Law and Society in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Commissioning editor: Mónika Ambrus
Series editors: Kaja Gadowska, Mihaela Şerban, Alexei Trochev
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Law and society is a multidisciplinary and trans-disciplinary field at the intersection of law, humanities, and the social sciences that focuses on law in context and “law in action” within its historical, political, social, economic, and cultural contexts. The series includes volumes that center this interdisciplinary law and society spirit in the post-communist region, reevaluate the role of law in fostering social change in the region, and promote sociolegal knowledge production in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia. The series is open to sociolegal topics from across disciplines, including legal history, legal anthropology, sociology of law, public law, criminology, etc.
Topics of relevance to the series might include:
Law and social change
Rule of law backsliding
Courts and litigation
Law and politics
Disputes
Judicial behavior
The legal profession and other legal actors
Legal culture and legal ideology
Legal consciousness
Everyday legality
Legal pluralism
Social control
Crime and punishment
Regulatory law and governance
Legal history
Transitional justice
Topics at the intersections between law and various other systems (such as law and economics, law and development, etc.)
Keywords: Law and society, sociolegal, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Balkans, post-Soviet, Russia, Eurasia
Geographical Scope: Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia (the post-communist world
Advisory Board
Kathryn Hendley, Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Martin Krygier AM, Gordon Samuels Professor of Law and Social Theory, School of Global and Public Law, UNSW Sydney, Australia
Agnieszka Kubal, Associate Professor, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Law Faculty and Research Fellow, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, UK
Matthew Light, Associate Professor, Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
Gavin Slade, Associate Professor of Sociology, Nazarbayev University, Republic of Kazakhstan
Peter Solomon, Emeritus Professor, Political Science, Law and Criminology, University of Toronto, Canada
Lavinia Stan, Professor of Political Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Marina Zaloznaya, Associate Professor, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University, USA