This paper reviews the contribution of qualitative methods to health services research (HSR)
and discusses some of the issues involved in recognizing quality in such work. The place of …

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of law and the Law and Society Association—gap studies dominated much of sociolegal …

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This is the 2nd edition of Gavrielides' 2007 monograph “Restorative Justice Theory &
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Much research in the sociology of law seeks to play a role informing policymakers about the
effects of particular policy initiatives and to participate in debates about how to use law as an …

The objective of this study is to determine to what extent the land law reform which was
implemented in Cameroon in 1974 caused dislocations of local norms, and to what extent it …

Studying Chinese law from a linguistic and communicative perspective, this book examines
meaning and language in Chinese law. It investigates key notions and concepts of law, the …

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scholarship. Examining the most influential research produced over the past two decades …

This paper introduces this Special Number. The work of the Project Group Legal Pluralism at
the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle aims to continue the rapid …