Richard L Abel
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 178178 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard L Abel |
| NOMBRES | Richard L |
| APELLIDO | Abel |
| FIRMA | ABEL R L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5197-3086 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 653 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
How Autocrats Seek Power
The Fate of Liberal Democracy under Donald Trump
The Trump administration directly attacked and indirectly subverted liberal democracy in many ways. This article describes several pivotal attacks and evaluates the efficacy of efforts to defend liberal democracy. It begins by analyzing how the administration continued to wage the US "war on terror," contrasting its behavior with that of the Bush and Obama administrations with respect to indefinite detention in Guantánamo Bay, torture, electronic…
A Response
Law's Wars, Law's Trials
The rule of law is a foundation of the liberal state. The US ‘War on Terror’ under Presidents Bush and Obama threatened and violated the rule of law in multiple ways. This article surveys those challenges and analyses how US institutions responded in order to assess the capacity of the legal system to resist political pressure in moments of crisis
Law's Wars
The US 'war on terror', which Bush declared and Obama continued, repeatedly violated fundamental rule of law values. Law's Wars: The Fate of the Rule of Law in the US 'War on Terror' is the first comprehensive account of efforts to resist and correct those violations. It focuses on responses to abuses in Abu Ghraib, efforts by Guantánamo Bay detainees to improve conditions of confinement in and win release, exposés of and efforts to end torture a…
Conservative Conflict and the Reproduction of Capitalism
This chapter explores the professed reasons for interest in informal alternatives to courts, develops a model of disputing in society that seeks to show the similarities between formal and informal legal institutions as modes of neutralizing conflict. It utilizes that the model to assess the political significance of contemporary concern with informalism. The chapter examines the claims that advocates of informal justice make for its differences …
Law Under Stress
Law proved a surprisingly powerful instrument in the last years of the struggle against apartheid. It has been a disappointingly weak shield against abuses of power by the US government in its 'war on terror' since 11 September 2001. This article begins a comparison of these two contrasting experiences
Age changes in bone microstructure
Age estimations based on conventional multifactorial methods were compared with trends observed in the internal morphology of bones obtained from high-resolution μCT. Specifically, average trabecular thickness and number of trabeculae/mm transect were determined in the non-load-bearing capitate (hand) and the load-bearing navicular (foot). The μCT findings reveal age-related trends but—surprisingly—these correspond only loosely with the ages assi…
Varieties of Social Discipline
How can actors whose interests diverge and potentially conflict be encouraged to cooperate? That is a central problem for all societies, polities, and economies. Two solutions have dominated the sphere of production: markets and bureaucracies. Markets allow producers to use contracts to exchange factors of production (including labour) and sell their products and services to ultimate consumers. The producers themselves tend to be organized bureau…
Nine Law and Society/Sociology of Law Textbooks and Readers for the 1990s
Politics by Other Means
Politics by Other Means
Public Freedom, Private Constraint
My 1992 Hamlyn Lectures, 'Speech and Respect', addressed the fundamental problem that communication, which makes us human and constructs society, also can inflict some of the greatest harms emotional, reputational, economic, and political on both individuals and collectivities.' I considered and rejected the two extreme responses to this problem: state regulation and what I called civil libertarianism. The latter position, typically an American f…
L'émergence et la transformation des litiges
Felstiner William L. F., Abel Richard L., Sarat Austin. L'émergence et la transformation des litiges : réaliser, reprocher, réclamer. In: Politix, vol. 4, n°16, Quatrième trimestre 1991. Causes entendues - Les constructions du mécontentement (1) sous la direction de Annie Collovald et Brigitte Gaïti. pp. 41-54
Capitalism and the Rule of Law
Few can doubt that the past two years will be remembered as turning points in world history. The collapse or decline of communism in Central Europe, the accelerating pace of change within the Soviet Union (including strong secessionist movements), the first steps toward democracy in South Africa, the reunification of Germany, and now the Persian Gulf crisis (with ramifications throughout the Mideast and for the world economy). What is the directi…
