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Emblems of Pluralism
Cultural Differences and the State
Häftad, 2002
401 kr
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From outlawing polygamy and mandating public education to protecting the rights of minorities, the framing of group life by the state has been a subject of considerable interest and controversy throughout the history of the United States. The subject continues to be important in many countries. …
License to Harass
Law, Hierarchy, and Offensive Public Speech
Häftad, 2006
401 kr
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Offensive street speech--racist and sexist remarks that can make its targets feel both psychologically and physically threatened--is surprisingly common in our society. Many argue that this speech is so detestable that it should be banned under law. But is this an area covered by the First …
Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment
Comparative Perspectives
Av Austin Sarat, Christian Boulanger
Häftad, 2005
343 kr
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How does the way we think and feel about the world around us affect the existence and administration of the death penalty? What role does capital punishment play in defining our political and cultural identity?After centuries during which capital punishment was a normal and self-evident part of …
All Judges Are Political—Except When They Are not
Acceptable Hypocrisies and the Rule of Law
Av Keith Bybee
Häftad, 2010
225 kr
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We live in an age where one person's judicial "activist" legislating from the bench is another's impartial arbiter fairly interpreting the law. After the Supreme Court ended the 2000 Presidential election with its decision in Bush v. Gore, many critics claimed that the justices had simply voted …
Lex Populi
The Jurisprudence of Popular Culture
Inbunden, 2007
1150 kr
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This is a book about jurisprudence—or legal philosophy. The legal philosophical texts under consideration are—to say the least—unorthodox. Tolkien, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter, Legally Blonde, and others are referenced as instances of what the author calls lex populi—"pop law". Here, …
Fault Lines
Tort Law As Cultural Practice
Av David M. Engel, Michael McCann
Inbunden, 2009
1358 kr
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Tort law, a fundamental building block of every legal system, features prominently in mass culture and political debates. As this pioneering anthology reveals, tort law is not simply a collection of legal rules and procedures, but a set of cultural responses to the broader problems of risk, injury, …
Fault Lines
Tort Law As Cultural Practice
Av David M. Engel, Michael McCann
Häftad, 2009
315 kr
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Tort law, a fundamental building block of every legal system, features prominently in mass culture and political debates. As this pioneering anthology reveals, tort law is not simply a collection of legal rules and procedures, but a set of cultural responses to the broader problems of risk, injury, …
Riding the Black Ram
Law, Literature, and Gender
Inbunden, 2010
853 kr
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Unruly women are not often represented in a good light. Whether historical, or fictional, disruptive women with their real or imagined excesses have long provided the material for literary and legal narratives. This probing new work analyzes a series of literary, legal, and historical texts to …
Affective Life of Law
Legal Modernism and the Literary Imagination
Inbunden, 2009
788 kr
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Unhampered by the practical limits lawyers and judges face, literature expresses the unspoken sentiments that underpin legal doctrine. Through readings of Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, and Hannah Arendt, as well as legal opinions and treatises, this book considers both law and literature as …
Law in Crisis
The Ecstatic Subject of Natural Disaster
Inbunden, 2009
786 kr
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Taking natural disaster as the political and legal norm is uncommon. Taking a person who has become unstable and irrational during a disaster as the starting point for legal analysis is equally uncommon. Nonetheless, in Law in Crisis Ruth Miller makes the unsettling case that the law demands an …
Tort, Custom, and Karma
Globalization and Legal Consciousness in Thailand
Av David Engel, Jaruwan S. Engel
Inbunden, 2010
1098 kr
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Diverse societies are now connected by globalization, but how do ordinary people feel about law as they cope day-to-day with a transformed world? Tort, Custom, and Karma examines how rapid societal changes, economic development, and integration into global markets have affected ordinary people's …
Tort, Custom, and Karma
Globalization and Legal Consciousness in Thailand
Av David Engel, Jaruwan S. Engel
Häftad, 2010
264 kr
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Diverse societies are now connected by globalization, but how do ordinary people feel about law as they cope day-to-day with a transformed world? Tort, Custom, and Karma examines how rapid societal changes, economic development, and integration into global markets have affected ordinary people's …
Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment
Comparative Perspectives
Av Austin Sarat, Christian Boulanger
E-bok, 2005
416 kr
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How does the way we think and feel about the world around us affect the existence and administration of the death penalty? What role does capital punishment play in defining our political and cultural identity?After centuries during which capital punishment was a normal and self-evident part of …
Fault Lines
Tort Law As Cultural Practice
Av David M. Engel, Michael McCann
E-bok, 2009
374 kr
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Tort law, a fundamental building block of every legal system, features prominently in mass culture and political debates. As this pioneering anthology reveals, tort law is not simply a collection of legal rules and procedures, but a set of cultural responses to the broader problems of risk, injury, …
Lex Populi
The Jurisprudence of Popular Culture
Häftad, 2009
277 kr
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This is a book about jurisprudence—or legal philosophy. The legal philosophical texts under consideration are—to say the least—unorthodox. Tolkien, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter, Legally Blonde, and others are referenced as instances of what the author calls lex populi—"pop law". Here, …
