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Malcolm Feeley is one of the founding giants of the law and society field, whose vast scholarship examines legal process from the inner workings of criminal courts to the possibility of prison reform. This volume offers essays by leading law and society scholars who reflect on, analyze, and expand Feeley's scholarship.
List of contents
Introduction Jonathan Simon, Hadar Aviram and Rosann Greenspan; Part I. The Process is the Punishment: 1. Adversarial bias and the criminal process: infusing the organizational perspective on criminal courts with insights from behavioral science Hadar Aviram; 2. Malcolm Feeley's concept of law Issa Kohler-Hausmann; 3. Process as intergenerational punishment: are children casualties of parental court experiences? Kay Levine and Volkan Topalli; 4. The process is the problem Shauhin Talesh; Part II. Court Reform on Trial: 5. Vaping on trial: e-cigarettes, law, and society Eric Feldman; 6. Japanese court reform on trial David T. Johnson and Setsuo Miyazawa; 7. Court reform and comparative criminal justice David Nelken; 8. The birth of the penal organization: why prisons were born to fail Ashley T. Rubin; 9. The misbegotten: infanticide in Victorian England Lawrence M. Friedman; Part III. Judicial Policymaking and the Modern State: 10. Judicial deference in the modern state Lauren B. Edelman; 11. Judges, labor, and economic inequality Paul Frymer; 12. Administrative 'states' of judicial policy on gender-motivated violence Christine B. Harrington; 13. Can courts abolish mass incarceration? Jonathan Simon; 14. Policy making by out-of-court settlements: intelligence informers at the Israeli High Court of Justice Menachem Hofnung; Part IV. Political Liberalism and the Legal Complex: 15. The international legal complex: Wang Yu and the global response to repression of China's political lawyers Terence C. Halliday; 16. The legal profession's promise of justice: choices and challenges in legal and socio-legal work Mark Fathi Massoud; 17. The varieties of judicial independence and the judiciary's role in political reform Edward L. Rubin; 18. The legal complex and lawyers-in-chief Kim Lane Scheppele.
Summary
Malcolm Feeley is one of the founding giants of the law and society field, whose vast scholarship examines legal process from the inner workings of criminal courts to the possibility of prison reform. This volume offers essays by leading law and society scholars who reflect on, analyze, and expand Feeley's scholarship.