Capitalism and the Rule of Law
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Court Records in Africana Research
A series of panels at the ASA meeting in November 1989 focused on sources and methods for the study of law in colonial Africa. At an informal discussion held afterwards, participants agreed that court records are potentially very valuable sources for historians, anthropologists, and other scholars of Africa but that they have not been used as widely as they might be. In an effort to alert Africanists to the existence of such documents and to enco…
Lawyers, Corporations and Knowledge
Martin Shapiro; Lawyers In Society by Richard L. Abel and Philip S.C. Lewis; The Legal Profession in England and Wales by Richard L. Abel, The American Jou
The Legal Profession in England and Wales
Lawyers in Society, Volume 1
Between Market and State
The Legal Profession in England and Wales
Journal Article The Legal Profession in England and Wales Get access Abel Richard L., The Legal Profession in England and Wales. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988. xxiii, 548 pp. $75.00. Gerard W. Gawalt Gerard W. Gawalt Library of Congress Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 33, Issue 4, October 1989, Pages 403–404, https://doi.org/10.2307/845303 Published: 01 October 1…
The legal profession in England and Wales
The Decline of Professionalism? 1
The Transformation of the American Legal Profession
Professions are historically specific institutions for organizing the production and distribution of services. American lawyers constructed the contemporary legal profession between the 1870s and the 1950s by forming local, state, and national bar associations through which they sought, with considerable success, to control the production of and by producers of legal services. In the last two decades, these structures of control have significantl…
The Emergence and Transformation of Disputes
The emergence and transformation of disputes, especially before they enter formal legal institutions, is a neglected topic in the sociology of law. We provide a framework for studying the processes by which unperceived injurious experiences are-or are not-perceived (naming), do or do not become grievances (blaming) and ultimately disputes (claiming), as well as for subsequent transformations. We view each of these stages as subjective, unstable, …
A Comparative Theory of Dispute Institutions in Society
Why study the legal systems of other times or places? Are there reasons beyond an antiquarianism or exoticism that seeks stimulation for a palate jaded by preoccupation with the minutiae of American law? The increased understanding to be gained by such intellectual exploration seems to me similar in origin to the pleasure any of us takes in travel. Differences of physical environment, modes of social intercourse, or patterns of culture awaken us …
Redirecting Social Studies of Law
The essays in this volume offer a wealth of suggestions for new directions in sociolegal research, not only about the particular subjects they themselves address but also, by analogy, about many others. Here I want to approach the task of theoretical reorientation in a different way. While these essays were in progress I had occasion to attempt a critical overview of recent American scholarship in order to identify the questions posed and assess …
L'émergence et la transformation des litiges
Felstiner William L. F., Abel Richard L., Sarat Austin. L'émergence et la transformation des litiges : réaliser, reprocher, réclamer. In: Politix, vol. 4, n°16, Quatrième trimestre 1991. Causes entendues - Les constructions du mécontentement (1) sous la direction de Annie Collovald et Brigitte Gaïti. pp. 41-54
The Transformation of the American Legal Profession
Professions are historically specific institutions for organizing the production and distribution of services. American lawyers constructed the contemporary legal profession between the 1870s and the 1950s by forming local, state, and national bar associations through which they sought, with considerable success, to control the production of and by producers of legal services. In the last two decades, these structures of control have significantl…
Socializing the Legal Profession
Redistributing laywers' services is a principal focus of efforts to reform contemporary legal systems. Such reforms generally attempt to modify the market distribution in oneof two ways: by subsidizing lawyers for the unrepresented, or by rendering lawyers unnecessary through deprofessionalization. This essay analyzes the contribution that redistribution could make to social (rather than formal) justice by extrapolating the consequences of the gr…
