civil rights law originating in the United States and increasingly finding a home in other countries. From the introduction and politicization of the term hate...

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Restorative Justice: What Is It and Does It Work?

Menkel-Meadow, Carrie

2007 Annual Review of Law and Social Science

doi:10.1146/annurev.lawsocsci.2.081805.110005

This article reviews the now extensive literature on the varied arenas in which restorative justice is theorized and practiced—criminal violations, community ruptures and disputes, civil wars, regime change, human rights violations, and international law. It also reviews—by examining empirical...

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Law and Collective Memory

Savelsberg, Joachim J.; King, Ryan D.

2007 Annual Review of Law and Social Science

doi:10.1146/annurev.lawsocsci.3.081806.112757

Law and collective memory are reciprocally associated. Law steers collective memory, directly but selectively, as trials produce images of the past through the production and presentation of evidence in ritual practices and public discourse. Law affects collective memory indirectly by regulating...

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Law and Lawyers Preparing the Holocaust

Stolleis, Michael

2007 Annual Review of Law and Social Science

doi:10.1146/annurev.lawsocsci.3.081806.112815

After an introduction into the paradoxes of the coexistence of a traditional legal order, oppression, and persecution of opponents and minorities under the National Socialist government in Germany (1933–1945), the article explains how deep the National Socialist ideology penetrated several fields...

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