Invitation to Law and Society: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law (Chicago Series in Law and Society) - Softcover

Calavita, Kitty

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226089975 ISBN 13: 9780226089973

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2010

Synopsis

Law and Society is a rapidly-growing interdisciplinary field that turns on its head the conventional, idealized view of the “Law” as a magisterial abstraction. Kitty Calavita’s Invitation to Law and Society brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law shapes and manifests itself in the institutions and interactions of human society, while inviting the reader into conversations that introduce the field’s dominant themes and most lively disagreements. 

Deftly interweaving scholarship with familiar personal examples, Calavita shows how scholars in the discipline are collectively engaged in a subversive exposé of law’s public mythology. While surveying prominent issues and distinctive approaches to the use of the law in everyday life, as well as its potential as a tool for social change, this volume provides a view of law that is more real but just as compelling as its mythic counterpart. In a field of inquiry that has long lacked a sophisticated yet accessible introduction to its ways of thinking, Invitation to Law and Society will serve as an engaging and indispensible guide.

About this title

About the Author:

Kitty Calavita is Chancellor’s Professor in the Departments of Criminology, Law and Society, and Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of several volumes, most recently including Immigrants at the Margins: Law, Race, and Exclusion in Southern Europe.

Review:

"Invitation to Law and Society is an excellent addition to the field. Refreshingly lucid, Calavita offers a thought-provoking introduction and fruitful resource - one that should be read through from start to finish." - Laura Beth Nielsen, Northwestern University.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0226089975
• ISBN 13: 9780226089973
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192