Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought – serie
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46 produkter
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 …
Justice and Injustice in Law and Legal Theory
Av Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns
Häftad, 1998
353 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 Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns
Häftad, 1993
367 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 …
Law's Violence
Av Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns
Häftad, 1995
353 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 …
Law in Everyday Life
Av Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns
Häftad, 1995
464 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 …
Rhetoric of Law
Av Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns
Häftad, 1996
519 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 …
Legal Rights
Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
Av Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns
Häftad, 1997
422 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 …
Identities, Politics, and Rights
Av Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns
Häftad, 1997
548 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 in the Domains of Culture
Av Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns
Häftad, 2000
353 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 …
Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics, and the Law
Av Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns
Häftad, 2001
394 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 …
History, Memory, and the Law
Av Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns
Häftad, 2002
457 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 …
Human Rights
Concepts, Contests, Contingencies
Av Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns
Häftad, 2002
297 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 basic …
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 …
