Includes bibliographical references and index.

The art, craft, and science of policing / Martin Innes -- Crime and criminals / Wesley Skogan -- Criminal process and prosecution / Jacqueline Hodgson and Andrew Roberts -- The crime-preventive impact of penal sanctions / Anthony Bottoms and Andrew von Hirsch -- Contracts and corporations / Sally Wheeler -- Financial markets / Julia Black -- Consumer protection / Stephen Meili -- Bankruptcy and insolvency / Robert M. Lawless and Elizabeth Warren -- Regulating the professions / Linda Haller -- Personal injury litigation / Paul Fenn and Neil Rickman -- Claiming behavior as legal mobilization / Herbert M. Kritzer -- Families / Mavis Maclean -- Labor and employment laws / Simon Deakin -- Housing and property / David Cowan -- Human rights instruments / Linda Camp Keith -- Constitutions / David S. Law -- Social security and social welfare / Michael Adler -- Occupational safety and health / Bridget M. Hutter -- Environmental regulation / Cary Coglianese and Catherine Courcy -- Administrative justice / Simon Halliday and Colin Scott -- Access to civil justice / Roderick A. Macdonald -- Judicial recruitment, training, and careers / Peter H. Russell -- Trial courts and adjudication / Sharyn Roach Anleu and Kathy Mack -- Appellate courts / David Robertson -- Dispute resolution / Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow -- Lay decision-makers in the legal process / Neil Vidmar -- Evidence law / Gary Edmond and David Hamer -- Civil procedure and courts / Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow and Bryant G. Garth -- Collective actions / Christopher Hodges -- Law and courts' impact on development and democratization / Catalina Smulovitz -- How does international law work? / Tom Ginsburg and Gregory Shaffer -- Lawyers and other legal service providers / Richard Moorhead -- Legal pluralism / Margaret Davies -- Public images and understandings of courts / James L. Gibson -- Legal education and the legal academy / Fiona Cownie -- The (nearly) forgotten early empirical legal research / Herbert M. Kritzer -- Quantitative approaches to empirical legal research / Lee Epstein and Andrew D. Martin -- Qualitative approaches to empirical legal research / Lisa Webley -- The need for multi-method approaches in empirical legal research / Laura Beth Nielsen -- Legal theory and empirical research / D.J. Galligan -- Empirical legal research and policy-making / Martin Partington -- The place of empirical legal research in the law school curriculum / Anthony Bradney -- Empirical legal training in the US academy / Christine B. Harrington and Sally Engle Merry.