Law and Society
Founding editor: W. Wesley Pue
The Law and Society Series explores law as a socially embedded phenomenon. It is premised on the understanding that the conventional division of law from society creates false dichotomies in thinking, scholarship, educational practice, and social life. Books in the series treat law and society as mutually constitutive and seek to bridge scholarship emerging from interdisciplinary engagement of law with disciplines such as politics, social theory, history, political economy, and gender studies.
Women, Film, and Law
Cinematic Representations of Female Incarceration
Women, Film, and Law questions the criminalization of women through an engaging exploration of the women-in- prison film genre.
A Better Justice?
Community Programs for Criminalized Women
Do community programs offer an effective alternative to imprisonment for women within the criminal justice system? A Better Justice? sets out the case.
The Justice Crisis
The Cost and Value of Accessing Law
Based on innovative recent empirical research, The Justice Crisis assesses what is and isn’t working in efforts to improve access to civil and family justice in Canada.
Inalienable Properties
The Political Economy of Indigenous Land Reform
Inalienable Properties explores the contrasting approaches taken by local leaders to property rights and development in four Indigenous communities.
Faith or Fraud
Fortune-Telling, Spirituality, and the Law
Faith or Fraud: Fortune-Telling, Individual Spirituality, and the Law answers an emerging controversy: Should the law’s understanding of religion include the “spiritual but not religious”?
Trustees at Work
Financial Pressures, Emotional Labour, and Canadian Bankruptcy Law
Trustees at Work explores what is means to be considered a deserving debtor in under contemporary Canadian personal bankruptcy law.
