Senior researcher in the ISS Governance, Law and Social Justice research group, Dr Jeff Handmaker has been appointed by the President of the Law and Society Association as a member of one of the Association’s standing committees, the International Activities Committee.
The International Activities Committee is responsible for developing programmes that attend to the needs of members of the Association from outside the United States and that promote greater awareness of comparative and transnational scholarship.
About the Law and Society Association
The Law and Society Association is an interdisciplinary scholarly organization committed to social scientific, interpretive, and historical analyses of law across multiple social contexts.
For sociolegal scholars, law is not only the words of official documents. Law also can be found in the diverse understandings and practices of people interacting within domains that law governs, in the claims that people make for legal redress of injustices, and in the coercive power exercised to enforce lawful order. Sociolegal scholars also address evasions of law, resistance and defiance toward law, and alternatives to law in structuring social relations.
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