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341 produkter
The Lives of Guns
Av Jonathan Obert, Andrew Poe m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
466 kr
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Guns have never before been as important in American culture as they are at this moment. Most contemporary conversations on guns focus on either the gun as a tool used in mass killings or a right to be fiercely defended, with most debates deadlocking on the ultimate role of humans in causing gun …
Lives of Guns
Av Austin Sarat, Andrew Poe m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
404 kr
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Guns have never been as prevalent in American culture as they are at this moment. Most contemporary conversations on guns either highlight the gun as just a tool used in mass killings or a right to be fiercely defended; eventually, whatever progress these debates foster in the public conversation …
Lives of Guns
Av Austin Sarat, Andrew Poe m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
404 kr
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Guns have never been as prevalent in American culture as they are at this moment. Most contemporary conversations on guns either highlight the gun as just a tool used in mass killings or a right to be fiercely defended; eventually, whatever progress these debates foster in the public conversation …
Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients
Power and Meaning in the Legal Process
Av Austin Sarat, William L. F. Felstiner
Inbunden, 1996
1953 kr
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Based on in-person observations of lawyer-client interactions in divorce, this new work provides a unique perspective on the power dynamics of their relationship.
Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients
Power and Meaning in the Legal Process
Av Austin Sarat, William L. F. Felstiner
Häftad, 1998
1075 kr
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Based on over 100 lawyer-client conferences this book charts the complicated and shifting relationships between lawyers and clients as they work out the strategy and tactics of divorce. As observers, Felstiner and Sarat were present when lawyers and clients confronted the full range of issues that …
Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era
Av Stuart Scheingold, Austin Sarat
Häftad, 2001
781 kr
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Sarat and Scheingold's book, Cause Lawyering, the first volume of its kind, coined the term for law as practiced by the politically motivated and those devoted to moral activism. The new collection examines cause lawyering in the global context, exploring the ways in which it is influencing and …
Killing State
Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture
Av Austin Sarat
E-bok, 2001
293 kr
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Over 7,000 people have been legally executed in the United States this century, and over 3,000 men and women now sit on death rows across the country awaiting the same fate. Since the Supreme Court temporarily halted capital punishment in 1972, the death penalty has returned with a vengeance. Today …
Cause Lawyering
Political Commitments and Professional Responsibilities
Av Stuart Scheingold, Austin Sarat
E-bok, 1998
512 kr
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Why do some lawyers devote themselves to a given social movement or political cause? How are such deeds of individual commitment and personal belief justly executed, given the ideals of disinterested professional service to which lawyers are (in theory, at least) supposed to adhere? What can we …
Race, Law, and Culture
Reflections on Brown v. Board of Education
Av Austin Sarat
E-bok, 1997
500 kr
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When it comes to race and racial issues these are strange times for all Americans. More than forty years after Brown v. Board of Education put an end to segregation of the races by law, current debates about affirmative action, multiculturalism, and racial hate speech reveal persistent uncertainty …
Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients
Power and Meaning in the Legal Process
Av William L. F. Felstiner, Austin Sarat
E-bok, 1995
451 kr
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Each year more than 2 million Americans divorced, and most of them use a lawyer. In closed-door conversations between lawyers and their clients strategy is planned, tactics are devised, and the emotional climate of the divorce is established. Do lawyers contribute to the pain and emotional …
Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era
Av Stuart Scheingold, Austin Sarat
E-bok, 2001
360 kr
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This volume brings together contextually sensitive, cross-cultural, and comparative research that analyzes the ways in which cause lawyering is influencing, and being influenced by, the disaggregation of state power associated with democratization and globalization.
