Richard Abel
Encyclopedia
Richard L. Abel is Professor of Law (now emeritus), specialist in African Law Studies and renowned socio-legal scholar. He received his B.A. from Harvard University
(1962), his LL.B. from Columbia University
(1965) and his Ph.D. from the University of London
(1974). He has been a member of the UCLA Law faculty since 1974. He is a past president of the Law and Society Association
and editor of the Law & Society Review
.
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
(1962), his LL.B. from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
(1965) and his Ph.D. from the University of London
University of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
(1974). He has been a member of the UCLA Law faculty since 1974. He is a past president of the Law and Society Association
Law and Society Association
The Law and Society Association is an association founded in 1964. Its members come from many fields and countries and are interested in "the place of law in social, political, economic and cultural life". The association publishes the academic journal Law & Society Review.The LSA's executive...
and editor of the Law & Society Review
Law & Society Review
Law & Society Review is an academic journal in the field of law and society. It was established by the Law and Society Association in 1966 and published by Wiley-Blackwell. It has four issues per volume per year....
.
Selected publications
- "Contesting Legality in the United States After September 11", in Fighting for Political Freedom: Comparative Studies of the Legal Complex and Political Liberalism, edited by Terence Halliday, Lucien Karpik, and Malcolm Feeley (Onati International Series in Law and Society). Oxford(2008).
- English Lawyers between Market and State: The Politics of Professionalism (2003),
- Speaking Respect, Respecting Speech (1998);
- Politics by Other Means: Law in the Struggle Against Apartheid, 1980-1994 (1995);
- (edited with Philip S.C. Lewis) Lawyers in Society. An Overview. (1995).
- "Transnational Law Practice", 44 Case Western Reserve Law Review (1993), 737;
- The Politics of Informal Justice (editor, 1982);
- (with William Felstiner and Austin sarat) "The Emergence and Transformation of Disputes: Naming, Blaming, Claiming" 15 Law & Society Review, (1980), 631.