Books written by David Nelken

Beyond Law in Context: Developing a Sociological Understanding of Law

Cotterrell, R. (1986), 'Law and Sociology', Journal of Law and Society, 13, 9. ... Graff, G. (1982), “'Keep of the Grass”, “Drop dead” and other indeterminacies: A response to Sanford Levinson', Texas Law Review, 60,405.
Comparative Criminal Justice: Making Sense of Difference

Students and academics in criminology and criminal justice will find this book an invaluable resource. Compact Criminology is an exciting series that invigorates and challenges the international field of criminology.
Comparative Criminal Justice and Globalization

Is globalisation best treated as an inevitable trend or as an interactive process? How can globalisation's effects on space and borders be conceptualised? How does it help to create norms and exceptions?
The Changing Role of Law in Japan: Empirical Studies in Culture, Society and Policy Making

The Changing Role of Law in Japan offers a comparative perspecti
Comparing Legal Cultures

The concept of legal culture, Roger Cotterrell; the concept of legal culture - a reply, Lawrence Friedman; civil litigation as indicators for legal cultures, Erhard Blankenburg; puzzling out legal culture...
Adapting Legal Cultures

This exciting collection looks at the theory and practice of legal borrowing and adaptation in different areas of the world: Europe,the USA and Latin America, S.E. Asia and Japan.
Contrasts in Criminal Justice: Getting from Here to There

This title was first published in 2000: This text tackles the issues raised by comparative research into criminal justice on other cultures. How far does criminal justice reflect general culture?
Crime and Globalization

The contents of this book cover transnational crime and global criminology, crimes of globalization, the global city, human trafficking, policing housemaids, state terrorism and globalization, the Rwandan genocide, and much more.
Comparative Criminal Justice: Making Sense of Difference

Evaluating 'global' trends in crime, risk and security, the book draws upon the author’s experience of working in a number of settings around the world.
European Ways of Law: Towards a European Sociology of Law

The volume should serve as a needed stimulus to a research agenda aimed at uncovering commonalities and divergences in European ways of approaching the law.
Comparative Law: A Handbook

This book fills that gap in teaching at undergraduate level, and for postgraduates will be a starting point for further reading and discussion.
Italian Politics: The Center-left In Power

This book examines the political developments in Italy in 1996.
Italian Politics: The Center-left in Power

In 1996, despite the general elections, cooperation again became part of the political game.In this volume, a collection of experts examine the political developments in Italy in 1996.
Comparative Criminal Justice: Making Sense of Difference

Students and academics in criminology and criminal justice will find this book an invaluable resource. Compact Criminology is an exciting series that invigorates and challenges the international field of criminology.
Gender and Careers in the Legal Academy

Introduction : gender and careers in the legal academy : overview and synthesis / Ulrike Schultz -- Gender and careers in the legal academy in Germany : women's difficult path from pioneers to a (still contested) minority / Ulrike Schultz - ...
Adapting Legal Cultures

... of the American Automobile ( New York : Grossman ) . Naka , N. ( 1996 ) Predicting Outcomes in United States - Japan Trade Negotiations : The Political Process of the Structural Impediments Initiative ( Westport Conn .: Quorum Books ) ...
Comparative Law: A Handbook

This book fills that gap in teaching at undergraduate level, and for postgraduates will be a starting point for further reading and discussion.
Comparing Legal Cultures

This volume cross-examines mainstream approaches to studying legal culture (e.g. those of Friedman and Blankenburg). It includes debates over the concept of legal culture and a variety of case studies of different legal cultures.