.... Court of Justice Advocate General EU citizenship model of influence legal actors judicial decision making Scholars and practitioners of European law largely agree that the influence of the Advocate General (AG) on the Court of Justice of the EU (the Court) is considerable, difficult to assess...

... of tribal law instantiated therein are constituted by Hopi legal actors through narrative interactions that allow for the articulation of both Anglo-style notions of legal process and Hopi notions of tradition. It shows how Hopi litigants work to co-narrate the settings of their dispute claims as informed...

... and depth. Like the earlier book, this is a study in the use of discretion by legal actors. It is written in the interpretive tradition. This means that law is treated, not as a formal structure of more or less unproblematic rules, but as a constantly shifting, negotiated, emergent matter, a system of mean...

... of the theater to lord it over the arts, over art ) (Birth of Tragedy and the Case of Wagner, 182); Rancière, Philosopher and His Poor, especially 45 7; and Weber, Theatricality as Medium, 31 53. ¹² Fraunce, Arcadian Rhetorike, sig. K3v. 9 vengeance, promise catharsis as closure. The legal actor had to employ...

...This chapter explores the strategies of legal actors and the perceptions of high profile cases in the U.S. and analyzes the consequences of legal cases becoming conflated with social causes in provoking assaults. It focuses on several cases including the Central Park jogger, the murder of Yusef...

... representation legal system police state funded legal aid family law system fathers’ rights over safety judges intimate partner violence lived experience legal systems legal actors coercive control law reform That’s what—everyone thinks “she was so loved”—but if they really stopped to ask...

...Courts play a central role in legal and political processes in many countries in the common law world. Legal actors have a stake in making sure that legal processes and procedures are perceived as legitimate, both by the general population and professionals. Civil procedure, in both common law...

... generate laws. In judicial legal venues, statutes, regulations, and perhaps case law precedents constrain legal actors and limit the range of outcomes. In regulatory wars, the government is always a player, with citizens, not-for-profits, and business interests competing to influence a political choice...