Richard Abel
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3604498 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard Abel |
| PRENOMES | Richard |
| SOBRENOME | Abel |
| ASSINATURA | ABEL R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-4694-285X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 78 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 663 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1969 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Remembering Keebet
At Home with Polly and Henry
This essay addresses the question: what distinguished the popular Drew comedies (1915–1919)? First, in what essentially were situation comedies, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew played a white middle-class couple who squabbled over issues or disagreements, usually minor but sometimes not, that were resolved through deft deceptions. Second, and most important, not only was Mrs. Drew (1890–1925) an accomplished comedienne, but she also scripted all of the …
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…
The Dice Are Loaded
Research shows that social class differences in high school sports participation are large and growing. However, focusing on sports participation may obfuscate large social class differences in sports performance among participants. The authors develop theoretical predictions on the basis of exclusion (middle-class youth perform sports better) and inclusion (working-class youth perform sports better). To test these predictions, the authors analyz…
French Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 2
French Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 2
The early years
African Law Studies was the predecessor of the Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, published from 1969 to 1980. In a short overview of these early years of the journal, Richard Abel, one of the former editors-in-chief, shares his experiences with the journal in a period when it was still Africa-focused but when the foundations were laid for both the wider geographical scope and the conceptual-theoretical focus on legal pluralism
The Middleman of the Movies
This essay argues that the US film rental exchange—too often neglected in cinema histories—served as an essential link that ensured the efficient distribution of motion pictures, from production to exhibition. To support that argument, it offers a model of historiographical research by putting in play overlapping, multiple histories of the exchange and its operations from 1915 through 1919. First, it looks at the exchange branch offices operated …
Silent Serial Sensations
Ted Wharton (1875–1931) and Leo Wharton (1870–1927), who were they? Histories of early American cinema barely mention them or the Wharton Brothers Studio in Ithaca, New York. What did they do? They produced some of the most popular serials, from The Exploits of Elaine (1914–1915), starring Pearl White, to Beatrice Fairfax (1916), with young Grace Darling, and Patria (1917), starring the dancer Irene Castle. In telling their story and recovering i…
French Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1
French Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1
A Response
Legal pedagogy and its discontents
I taught torts and legal profession at six US law schools over the course of forty years (1969–2008). This paper describes my efforts to incorporate socio-legal studies and critical legal studies into my teaching and my reflections on how successful this was
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 …
Immigrant Publishers
In first third of twentieth century, publishing industry in United Kingdom and United States was marked by well-established and comfortable traditions pursued by family-dominated firms. The British trade was preserve of self-satisfied men entirely certain of their superiority in world of letters; their counterparts in North America were blissfully unaware of development and trends outside their borders. In this unique historical analysis, Richard…
John Griffiths 1940–2017
What else is sociology of law? Reflection on John Griffiths's What is sociology of law
John Griffiths's characteristically ambitious and tendentious paper “What Is Sociology of Law?” (see the previous issue of this journal) has forced me to reflect about the foundations of our field
Politics By Other Means
Politics by Other Means explores the fundamental question of how law can constrain political power by offering a pathbreaking account of the triumphant final decade of the struggle against apartheid. Richard Abel presents case studies of ten major legal campaigns including: challenges to pass laws; black trade union demands for recognition; state terror; censorship; resistance to the "independent" homelands; and treason trials.
In memoriam – Simon Roberts (1941–2014)
Notes1. In Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Fernanda Pirie (eds.), Order and Disorder: Anthropological Perspectives (2007)
Dummy Article Title
The extent to which English law remedies injury to autonomy (ITA) as a stand-alone actionable damage in negligence is disputed. In this article I argue that the remedy available is not only partial and inconsistent (Keren-Paz in Med Law Rev, 2018) but also gendered and discriminatory against women. I first situate the argument within the broader feminist critique of tort law as failing to appropriately remedy gendered harms, and of law more broad…
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
Zip!-Zam!-Zowie!’
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…
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
The Decline of Professionalism? 1
The Sociology of American Lawyers
White Man's Justice
The growth of black consciousness - BPC and SASO 1972-74 black consciousness on trial white students on trial from ideas to action - terrorism trials before Soweto 1976 - new dangers, new responses terrorism and torture breaking the structures - terrorism trials after Soweto black revolt on trial - sedition and the Soweto students
Contested Communities
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…
The Dice Are Loaded
Research shows that social class differences in high school sports participation are large and growing. However, focusing on sports participation may obfuscate large social class differences in sports performance among participants. The authors develop theoretical predictions on the basis of exclusion (middle-class youth perform sports better) and inclusion (working-class youth perform sports better). To test these predictions, the authors analyz…
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
The Contribution of the French Literary Avant-Garde to Film Theory and Criticism (1907-1924)
When did serious writers of literature really discover the cinema? The place was France; the time, just before and during the First World War. The principals were two different generations of poets in the Parisian avantgarde. Although similar phenomena occurred elsewhere about this timeItaly (Bruno Corra, F. T. Marinetti), the United States (Vachel Lindsay, Hugo Munsterberg), Russia (Vladimir Mayakovsky), and Sweden (Bo Bergman)-what happened in …
Silent Serial Sensations
Ted Wharton (1875–1931) and Leo Wharton (1870–1927), who were they? Histories of early American cinema barely mention them or the Wharton Brothers Studio in Ithaca, New York. What did they do? They produced some of the most popular serials, from The Exploits of Elaine (1914–1915), starring Pearl White, to Beatrice Fairfax (1916), with young Grace Darling, and Patria (1917), starring the dancer Irene Castle. In telling their story and recovering i…
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…
On the Threshold of French Film Theory and Criticism, 1915-1919
This essay is conceived as an archeological project whose site encompasses some of the earliest writing on the cinema.' In the following pages, I mean to excavate the period of 1915 to 1919 and resurrect the significant texts that intersected with-and sought to either determine or respond to-the historical development of the cinema in France. Although it covers a good number of the same texts, this essay differs substantially from Stuart Liebman'…
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 …
Law Books and Books about Law
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 …
The Contribution of the French Literary Avant-Garde to Film Theory and Criticism (1907-1924)
When did serious writers of literature really discover the cinema? The place was France; the time, just before and during the First World War. The principals were two different generations of poets in the Parisian avantgarde. Although similar phenomena occurred elsewhere about this timeItaly (Bruno Corra, F. T. Marinetti), the United States (Vachel Lindsay, Hugo Munsterberg), Russia (Vladimir Mayakovsky), and Sweden (Bo Bergman)-what happened in …
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 …
Politics of Informal Justice
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…
Abel Gance's Other Neglected Masterwork
Custom, Rules, Administration, Community
The concept of “customary law” often is used to refer to a particular kind of legal rule—one that is oral rather than written, for instance. Such a conception contains a kernel of truth—customary rules are distinctive—but the focus is too narrow. In this essay I want to look at the totality of legal phenomena in a society—rules, processes, institutions, personnel, and ideology—exploring how they are interrelated and how they relate to other socia…
The Politics of Informal Justice
Journal Article The Politics of Informal Justice Get access The Politics of Informal Justice (2 vols.). Ed. by Abel Richard. New York: Academic Press, 1982. Pp. 684. Martin Shapiro Martin Shapiro *Professor of Law and Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 32, Issue 1, Winter 1984, Pages 155–157, https://doi.org/10.…
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