Customary Laws of Wrongs in Kenya
Journal Article Customary Laws of Wrongs in Kenya An Essay in Research Method Get access Richard L. Abel Richard L. Abel 1Richard L. Abel is Assistant Professor of Law, Yale University. B.A., Harvard, 1962; LL.B., Columbia, 1965. Field research on which this paper is based was conducted under a fellowship granted by the Foreign Area Fellowship Program, from September 1967 to November 1968. However, the conclusions, opinions, and other statements …
Law as Lag
Law Books and Books about Law
Age changes in bone microstructure
Age estimations based on conventional multifactorial methods were compared with trends observed in the internal morphology of bones obtained from high-resolution μCT. Specifically, average trabecular thickness and number of trabeculae/mm transect were determined in the non-load-bearing capitate (hand) and the load-bearing navicular (foot). The μCT findings reveal age-related trends but—surprisingly—these correspond only loosely with the ages assi…
The Decline of Professionalism? 1
The Sociology of American Lawyers
Court Records in Africana Research
A series of panels at the ASA meeting in November 1989 focused on sources and methods for the study of law in colonial Africa. At an informal discussion held afterwards, participants agreed that court records are potentially very valuable sources for historians, anthropologists, and other scholars of Africa but that they have not been used as widely as they might be. In an effort to alert Africanists to the existence of such documents and to enco…
Taking Stock
This collection, which brings together critical reviews of the literature on a variety of contemporary issues in law and social science, has its origins in two judgments about our field that may appear contradictory but in fact are complementary. On the one hand, the empirical data and generalizations produced during the last several decades seem to call for, and amply to deserve, compilation and summary of the kind often found in propositional i…
Between Market and State
Lawyers, Corporations and Knowledge
Martin Shapiro; Lawyers In Society by Richard L. Abel and Philip S.C. Lewis; The Legal Profession in England and Wales by Richard L. Abel, The American Jou
Varieties of Social Discipline
How can actors whose interests diverge and potentially conflict be encouraged to cooperate? That is a central problem for all societies, polities, and economies. Two solutions have dominated the sphere of production: markets and bureaucracies. Markets allow producers to use contracts to exchange factors of production (including labour) and sell their products and services to ultimate consumers. The producers themselves tend to be organized bureau…
Lawyers and the Power to Change
Règlement formel et informel des conflits
Cet article examine l'importance des voies formelles et informelles de règlement des conflits par les tribunaux , développe un modèle d'analyse destiné à montrer les similarités entre ces deux modalités ; propose des illustrations de ce modèle prises dans la vie américaine , puis l'utilise pour affirmer la signification politique de l'intérêt contemporain pour toute institution informelle
A Bibliography of the Customary Laws of Kenya (with Special Reference to the Laws of Wrongs)
This bibliography was developed in the course of research in the customary laws of wrongs in Kenya, and is therefore most thorough with respect to that subject. However, the nature of customary law is such that wrongs do not form a sharply differentiated substantive area. Moreover, other bodies of law–e.g., those pertaining to the family, to property rights, to procedural matters–clearly bear on the treatment of wrongs. Consequently, most sources…
Customary Laws of Wrongs in Kenya
Journal Article Customary Laws of Wrongs in Kenya An Essay in Research Method Get access Richard L. Abel Richard L. Abel 1Richard L. Abel is Assistant Professor of Law, Yale University. B.A., Harvard, 1962; LL.B., Columbia, 1965. Field research on which this paper is based was conducted under a fellowship granted by the Foreign Area Fellowship Program, from September 1967 to November 1968. However, the conclusions, opinions, and other statements …
Books
Law Books and Books about Law
Reply to Max Gluckman
I am writing in reaction to the article by Spaeth, Meltz, Rathjen and Haselswerdt, “Is Justice Blind: An Empirical Investigation of a Normative Ideal,” which appeared in vol. 7, no. 1. The authors attempt to support the Aristotelian myth that blind justice can systematically obtain. The premise in the myth is fallacious, and confirmation of the authors' research hypothesis in three of their five data sets cannot therefore be an adequate basis for…
Rejoinder to Professor Spalding
