Chua Lynette J., Engel David M.. The Asian Law and Society Reader. Cambridge University Press,2023. — 795 p.. 2023

The first reader on Asian law and society scholarship, this book features reading selections from a wide range of Asian countries – East, South, Southeast and Central Asia – along with original commentaries by the three editors on the theoretical debates and research methods pertinent to the discipline. Organized by themes and topical areas, the reader enables scholars and students to break out of country-specific silos to make theoretical connections across national borders. It meets a growing demand for law and society materials in institutions and universities in Asia and around the world. It is written at a level accessible to advanced undergraduate students and graduate students as well as experienced researchers, and serves as a valuable teaching tool for courses focused on Asian law and society in law schools, area studies, history, religion, and social science fields such as sociology, anthropology, politics, government, and criminal justice. This is just the volume that sociolegal scholars have been waiting for! The Asian Law and Society Reader is an elegantly organized, comprehensive, and access­ible text, analyzing contemporary substantive topics within enduring legacies of colonialism and rapid legal and social transformation. The text illuminates the significance of this innovative and rich body of research for all law and society scholars today - wherever one works in the world. — Eve Darian-Smith, Professor and Chair of Global and International Studies, University of California, Irvine, and coeditor of the Routledge Handbook of Law and Society (202r) This book is a treasure trove of law and society research, spanning a massive diversity of societies and an equally broad array of issues. There is no scholar of the region who will fail to learn from it, and it will be of great use for teaching and research. —Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, and Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago This intelligently curated collection brings together a new generation of Asian law and society research. It is exactly the right starting point for getting up to speed on the diversity of the field, or for anyone who wants to learn more about Asian politics and society through the lens of law. — Rachel Stern, Professor of Law and Political Science and Pamela P. Fong and Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley In the twenty-first century, Asia will surely become another center for law and society scholarship. The inherent diversity of Asia will be further developed and conducive to future-oriented institutional experiments and knowledge innov­ation. From this point of view, the publication of The Asian Law and Society Reader is of great significance. I believe that it is the best introductory guide for Asian law and society research at this stage, and is also an indispensable reference for carrying out law and society education in Asian countries. —Weidong Ji, University Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and President, China Institute for Socio-Legal Studies This book examines the meaning and action of law in diverse Asian societies through a detailed examination of a wide range of issues. Readers will gain in­depth knowledge of various topics and will be able to read the universal significance of law and society studies in Asia. —Yoshitaka Wada, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Waseda University, Tokyo Grounded in rich empirical research, this volume extends the epistemological and methodological imagination of law and society. Intellectual conversations between empirical essays and insightful commentary reveal intellectual jour­neys of scholars and the field itself, achieving both a bird’s-eye view of the field and insights into the lives of ordinary people as they negotiate socio-legal realities on the ground. —Yukiko Koga, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Yale University

Books and textbooks on the discipline History of state and law:

1. Araujo Ana Lucia. Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery. University of Chicago Press,2024. — 1702 Ń€. - 2024 ăîä
2. Benvindo Juliano. The Rule of Law in Brazil: The Legal Construction of Inequality. Hart Publishing,2022. — 265 p. - 2022 ăîä
3. Blom Hans W. (ed.). Sacred Polities, Natural Law and the Law of Nations in the 16th-17th Centuries. Brill,2022. — 361 p. - 2022 ăîä
4. Boodia-Canoo Nandini. Slavery, Indenture and the Law: Assembling a Nation in Colonial Mauritius. Routledge,2022. — 221 p. - 2022 ăîä
5. Burgess Douglas. When Hope and History Rhyme: Natural Law and Human Rights from Ancient Greece to Modern America. Imagine,2022. — 304 p. - 2022 ăîä
6. Boucoyannis Deborah. Kings as Judges: Power, Justice, and the Origins of Parliaments. Cambridge University Press,2021. — 400 p. - 2021 ăîä
7. Anderson Steven. A History of Capital Punishment in the Australian Colonies, 1788 to 1900. Palgrave Macmillan,2020. — 279 p. - 2020 ăîä
8. Armstrong Jackson (ed.). Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe: Scotland and Its Neighbours, 1350-1650. Routledge,2020. — 304 p. - 2020 ăîä
9. BatselĂ© Filip. Liberty, Slavery and the Law in Early Modern Western Europe. Springer International Publishing,2020. — 221 p. - 2020 ăîä
10. Cavanagh Edward (ed.). Empire and Legal Thought: Ideas and Institutions from Antiquity to Modernity. Brill,2020. — 634 p. - 2020 ăîä
11. Chandrachud Chintan. Balanced Constitutionalism: Courts and Legislatures in India and the United Kingdom. Oxford University Press,2017. — 340 p. - 2017 ăîä
12. Ando Clifford (ed.). Citizenship and Empire in Europe, 200-1900: Antonine Constitution after 1800 Years. Franz Steiner Verlag,2016. — 261 p. - 2016 ăîä
13. Brasington Bruce. Order in the Court: Medieval Procedural Treatises in Translation. Brill,2016. — 357 p. - 2016 ăîä
14. Anthony Gordon. Judicial Review in Northern Ireland. Hart Publishing,2014. — 374 p. - 2014 ăîä
15. Bellamy John. Bastard Feudalism and the Law. Routledge,2014. — 195 p. - 2014 ăîä
16. Berry David S.. Transitions in Caribbean Law: Law-Making, Constitutionalism and the Convergence of National and International Law. Ian Randle Publishers,2014. — 311 p. - 2014 ăîä
17. Beattie Cordelia, Stevens Matthew (eds.). Married Women and the Law in Premodern Northwest Europe. Boydell Press,2013. — 264 Ń€. - 2013 ăîä
18. Chiba Masaji (ed.). Asian Indigenous Law: In Interaction with Received Law. Routledge,2013. — 430 p. - 2013 ăîä
19. Black Ann, Bell Gary. Law and Legal Institutions of Asia: Traditions, Adaptations and Innovations. Cambridge University Press,2011. — 428 p. - 2011 ăîä
20. Christenson Ron. Political Trials: Gordian Knots in the Law. Routledge,2011. — 357 p. - 2011 ăîä