This book honors the diverse and path-breaking work of Michael Adler, a pioneer of socio-legal scholarship in the UK. The book brings together an international group of scholarsestablished and emerging researchers from across the globeto develop key ideas generated by Adler's scholarship. Building on his rich portfolio of creative work at the interface of law and social science, the book explores themes that continue to resonate in contemporary debates about how best to understand the relationship between justice, fairness, and the modern administrative state. Specifically, the book re-examines core issues which Adler, as a key figure of the first generation of UK socio-legal scholars, explored, including: the relationship between official discretion and the rule of law; the justice of internal administrative processes; the importance of a 'bottom up' perspective on justice; power and accountability in the prison sector; access to justice for social welfare claimants; and the promise of viewing law through the lens of social science.

Examines Michael Adler's fify-year teaching career and his critical tools needed to solve pressing social problems Includes chapters from leading figures in socio-legal studies Offers a history of ideas within socio-legal studies with contemporary relevance

Autorentext

Sharon Cowan is Professor of Feminist and Queer Legal Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Simon Halliday is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Strathclyde, UK.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction ( Simon Halliday and Sharon Cowan ).- chapter 2. The man, his politics and intellectual origins: a short biography of Mike Adler ( Linda Mulcahy ).-chapter 3. Just AI: using socio-legal studies of fairness to inform ethical AI in government ( Paul Henman ).- chapter 4. Discretion and power ( Dave Cowan and Sally Wheeler ).- chapter 5. Examining prison discourse: extending 'discourse, power and justice' to front-line prison officers ( Shelley Eder ).- chapter 6. Thought styles on administrative justice systems ( TT Arvind, Simon Halliday and Lindsay Stirton ).- chapter 7. The political vulnerability of the american administrative state (Robert A. Kagan).- chapter 8. Rights and obligations in social security ( Gráinne Mckeever ).- chapter 9. Law, begging and pragmatic decency ( Sara Stendahl ).- chapter 10. Administrative justice and austerity: the case of disputes about adult social care ( Jackie Gulland ).- Afterword ( Jonathan Simon ).