Front Cover -- Studies in Law, Politics, and Society -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Editorial Board -- Rights Discourse and the Mobilization of Bias: Exploring the Institutional Dynamics of the Same-Sex Marriage Debates in America -- Data and Methods -- Proposition 8 -- Perry v. Schwarzenegger (N.D. Cal, 2010) -- LD 1020 -- Question 1 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Cases Cited -- Unearthing a Network of Resistance: Law and the Anti-Strip Mining Movement in Central Appalachia -- Law and Social Movements -- Social Movements and Network Analysis -- The Case: The Anti-Strip Mining Movement in Central Appalachia -- SMCRA, Big Greens and the Clean Air Act Amendments -- Data -- Methods -- Anti-Strip Mining Network Evolution -- Network Measures -- The Legal Binds that Tie -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Appendix -- Racist Localisms and the Enduring Cultural Life of America's Death Penalty: Lessons from Maricopa County, Arizona -- Introduction -- The Death Penalty as a Local Phenomenon -- Racist Localisms and the Death Penalty -- South Phoenix's "Geography of Despair" and White Terror -- Racist Localisms in Maricopa County Today -- Sheriff Arpaio's War on "Illegals" -- Arizona's Recent Death Penalty Activity -- The Enduring Cultural Life of the Killing State -- Conclusion: Directions for Future Research -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Toward Justice: Neuroscience and Affirmative Defenses at the ICC -- Introduction -- The Challenge of Affirmative Defenses -- The Development of the Jurisprudence of the ICC -- What's at Stake: Protecting the World and Protecting the Accused -- Twenty-First Century Defenses and Dilemmas -- A Case Study in Psychological Defenses: The Landzo Trial -- The Court and the Future -- Notes -- References -- Cases Cited.

While in Rome, Do as Romans Do? Persistence of Legal Culture: The Case of Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union to Israel -- Introduction -- The Legal Culture -- Legal Culture - Definition -- Measuring Legal Culture -- Cultural Definition of the Rule of Law -- Individual Liberty -- Neutrality of Law -- Rights Consciousness and Modes of Dispute Resolution -- Previous Research of the Israeli Legal Culture and the Need for the Current Study -- Methodology -- Results and Discussion - The Two Legal Cultures -- Attitudes Toward the Rule of Law -- Israeli Jews -- FSU Immigrants -- Value Attached to Individual Liberty -- Israeli Jews -- FSU Immigrants -- Perceptions of the Neutrality if Law - Legal Alienation -- Israeli Jews -- FSU Immigrants -- Perception of Conflict and Dispute Resolution Preferences -- Israeli Jews -- FSU Immigrants -- Reporting Misbehavior: "I Am Not a Snitch" -- Perceptions of Turning to Courts as Dishonorable Conduct -- Attitudes Toward the Israeli Courts -- Israeli Jews -- FSU Immigrants -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- US Immigration Policy and the 21st Century Conundrum of "Child Saving": A Human Rights, Law and Social Science, Political, Economic, and Philosophical Inquiry -- Introduction -- International Human Rights Declarations: Duties to Children -- United Nations Charter -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- Convention on the Rights of the Child -- US Immigration Law: Historical and Statutory Contexts and/or Conditions -- The History of the Deportation Power -- The Special Immigrant Juvenile Status -- Immigrants and Public Benefits -- The Effects of Current US Immigration Policy on Children: A Social Science Review -- The Well-Being of Immigrant Children -- Welfare Policy and Education -- The Trauma of Raids and Deportation.

The "Child-Saving" of US Immigration Policy: A Political Economy Critique -- Child-Saving, the Media, and Immigration -- Child-Saving, Economic Insecurity, and Immigration -- Child-Saving, Politics, and Immigration -- US Immigration Policy, Child-Saving, and the Search for Justice: Implications from Psychological Jurisprudence -- Psychological Jurisprudence: Philosophical Perspective and Cultural Criticism -- PJ Theory and the "Madness" of US Immigration Policy -- PJ and the "Deconstruction" of US Immigration Policy -- PJ and the "Transformation" of US Immigration Policy -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References.