Blackwell Companion to Law and Society
Av Austin Sarat
E-bok, 2008
2728 kr
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The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society is an authoritative study of the relationship between law and social interaction. Thirty-two original essays by an international group of expert scholars examine a wide range of critical questions. Authors represent various theoretical, methodological, and …
Lives in the Law
Av Martha Umphrey, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
E-bok, 2009
624 kr
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The essays look at the consequences that legal practice has on the lives of its practitioners as well as on the individual legal subject and on the shape of shared identities. These essays challenge liberal and communitarian notions of what it means to live the law. In the first of the essays, …
Place of Law
Av Martha Umphrey, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
E-bok, 2009
696 kr
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It has long been standard practice in legal studies to identify the place of law within the social order. And yet, as The Place of Law suggests, the meaning of the concept of "the place of law" is not self-evident. This book helps us see how the law defines territory and attempts to keep things in …
Law's Madness
Av Martha Umphrey, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
E-bok, 2009
681 kr
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Law and madness? Madness, it seems, exists outside the law and, in principle, society struggles to keep these slippery terms separate. From this perspective, madness appears to be law''s foil, the chaos that escapes law''s control and simultaneously justifies its existence. Law''s Madness explores …
Pain, Death, and the Law
Av Austin Sarat
E-bok, 2009
724 kr
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This collection of essays examines the relationship between pain, death, and the law and addresses the question of how the law constructs pain and death as jurisprudential facts. The empirical focus of these essays enables the reader to delve into both the history and the theoretical complexities …
Law in Everyday Life
Av Thomas R. Kearns, Austin Sarat
E-bok, 2009
697 kr
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"Sarat and Kearns . . . have edited a truly marvelous work on the impact of the law on daily life and vice versa. . . . the essays are all exemplary, thought- provoking works worthy of a long, contemplative read by scholars, lawyers, and judges alike." -- Choice "The subject of law in everyday life …
Legal Rights
Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
Av Thomas R. Kearns, Austin Sarat
E-bok, 2009
700 kr
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The idea of legal rights today enjoys virtually universal appeal, yet all too often the meaning and significance of rights are poorly understood. The purpose of this volume is to clarify the subject of legal rights by drawing on both historical and philosophical legal scholarship to bridge the gap …
Human Rights
Concepts, Contests, Contingencies
Av Thomas R. Kearns, Austin Sarat
E-bok, 2009
470 kr
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Today the language of human rights, if not human rights themselves, is nearly universal. Human Rights brings together essays that attend to both the allure and criticism of human rights. They examine contestation and contingency in today''s human rights politics and help us rethink some of the …
Law in the Domains of Culture
Av Thomas R. Kearns, Austin Sarat
E-bok, 2009
522 kr
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The concept of culture is troublingly vague and, at the same time, hotly contested, and law''s relations to culture are as complex, varied and disputed as the concept of culture itself. The concept of the traditional, unified, reified, civilizing idea of culture has come under attack. The growth of …
History, Memory, and the Law
Av Thomas R. Kearns, Austin Sarat
E-bok, 2009
762 kr
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The essays in this book examine law as an active participant in the process through which history is written and memory is constructed. Instead of seeing law as a "victim" of history, the writers treat law as an author of history, not just in the instrumental sense in which law can be said to make …
Rhetoric of Law
Av Thomas R. Kearns, Austin Sarat
E-bok, 2009
980 kr
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Law is a profession of words. Simultaneously celebratory of great prose and dogmatically insistent on precise usage, law is a stage for verbal virtuosity, linguistic mastery, and persuasive argument. Yet the linguistic display is not without substance: the words of law take on a seriousness …
Justice and Injustice in Law and Legal Theory
Av Thomas R. Kearns, Austin Sarat
E-bok, 2009
606 kr
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Running through the history of jurisprudence and legal theory is a recurring concern about the connections between law and justice and about the ways law is implicated in injustice. In earlier times law and justice were viewed as virtually synonymous. Experience, however, has taught us that, in …
Fate of Law
Av Thomas R. Kearns, Austin Sarat
E-bok, 2009
557 kr
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For law and legal theory the end of the twentieth century is a time of contradiction; while the newly emerging politics of Eastern Europe seek to establish a new rule of law, voices in this country proclaim the "death of law." For the former, law provides hope for stability and fairness. For the …
Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics, and the Law
Av Thomas R. Kearns, Austin Sarat
E-bok, 2009
592 kr
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We are witnessing in the last decade of the twentieth century more frequent demands by racial and ethnic groups for recognition of their distinctive histories and traditions as well as opportunities to develop and maintain the institutional infrastructure necessary to preserve them. Where it once …
Identities, Politics, and Rights
Av Thomas R. Kearns, Austin Sarat
E-bok, 2010
766 kr
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The subject of rights occupies a central place in liberal political thought. This tradition posits that rights are entitlements of individuals by virtue of their personhood and that rights stand apart from politics, that rights in fact hold at bay intrusions of state policy. The essays in …
Law's Violence
Av Thomas R. Kearns, Austin Sarat
E-bok, 2009
557 kr
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"In bringing together accomplished and thoughtful scholars of different disciplines, with a command of literature ranging from the legal to the literary, and in relating the works to the central arguments of the late Professor Robert Cover, Sarat and Kearns have created a first-rate up-to-date …
Dissent in Dangerous Times
Av Austin Sarat
E-bok, 2010
443 kr
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Dissent in Dangerous Times presents essays by six distinguished scholars, who provide their own unique views on the interplay of loyalty, patriotism, and dissent. While dissent has played a central role in our national history and in the American cultural imagination, it is usually dangerous to …
Place of Law
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
353 kr
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It has long been standard practice in legal studies to identify the place of law within the social order. And yet, as The Place of Law suggests, the meaning of the concept of "the place of law" is not self-evident.This book helps us see how the law defines territory and attempts to keep things in …
Law's Madness
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
353 kr
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Law and madness? Madness, it seems, exists outside the law and, in principle, society struggles to keep these slippery terms separate. From this perspective, madness appears to be law's foil, the chaos that escapes law's control and simultaneously justifies its existence. Law's Madness explores the …