Law in Crisis
The Ecstatic Subject of Natural Disaster
E-bok, 2009
873 kr
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Taking natural disaster as the political and legal norm is uncommon. Taking a person who has become unstable and irrational during a disaster as the starting point for legal analysis is equally uncommon. Nonetheless, in Law in Crisis Ruth Miller makes the unsettling case that the law demands an …
Riding the Black Ram
Law, Literature, and Gender
E-bok, 2010
976 kr
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Unruly women are not often represented in a good light. Whether historical, or fictional, disruptive women with their real or imagined excesses have long provided the material for literary and legal narratives. This probing new work analyzes a series of literary, legal, and historical texts to …
Our Word Is Our Bond
How Legal Speech Acts
Inbunden, 2014
1139 kr
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Words can be misspoken, misheard, misunderstood, or misappropriated; they can be inappropriate, inaccurate, dangerous, or wrong. When speech goes wrong, law often steps in as itself a speech act or series of speech acts. Our Word Is Our Bond offers a nuanced approach to language and its interaction …
Our Word Is Our Bond
How Legal Speech Acts
Häftad, 2014
277 kr
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Words can be misspoken, misheard, misunderstood, or misappropriated; they can be inappropriate, inaccurate, dangerous, or wrong. When speech goes wrong, law often steps in as itself a speech act or series of speech acts. Our Word Is Our Bond offers a nuanced approach to language and its interaction …
After Secular Law
Av Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Robert A. Yelle m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
855 kr
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Many today place great hope in law as a vehicle for the transformation of society and accept that law is autonomous, universal, and above all, secular. Yet recent scholarship has called into question the simplistic narrative of a separation between law and religion and blurred the boundaries …
All Judges Are Political—Except When They Are not
Acceptable Hypocrisies and the Rule of Law
Av Keith Bybee
E-bok, 2010
271 kr
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We live in an age where one person's judicial "activist" legislating from the bench is another's impartial arbiter fairly interpreting the law. After the Supreme Court ended the 2000 Presidential election with its decision in Bush v. Gore, many critics claimed that the justices had simply voted …
After Secular Law
Av Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Robert A. Yelle m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
970 kr
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Many today place great hope in law as a vehicle for the transformation of society and accept that law is autonomous, universal, and above all, secular. Yet recent scholarship has called into question the simplistic narrative of a separation between law and religion and blurred the boundaries …
Zooland
The Institution of Captivity
Inbunden, 2012
1239 kr
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This book takes a unique stance on a controversial topic: zoos. Zoos have their ardent supporters and their vocal detractors. And while we all have opinions on what zoos do, few people consider how they do it. Irus Braverman draws on more than seventy interviews conducted with zoo managers and …
Zooland
The Institution of Captivity
Häftad, 2012
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301 kr
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This book takes a unique stance on a controversial topic: zoos. Zoos have their ardent supporters and their vocal detractors. And while we all have opinions on what zoos do, few people consider how they do it. Irus Braverman draws on more than seventy interviews conducted with zoo managers and …
Better Left Unsaid
Victorian Novels, Hays Code Films, and the Benefits of Censorship
Av Nora Gilbert
Inbunden, 2013
1424 kr
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Better Left Unsaid is in the unseemly position of defending censorship from the central allegations that are traditionally leveled against it. Taking two genres generally presumed to have been stymied by the censor's knife—the Victorian novel and classical Hollywood film—this book reveals the …
Zooland
The Institution of Captivity
E-bok, 2012
364 kr
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This book takes a unique stance on a controversial topic: zoos. Zoos have their ardent supporters and their vocal detractors. And while we all have opinions on what zoos do, few people consider how they do it. Irus Braverman draws on more than seventy interviews conducted with zoo managers and …
Better Left Unsaid
Victorian Novels, Hays Code Films, and the Benefits of Censorship
Av Nora Gilbert
E-bok, 2013
356 kr
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Better Left Unsaid is in the unseemly position of defending censorship from the central allegations that are traditionally leveled against it. Taking two genres generally presumed to have been stymied by the censor's knife - the Victorian novel and classical Hollywood film - this book reveals the …
Street Politics of Abortion
Speech, Violence, and America's Culture Wars
Inbunden, 2013
1139 kr
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The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade stands as a historic victory for abortion-rights activists. But rather than serving as the coda to what had been a comparatively low-profile social conflict, the decision mobilized a wave of anti-abortion protests and ignited a heated struggle that …
Street Politics of Abortion
Speech, Violence, and America's Culture Wars
Häftad, 2013
277 kr
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The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade stands as a historic victory for abortion-rights activists. But rather than serving as the coda to what had been a comparatively low-profile social conflict, the decision mobilized a wave of anti-abortion protests and ignited a heated struggle that …
Street Politics of Abortion
Speech, Violence, and America's Culture Wars
E-bok, 2013
328 kr
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The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade stands as a historic victory for abortion-rights activists. But rather than serving as the coda to what had been a comparatively low-profile social conflict, the decision mobilized a wave of anti-abortion protests and ignited a heated struggle that …
