Consequences : The Impact of Law and Its Complexity.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (418 pages)
Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- PART I: THE IMPORTANCE OF LAW -- 1. So Decried, So Demanded -- The Growth of Law -- Why a Turning to Law? -- Conclusions -- PART II: THE IMPACT OF LAW -- 2. Compliance with Law - Deterrence and Its Alternatives -- Achieving Compliance? -- Compliance and Legitimacy -- Conclusions -- 3. The Complexities of Assessing Impact -- What, If Anything, Is the Problem? -- The Quandary of 'Impartial' Perspective -- The Difficulties of Assessing a Particular Law -- Surprise - Unintended Consequences -- Conclusions -- 4. Six Ideas about the Impact of Law - America the Outlier -- 1. Instrumentalism -- 2. Law Acting in Concert with Social and Political Forces -- 3. Law (Re)Constituting Social and Political Relationships -- 4. The Ineffectiveness of Law -- 5. National Styles of Regulation - 'American Exceptionalism' I -- 6. The Impact of Litigation Regarding Social Change - 'American Exceptionalism' II -- Conclusions -- PART III: THE COMPLEXITY OF LAW'S IMPACT - SOME EXAMPLES -- 5. Punishment - and Capital Punishment -- Deterrence and Crime -- America and Punishment -- 'Le signe spécial et éternel de la barbarie' -- Conclusions -- 6. Smoking - and Waves of Cultural Antagonism -- The Perils of Nicotine - Public Attitudes and Behaviour -- Law and the Curtailment of Smoking -- The Law, Attitudes - and Impact -- Conclusions -- 7. The Environment - Sunshine or Apocalypse? -- The Rise of Environmentalism and the Growth of Law -- Sunshine or Apocalypse?: Accounts of Environmentalism -- The Impact of Environmental Laws -- Conclusions -- 8. Pornography - Fractured Protests, Harms(?), and Unstoppable Technology -- Theoretical Approaches to Pornography -- Does Pornography Harm? -- Canada Experiments -- The Limits of the Law?: Pornography and the Internet -- Conclusions. 9. Discrimination, the Law - and Blacks in America -- The Pervasiveness of Disparity - The Presence of Discrimination? -- Normative Debates Regarding Laws against Discrimination -- Assessing the Impact -- Conclusions -- PART IV: CONCLUSIONS -- 10. Conclusions: The Consequences of Law, the Limits of Litigation, the Need for Pragmatism -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
A timely and erudite investigation of the impact of law on societies, and how this excessive reliance on law, particularly litigation, has generated difficulties in achieving consensus regarding issues of domestic policy.
9781442673267
Law-Philosophy. Sociological jurisprudence. Law-United States.