Professor Spalding's response to my review is marred by some egregious errors -- e.g., his confusion of the concepts of "hypothesis" and "value," which are used interchangeably and often incorrectly. He also indulges in intemperate and inappropriate language, as I believe a careful reading of my review and his reply will show. I hope, however, that the handful of readers whose interest is piqued by this debate are not simply entertained by its rh…
A Comparative Theory of Dispute Institutions in Society
Why study the legal systems of other times or places? Are there reasons beyond an antiquarianism or exoticism that seeks stimulation for a palate jaded by preoccupation with the minutiae of American law? The increased understanding to be gained by such intellectual exploration seems to me similar in origin to the pleasure any of us takes in travel. Differences of physical environment, modes of social intercourse, or patterns of culture awaken us …
Max Gluckman 1911-1975
Brief Noted
The Problem of Values in the Analysis of Political Order Myths of Tribal Society and Liberal Democracy
Comparative Law and Social Theory
Journal Article Comparative Law and Social Theory Get access Richard L. Abel Richard L. Abel 1Richard L. Abel is Professor of Law, University of California School of Law, Los Angeles. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 26, Issue 2, Spring 1978, Pages 219–226, https://doi.org/10.2307/839670 Published: 01 April 1978
The Rise of Professionalism
Socializing the Legal Profession
Redistributing laywers' services is a principal focus of efforts to reform contemporary legal systems. Such reforms generally attempt to modify the market distribution in oneof two ways: by subsidizing lawyers for the unrepresented, or by rendering lawyers unnecessary through deprofessionalization. This essay analyzes the contribution that redistribution could make to social (rather than formal) justice by extrapolating the consequences of the gr…
Social Anthropology and Law
Journal Article Social Anthropology and Law Get access Social Anthropology and Law.Hamnett Ian (ed.). London: Academic Press, 1977. Pp. viii,234. Richard L. Abel Richard L. Abel * Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 28, Issue 1, Winter 1980, Pages 128–135, https://doi.org/10.2307/839743 Published: 01 January…
The Sociology of American Lawyers
Taking Stock
This collection, which brings together critical reviews of the literature on a variety of contemporary issues in law and social science, has its origins in two judgments about our field that may appear contradictory but in fact are complementary. On the one hand, the empirical data and generalizations produced during the last several decades seem to call for, and amply to deserve, compilation and summary of the kind often found in propositional i…
Redirecting Social Studies of Law
The essays in this volume offer a wealth of suggestions for new directions in sociolegal research, not only about the particular subjects they themselves address but also, by analogy, about many others. Here I want to approach the task of theoretical reorientation in a different way. While these essays were in progress I had occasion to attempt a critical overview of recent American scholarship in order to identify the questions posed and assess …
A Critique of American Tort Law
The Emergence and Transformation of Disputes
The emergence and transformation of disputes, especially before they enter formal legal institutions, is a neglected topic in the sociology of law. We provide a framework for studying the processes by which unperceived injurious experiences are-or are not-perceived (naming), do or do not become grievances (blaming) and ultimately disputes (claiming), as well as for subsequent transformations. We view each of these stages as subjective, unstable, …
Règlement formel et informel des conflits
Cet article examine l'importance des voies formelles et informelles de règlement des conflits par les tribunaux , développe un modèle d'analyse destiné à montrer les similarités entre ces deux modalités ; propose des illustrations de ce modèle prises dans la vie américaine , puis l'utilise pour affirmer la signification politique de l'intérêt contemporain pour toute institution informelle
The Politics of informal justice
Law as Lag
The Politics of Informal Justice, Vol. 1
Informalism, Delegalization, and the Future of the American Legal Profession
Rules and Processes
Journal Article Rules and Processes: The Cultural Logic of Dispute In an African Context Get access Rules and Processes: The Cultural Logic of Dispute in an African Context. By John L. Comaroff and Simon Roberts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. Pp. ix, 293. Richard L. Abel Richard L. Abel *Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Jour…
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