title: Fighting for Political Freedom: Comparative Studies of the Legal Complex and Political Liberalism (Onati International Series in Law and Society)
author:  Terence C. Halliday 
description: [The] broad coverage is truly impressive and refreshing in itself. When are all these countries, traditions, cultures ever brought together not just in one volume, but in a comparative project? There are more reasons, why this book is remarkable. It reminds the reader of the political relevance of sociology of law and the sociology of profession by covering issues such as Guantnamo and the role of the courts, the war against terrorism and the abolition of rights, authoritarian regimes and the force of law, the legal market and the professions' societal responsibility. Thomas Scheffer and Hyo-Eun Shin The Law &amp; Politics Book Review Vol. 18 No.9 (September 2008) The hallmark of this remarkable volume is the conceptualization of the legal complex and its relationship to political lawyering. Laura J. Hatcher Law and Society Review Vol 43, No 1
zlib_text: Volume 6
  
  Studies in the History of Law and Justice
  
  Series Editors
  
  Mortimer Sellers
  
  University of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  
  Georges Martyn
  
  Legal History Institute, University of Ghent, Gent, Belgium
  
  The purpose of this book series is to publish high quality volumes on the
  history of law and justice.
  
  Legal history can be a deeply provocative and influential field, as
  illustrated by the growth of the European universities and the ius commune ,
  the French Revolution, the American Revolution, and indeed all the great
  movements for national liberation through law. The study of history gives
  scholars and reformers the models and courage to question entrenched
  injustices, by demonstrating the contingency of law and other social
  arrangements.
  
  Yet legal history today finds itself diminished in the universities and legal
  academy. Too often scholarship betrays no knowledge of what went before, or
  why legal institutions took the shape they did. This series seeks to remedy
  that de