Patricia Ewick is Professor of Sociology at Clark University. She is the co-author of The Common Place of Law (1998) and Social Science, Social Policy and Law (1999). She is also former co-editor of Studies in Law, Politics and Society and former Associate Editor of the Law & Society Review.Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College and Hugo L. Black Visiting Senior Scholar at the University of Alabama School of Law. He is the author or editor of more than 90 books, including Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty (2014); When the State Kills: Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture (2002); The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society (Wiley Blackwell, 2004); and Mercy on Trial: What It Means to Stop an Execution (2007).

• Notes on Contributors viiiOn the Emerging Maturity of Law and Society: An Introduction  xiiiPatricia Ewick and Austin SaratPart I Setting the Stage 11 What is Law and Society? Definitional Disputes 3Susan M. Sterett2 Charting the “Classics” in Law and Society: The Development of the Field over the Past Half]Century 18Calvin Morrill and Kelsey MayoPart II Approaches to the Study of Law as a Social Phenomenon 373 Mapping a Cultural Studies of Law 39Naomi Mezey4 Approaches to the Study of Law as a Social Phenomenon: Legal History 56Kunal M. Parker5 Legal Ethnographies and Ethnographic Law 71Susan Bibler Coutin and Veronique Fortin6 Just a Thought? Instantiations and Constructions of Procedural Justice 85Mary R. RosePart III Institutional Processes and Actors 1037 Lawyers and the Legal Profession 105Ronit Dinovitzer and Bryant Garth8 Courts and Judges: The Legitimacy Imperative and the Importance of Appearances 118Keith J. Bybee and Angela G. Narasimhan9 Jurors and Juries 134Nancy S. Marder10 Upside Down and Inside Out: Regulators and Regulatory Processes in Contemporary Perspective 150Bronwen Morgan11 Using Public Law to Shape Private Organizations 168Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Nash12 Police and Policing 183Jennifer D. WoodPart IV Domains of Legal Policy 19713 Domains of Policy: Law and Society Research on the Family 199Annie Bunting14 Domains of Policy: Law and Society Perspectives on Antidiscrimination Law 212Donna E. Young15 Domains of Policy: Law and Society Perspectives on Punishment and Social Control 228Keramet Reiter16 Welfare Law 244Vicki Lens17 Immigration Law and Immigrants’ Lived Experiences 258Leisy J. Abrego18 The Return of Religion: The Rise, Decline, and Possible Resurrection of Legal Secularism 274Nomi Maya Stolzenberg19 Human Rights 291Heinz Klug20 More]than]Human Legalities: Advocating an “Animal Turn” in Law and Society 307Irus Braverman21 Law and Disability 322Katharina HeyerPart V How Does Law Matter? 33722 The Constitution of Identity: Law and Race 339Osagie K. Obasogie23 The Constitution of Identity: New Modalities of Nationality, Citizenship, Belonging and Being 351Eve Darian]Smith24 The Past, Present, and Future of Rights Scholarship 367Jeffrey R. Dudas, Jonathan Goldberg]Hiller and Michael W. McCann25 Law and Social Movements: Old Debates and New Directions 382Sandra R. Levitsky26 The Rule of Law and Economic Development: Global Scripts, Vernacular Translations 399Ritu Birla27 Law and Colonialism: Legacies and Lineages 417Renisa Mawani28 Law and Globalism: Law without the State as Law without Violence 433Julieta LemaitreIndex 446

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Patricia Ewick is Professor of Sociology at Clark University. She is the co-author of The Common Place of Law (1998) and Social Science, Social Policy and Law (1999). She is also former co-editor of Studies in Law, Politics and Society and former Associate Editor of the Law & Society Review.Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College and Hugo L. Black Visiting Senior Scholar at the University of Alabama School of Law. He is the author or editor of more than 90 books, including Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty (2014); When the State Kills: Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture (2002); The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society (Wiley Blackwell, 2004); and Mercy on Trial: What It Means to Stop an Execution (2007).

