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52 produkter
Criminal State
War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice
Inbunden, 2026
317 kr
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A sweeping history of the struggle to hold states to account for their gravest crimesThe Criminal State offers a gripping account of how law has confronted the most radical forms of state violence. Beautifully written, broad in scope, and bracingly original, it weaves history with political thought …
Oxford Handbook of Transitional Justice
Av Jens Meierhenrich, Alexander Laban Hinton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
3005 kr
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The Oxford Handbook of Transitional Justice is an authoritative guide to the rapidly growing domain of transitional justice-the practices and processes of reckoning pursued in the aftermath of historic injustice. Since the neologism's coining in the late 1990s, “transitional justice” has become one …
Memory of Judgment
Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust
Häftad, 2010
563 kr
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This powerful book offers the first detailed examination of the law’s response to the crimes of the Holocaust. In vivid prose it offers a fascinating study of five exemplary proceedings—the Nuremberg trial of the major Nazi war criminals, the Israeli trials of Adolf Eichmann and John Demjanjuk, the …
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 …
Place of Law
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
352 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
352 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 …
Right Wrong Man
John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial
Inbunden, 2016
379 kr
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In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk's legal odyssey began in 1975, when American investigators received evidence …
Right Wrong Man
John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial
Häftad, 2018
258 kr
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In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk's legal odyssey began in 1975, when American investigators received evidence …
Criminal State
War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice
E-bok, 2026
386 kr
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A sweeping history of the struggle to hold states to account for their gravest crimesThe Criminal State offers a gripping account of how law has confronted the most radical forms of state violence. Beautifully written, broad in scope, and bracingly original, it weaves history with political thought …
Criminal State
War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice
E-bok, 2026
394 kr
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A sweeping history of the struggle to hold states to account for their gravest crimesThe Criminal State offers a gripping account of how law has confronted the most radical forms of state violence. Beautifully written, broad in scope, and bracingly original, it weaves history with political thought …
Sense and Nonsensibility
Lampoons of Learning and Literature
Av Lawrence Douglas, Alexander George
Häftad, 2004
174 kr
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At last, the thinking person's answer to the life of the mind in today's increasingly mindless, anti-intellectual age. SENSE AND NONSENSIBILITY pokes fun at everyone from self-important scholars to pompous professors; from anally-retentive authors to plagiarising poets; from snake-oil therapists to …
Law on the Screen
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
784 kr
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The proliferation of images of law, legal processes, and officials on television and in film is a phenomenon of enormous significance. Mass-mediated images are as powerful, pervasive, and important as are other early twenty-first-century social forces—e.g. globalization, neo-colonialism, and human …
Limits of Law
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
836 kr
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This collection brings together well-established scholars to examine the limits of law, a topic that has been of broad interest since the events of 9/11 and the responses of U.S. law and policy to those events. The limiting conditions explored in this volume include marking law's relationship to …
How Law Knows
Av Martha Merrill Umphrey, Austin Sarat m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
538 kr
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When citizens think about law's ways of knowing and about how legal officials gather information, assess factual claims, and judge people and situations, they are often confused by the seemingly arcane and constrained quality of the information-gathering, fact-evaluating procedures that legal …
Law and the Sacred
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
796 kr
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The specter of the sacred always haunts the law, even in the most resolute of contemporary secular democracies. Indeed, the more one considers the question of the relation between law and the sacred, the more it appears that endless debate over the proper relationship of government to religion is …
Law and Catastrophe
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
420 kr
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The study of catastrophe is a growth industry. Today, cosmologists scan the heavens for asteroids of the kind that smashed into earth some ninety million years ago, leading to the swift extinction of the dinosaurs. Climatologists create elaborate models of the chaotic weather and vast flooding that …
Law on the Screen
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
E-bok, 2005
892 kr
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The proliferation of images of law, legal processes, and officials on television and in film is a phenomenon of enormous significance. Mass-mediated images are as powerful, pervasive, and important as are other early twenty-first-century social forces—e.g. globalization, neo-colonialism, and human …
Law and the Stranger
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
784 kr
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Law calls communities into being and constitutes the "we" it governs. This act of defining produces an outside as well as an inside, a border whose crossing is guarded, maintaining the identity, coherence, and integrity of the space and people within. Those wishing to enter must negotiate a complex …
Law Without Nations
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
784 kr
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The possibility of law in the absence of a nation would seem to strip law from its source of meaning and value. At the same time, law divorced from nations would clear the ground for a cosmopolitan vision in which the prejudices or idiosyncrasies of distinctive national traditions would give way to …
Law As Punishment / Law As Regulation
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
836 kr
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Law depends on various modes of classification. How an act or a person is classified may be crucial in determining the rights obtained, the procedures employed, and what understandings get attached to the act or person. Critiques of law often reveal how arbitrary its classificatory acts are, but no …
Law and the Stranger
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
E-bok, 2010
892 kr
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Law calls communities into being and constitutes the "we" it governs. This act of defining produces an outside as well as an inside, a border whose crossing is guarded, maintaining the identity, coherence, and integrity of the space and people within. Those wishing to enter must negotiate a complex …
Imagining New Legalities
Privacy and Its Possibilities in the 21st Century
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
828 kr
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Imagining New Legalities reminds us that examining the right to privacy and the public/private distinction is an important way of mapping the forms and limits of power that can legitimately be exercised by collective bodies over individuals and by governments over their citizens. This book does not …
Law Without Nations
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
E-bok, 2010
892 kr
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The possibility of law in the absence of a nation would seem to strip law from its source of meaning and value. At the same time, law divorced from nations would clear the ground for a cosmopolitan vision in which the prejudices or idiosyncrasies of distinctive national traditions would give way to …
Imagining New Legalities
Privacy and Its Possibilities in the 21st Century
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
956 kr
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Imagining New Legalities reminds us that examining the right to privacy and the public/private distinction is an important way of mapping the forms and limits of power that can legitimately be exercised by collective bodies over individuals and by governments over their citizens. This book does not …
Law As Punishment / Law As Regulation
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
956 kr
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Law depends on various modes of classification. How an act or a person is classified may be crucial in determining the rights obtained, the procedures employed, and what understandings get attached to the act or person. Critiques of law often reveal how arbitrary its classificatory acts are, but no …
Law and War
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
931 kr
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Law and War explores the cultural, historical, spatial, and theoretical dimensions of the relationship between law and war—a connection that has long vexed the jurisprudential imagination. Historically the term "war crime" struck some as redundant and others as oxymoronic: redundant because war …
Law and War
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
1067 kr
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Law and War explores the cultural, historical, spatial, and theoretical dimensions of the relationship between law and war—a connection that has long vexed the jurisprudential imagination. Historically the term "war crime" struck some as redundant and others as oxymoronic: redundant because war …
