Contents: Series preface; Introduction; Part I Consciousness and Ideology in Socio-Legal Studies: The ideology of law: advances and problems in recent applications of the concept of ideology to the analysis of law, Alan Hunt (1985). Part II Conceptual Practices of Ideology and Consciousness: Everyday metaphors of power, Timothy Mitchell (1990); The ideological effects of actuarial practices, Jonathan Simon (1988); Suspended in space: Bedouins under the law of Israel, Ronen Shamir (1996). Part III Discursive Practices of Ideology and Consciousness: The dialogics of legal meaning: spectacular trials, The unwritten law, and narratives of criminal responsibility, Martha Merrill Umphrey (1999); Kissing hands and knees: hegemony and hierarchy in Shari'a discourse, Brinkley Messink (1988); Legal discourse and political intolerance: the ideology of clear and present danger, Mark Kessler (1993); Practice and paradox: deconstructing neutrality in mediation, Sara Cobb and Janet Rifkin (1991); The discourses of mediation and the power of naming, Sally Engel Merry (1990). Part IV Legal Consciousness, Resistance and the Everyday: Situating legal consciousness: experiences and attitudes of ordinary citizens about law and street harassment, Laura Beth Nielsen (2000); Remote justice: tuning in to small claims, race, and the reinvigoration of civic judgement, Valerie Karno (2003);.The law is all over': power resistance and the legal consciousness of the welfare poor, Austin Sarat (1990); Narratives of the death sentence: toward a theory of legal narrativity, Benjamin Fleury-Steiner (2002); Narrating social structure: stories of resistance to legal authority, Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey (2003); Blue jeans, rape, and the 'de-constitutive' power of law, Kitty Calavita (2001); Name Index.