• Notes on Contributors viiiOn the Emerging Maturity of Law and Society: An Introduction  xiiiPatricia Ewick and Austin SaratPart I Setting the Stage 11 What is Law and Society? Definitional Disputes 3Susan M. Sterett2 Charting the “Classics” in Law and Society: The Development of the Field over the Past Half]Century 18Calvin Morrill and Kelsey MayoPart II Approaches to the Study of Law as a Social Phenomenon 373 Mapping a Cultural Studies of Law 39Naomi Mezey4 Approaches to the Study of Law as a Social Phenomenon: Legal History 56Kunal M. Parker5 Legal Ethnographies and Ethnographic Law 71Susan Bibler Coutin and Veronique Fortin6 Just a Thought? Instantiations and Constructions of Procedural Justice 85Mary R. RosePart III Institutional Processes and Actors 1037 Lawyers and the Legal Profession 105Ronit Dinovitzer and Bryant Garth8 Courts and Judges: The Legitimacy Imperative and the Importance of Appearances 118Keith J. Bybee and Angela G. Narasimhan9 Jurors and Juries 134Nancy S. Marder10 Upside Down and Inside Out: Regulators and Regulatory Processes in Contemporary Perspective 150Bronwen Morgan11 Using Public Law to Shape Private Organizations 168Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Nash12 Police and Policing 183Jennifer D. WoodPart IV Domains of Legal Policy 19713 Domains of Policy: Law and Society Research on the Family 199Annie Bunting14 Domains of Policy: Law and Society Perspectives on Antidiscrimination Law 212Donna E. Young15 Domains of Policy: Law and Society Perspectives on Punishment and Social Control 228Keramet Reiter16 Welfare Law 244Vicki Lens17 Immigration Law and Immigrants’ Lived Experiences 258Leisy J. Abrego18 The Return of Religion: The Rise, Decline, and Possible Resurrection of Legal Secularism 274Nomi Maya Stolzenberg19 Human Rights 291Heinz Klug20 More]than]Human Legalities: Advocating an “Animal Turn” in Law and Society 307Irus Braverman21 Law and Disability 322Katharina HeyerPart V How Does Law Matter? 33722 The Constitution of Identity: Law and Race 339Osagie K. Obasogie23 The Constitution of Identity: New Modalities of Nationality, Citizenship, Belonging and Being 351Eve Darian]Smith24 The Past, Present, and Future of Rights Scholarship 367Jeffrey R. Dudas, Jonathan Goldberg]Hiller and Michael W. McCann25 Law and Social Movements: Old Debates and New Directions 382Sandra R. Levitsky26 The Rule of Law and Economic Development: Global Scripts, Vernacular Translations 399Ritu Birla27 Law and Colonialism: Legacies and Lineages 417Renisa Mawani28 Law and Globalism: Law without the State as Law without Violence 433Julieta LemaitreIndex 446

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Patricia Ewick is Professor of Sociology at Clark University. She is the co-author of The Common Place of Law (1998) and Social Science, Social Policy and Law (1999). She is also former co-editor of Studies in Law, Politics and Society and former Associate Editor of the Law & Society Review.Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College and Hugo L. Black Visiting Senior Scholar at the University of Alabama School of Law. He is the author or editor of more than 90 books, including Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty (2014); When the State Kills: Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture (2002); The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society (Wiley Blackwell, 2004); and Mercy on Trial: What It Means to Stop an Execution (2007).

• Notes on Contributors viiiOn the Emerging Maturity of Law and Society: An Introduction  xiiiPatricia Ewick and Austin SaratPart I Setting the Stage 11 What is Law and Society? Definitional Disputes 3Susan M. Sterett2 Charting the “Classics” in Law and Society: The Development of the Field over the Past Half]Century 18Calvin Morrill and Kelsey MayoPart II Approaches to the Study of Law as a Social Phenomenon 373 Mapping a Cultural Studies of Law 39Naomi Mezey4 Approaches to the Study of Law as a Social Phenomenon: Legal History 56Kunal M. Parker5 Legal Ethnographies and Ethnographic Law 71Susan Bibler Coutin and Veronique Fortin6 Just a Thought? Instantiations and Constructions of Procedural Justice 85Mary R. RosePart III Institutional Processes and Actors 1037 Lawyers and the Legal Profession 105Ronit Dinovitzer and Bryant Garth8 Courts and Judges: The Legitimacy Imperative and the Importance of Appearances 118Keith J. Bybee and Angela G. Narasimhan9 Jurors and Juries 134Nancy S. Marder10 Upside Down and Inside Out: Regulators and Regulatory Processes in Contemporary Perspective 150Bronwen Morgan11 Using Public Law to Shape Private Organizations 168Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Nash12 Police and Policing 183Jennifer D. WoodPart IV Domains of Legal Policy 19713 Domains of Policy: Law and Society Research on the Family 199Annie Bunting14 Domains of Policy: Law and Society Perspectives on Antidiscrimination Law 212Donna E. Young15 Domains of Policy: Law and Society Perspectives on Punishment and Social Control 228Keramet Reiter16 Welfare Law 244Vicki Lens17 Immigration Law and Immigrants’ Lived Experiences 258Leisy J. Abrego18 The Return of Religion: The Rise, Decline, and Possible Resurrection of Legal Secularism 274Nomi Maya Stolzenberg19 Human Rights 291Heinz Klug20 More]than]Human Legalities: Advocating an “Animal Turn” in Law and Society 307Irus Braverman21 Law and Disability 322Katharina HeyerPart V How Does Law Matter? 33722 The Constitution of Identity: Law and Race 339Osagie K. Obasogie23 The Constitution of Identity: New Modalities of Nationality, Citizenship, Belonging and Being 351Eve Darian]Smith24 The Past, Present, and Future of Rights Scholarship 367Jeffrey R. Dudas, Jonathan Goldberg]Hiller and Michael W. McCann25 Law and Social Movements: Old Debates and New Directions 382Sandra R. Levitsky26 The Rule of Law and Economic Development: Global Scripts, Vernacular Translations 399Ritu Birla27 Law and Colonialism: Legacies and Lineages 417Renisa Mawani28 Law and Globalism: Law without the State as Law without Violence 433Julieta LemaitreIndex 446

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