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Are Political— U.S. Law and Policy. . . . . . 2-4
Except When International and
They Are Not Comparative Law . . . . . . . . 5-7
Acceptable Hypo- Law and Crime. . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8
crisies and the
Rule of Law Law and Society. . . . . . . . 9-10
Keith J. Bybee Jurisprudence and
We live in an age where Legal History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
one person’s judicial
“activist” legislating from
the bench is another’s Examination Copy Policy . . . 3
impartial arbiter fairly interpreting the law. After the Ordering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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Law in Many
Societies
A Reader
Edited by Lawrence
M. Friedman, Rogelio
Pérez-Perdomo, and
Manuel A. Gómez
This law and society reader
taps a rich and diverse
literature to compare and
contrast the legal experi-
Law without ence of many different
cultures and nations. Drawing on a variety of meth-
Nations odological approaches, the selections allow students 9
Edited by Austin Sarat,
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Lawrence Douglas, and
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“There is a great deal of novelty
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University of Massachusetts
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