By John G. Culhane, author of More Than Marriage: Forming Families after Marriage Equality
The law generally does a poor job in supporting adults in various kinds of relationships. Unless a couple (or any other group of committed adults) is legally married, they are largely invisible t...
Putting readers at the defense table, this book forces us to consider how any of us might be swept up in the system, whether we hired a bad lawyer, bear a slight resemblance to someone else in the world, or are not good with awkward silence. The stories of Brooks’s cases and clients pa...
By Julie C. Suk, author of After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It
May 25th marked the fifth anniversary of the vote in 2018 to repeal Ireland’s constitutional ban on abortion. At the time, women in the United States exercised a constitutionally protected right...
By Sahar Aziz, author of The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom
On his first day in office, President Biden repealed the “Muslim Ban,” an executive order issued by Trump on January 27, 2017. This repeal was a welcome development for the hundreds of thousands of Muslim...
By Dan A. Farber, author of Contested Ground: How to Understand the Limits of Presidential Power
Almost ninety years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling known as the “Sick Chicken Case” — or more formally, Schechter Poultry v. United States. Until recently, this New Deal-...
As part of our ongoing Editor Spotlight Series, we connected with UC Press Executive Editor Maura Roessner to talk about her Criminology, Law, and Society program, and how she spots the right projects and authors. Maura also shares details about how she became an editor and advice for aut...
Book proposals are wonderful tools to develop and help you clarify your thoughts, to find a way to express your thesis clearly and succinctly. It’s also what you’ll need to persuade a publishing house that your idea is a great fit for their press and their mission.
This past spring, U...
For the Law and Society Association virtual conference, UC Press Senior Editor Maura Roessner will be on the panel Writing Academic Books on Sunday May 31st at 1 – 2:45 p.m. Eastern Time. Panelists will demystify how academic publishing works and answer questions such as “What kinds o...
Congratulations to Kitty Calavita and Valerie Jenness, authors of Appealing to Justice: Prisoner Grievances, Rights, and Carceral Logic, for their awards at the 2019 Law and Society Association conference. #LSADC19
2019 LSA Legacy Award
Kitty Calavita has won the 2019 LSA Lega...
This updated post is published in conjunction with the Law and Society Association conference in Washington, D.C., May 30 – June, 2, 2019. #LSADC19
By Jennifer Musto, author of Control and Protect: Collaboration, Carceral Protection, and Domestic Sex
The passage of the Senate bill ...