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32 produkter
Law on the Screen
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
786 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
838 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
798 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
786 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
786 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
838 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
830 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 …
Secrets of Law
Av Austin Sarat, Lawence Douglas m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
838 kr
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The Secrets of Law explores the ways law both traffics in and regulates secrecy. Taking a close look at the opacity built into legal and governance processes, it explores the ways law produces zones of secrecy, the relation between secrecy and justice, and how we understand the inscrutability of …
Secrets of Law
Av Austin Sarat, Lawence Douglas m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
956 kr
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The Secrets of Law explores the ways law both traffics in and regulates secrecy. Taking a close look at the opacity built into legal and governance processes, it explores the ways law produces zones of secrecy, the relation between secrecy and justice, and how we understand the inscrutability of …
Law and War
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
933 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 …
Law and the Utopian Imagination
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
942 kr
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Law and the Utopian Imagination seeks to explore and resuscitate the notion of utopianism within current legal discourse. The idea of utopia has fascinated the imaginations of important thinkers for ages. And yet—who writes seriously on the idea of utopia today? The mid-century critique appears to …
Law and the Utopian Imagination
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
1067 kr
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Law and the Utopian Imagination seeks to explore and resuscitate the notion of utopianism within current legal discourse. The idea of utopia has fascinated the imaginations of important thinkers for ages. And yet—who writes seriously on the idea of utopia today? The mid-century critique appears to …
Trials
Inbunden, 2017
1400 kr
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This volume gathers a collection of the most seminal essays written by leading experts in the fields of law, and cultural studies, which address the cultural dimension of trials. Taken together, these essays conceive of trials as sites of legal performance and as critical public spaces in which the …
Trial Films on Trial
Law, Justice, and Popular Culture
Av Austin Sarat, Jessica Silbey m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
303 kr
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A collection of wide-ranging critical essays that examine how the judicial system is represented on screen. Historically, the emergence of the trial film genre coincided with the development of motion pictures. In fact, one of the very first feature-length films, Falsely Accused!, released in 1908, …
Trial Films on Trial
Law, Justice, and Popular Culture
Av Martha Merrill Umphrey, Jessica Silbey m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
568 kr
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A collection of wide-ranging critical essays that examine how the judicial system is represented on screen Historically, the emergence of the trial film genre coincided with the development of motion pictures. In fact, one of the very first feature-length films, Falsely Accused! , released in 1908, …
Subjects of Responsibility
Framing Personhood in Modern Bureaucracies
Av Andrew Parker, Austin Sarat m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1123 kr
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How and why has the concept of responsibility come to pervade the fabric of American public and private life? How are ideas of responsibility instantiated in, and constituted by, the workings of social and political institutions? What place do liberal discourses of responsibility, based on the …
Law and Mourning
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
353 kr
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Law and Mourning brings together a distinguished group of scholars to explore the many and complex ways that law both regulates and gives meaning to our experience of loss. The essays in this volume illuminate how law helps us to absorb and contend with loss and its reverberations, channeling the …
Law and Performance
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
567 kr
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Drawing on the rich field of performance studies, this volume, the most recent contribution to the distinguished Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, offers fresh insights and a provocative mix of multidisciplinary topics and methodologies to explore the theatricality and …
Criminals and Enemies
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
327 kr
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Key binaries like public/private and speech/conduct are mainstays of the liberal legal system. However, the pairing of criminal/enemy has received little scholarly attention by comparison. Bringing together a group of distinguished and disciplinarily diverse scholars, Criminals and Enemies, the …
Guns in Law
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
411 kr
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Weapons have been a source of political and legal debate for centuries. Aristotle considered the possession of arms a fundamental source of political power and wrote that tyrants ""mistrust the people and deprive them of their arms."" Today ownership of weapons - whether handguns or military-grade …
Law and Illiberalism
Av Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
327 kr
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Does the law shield citizens from authoritarian regimes? Are the core beliefs of classical liberalism—namely the rights of all individuals and constraints on state power—still protected by law? Liberalism and its expansion of rights could not exist without the legal system, and unsurprisingly, many …
Reimagining to Kill a Mockingbird
Family, Community, and the Possibility of Equal Justice Under Law
Av Austin Sarat, Martha Merrill Umphrey
Häftad, 2013
409 kr
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Fifty years after the release of the film version of Harper Lee s acclaimed novel To Kill a Mockingbird, this collection of original essays takes a fresh look at a classic text in legal scholarship. The contributors revisit and examine Atticus, Scout, and Jem Finch, their community, and the events …
