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Drawing together an array of distinguished scholars from political science, criminology, sociology, and law, this volume examines the death penalty in the US.
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Once hailed as a promising new way to think about law and as opening a vital conversation about literature the question is whether the law and literature enterprise has lived…
Aims to bring together the work of leading scholars of Constitutionalism, Constitutional law, and politics in the United States to take stock of the field to chart its progress, and…
Offers fresh perspectives on sentencing and punishment, lawyering for the public good, and the meaning of legal doctrine. This book contains articles that exemplify the work being done in interdisciplinary…
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Features a symposium on law and film as well as two articles of general interest. This book addresses central questions in the operation of law and legal systems.
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Contains a Special Issue on crime and criminal justice. This title brings together the work of scholars whose work usefully illuminates central questions in about how we define and process…
Rights and rights talk have a long and storied history and have occupied a crucial place in the ideology of liberal legalism. With the development of Critical Legal Studies in…
Trials are well known as paradigmatic legal events. Some attract wide attention; others mostly escape notice. This title brings together the work of some of the leading scholars to think…
Brings together research on law’s cultural life and on institutions and actors who translate interests, preferences, and values into legal policy. This work offers perspectives from an interdisciplinary and international…
This volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society contains a sampling of work from some of the most promising junior scholars in the next generation of the law and…
Large law firms have become a dominant feature of the legal landscape in the United States and elsewhere. This volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society examines the situation…
Contains articles that consider the ways in which history has shaped law and how we make sense of past events. This volume also includes articles that explore pressing legal issues…
Social movements provide the engine of legal change and law itself spurs social movement activity. This issue includes articles on social movements in several different nations, including France, South Africa…
How the law constructs pain and death as jurisprudential facts
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The mere act of dissent in an American society shaking with fears of terrorism can elicit charges of being un-American, if not worse. Each of the five essays presented by…
This volume focusses on Law and the Imagining of Difference with each chapter examining how law responds to the claims of difference, how and when it recognizes difference and accommodates…
Gruesome Spectacles tells the sobering history of botched, mismanaged, and painful executions in the U.S. from 1890 to the present. Since the book’s initial publication in 2014, the cruel and…
With a history marked by incompetence, political maneuvering, and secrecy, America’s most humane execution method is anything but.
This special issue is the second of a two-part edited collection on the privatisation of migration. The central thrust of the special issue is a critical analysis of modern day…
This book examines the meaning and significance of finality in capital cases, deploying various theories and perspectives to open up the meaning and significance of the death penalty’s finality to…
This book will appeal to scholars of law, rhetoric and legal history, with its detailed analysis from a number of respected contributors. It explores new approaches to rhetoric in law…
How human rights are made available and protected in individual countries is an area of much study and debate. This engaging volume focuses on the significance of human rights in…
This book examines law’s complex relationship to sovereign power and emergency conditions. It puts today’s responses to emergency in historical and institutional context, reminding readers of the continuities and discontinuities…
This is an edited volume of essays that seeks to situate the ideas of speech and silence - particularly their circumstances of use and contexts - in American law, asking…
This book explores the status of dissent in the work and lives of judges, lawyers, and citizens, and in our institutions and culture. It examines the forms of dissent that…
This book questions what practices constitute a ‘religious activity’ such that it cannot be supported or funded by government. It examines the history of accommodating laws when there is tension…
Civility, Legality, and Justice in America charts the uses of civility in American legal and political discourse. This book brings the work of several distinguished scholars together to critically assess…
Can the law keep up with emerging threats to privacy and provide effective protection against new forms of surveillance? This book considers several different understandings of privacy and provides examples…
This is the first book to investigate lies and deception in the American legal system. Analyzing examples from undercover police deception to lying under oath and from political lying to…
Civil Rights in American Law, History, and Politics charts the ambiguous and contested meanings of civil rights in law and culture and confronts important questions about race in contemporary America…
Presents a study of the relationship between law and social interaction. This title shows the world-wide significance of North American law and society scholarship. It addresses classical areas and fresh…
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Seeks to map the inexorable but unstable relationship of law to violence. Building on the seminal work of Robert Cover and striving to situate his insights within political, social, economic…
Arguing that the capital punishment must be stopped, this book exposes us to the realities of state killing and examines its foundations in ideas about revenge and retribution. It takes…
Uses the lens of executive clemency in capital cases to discuss the fraught condition of mercy in American political life. This book examines the history of capital clemency in the…
There remains uncertainty about the meaning of race in American culture and the role of law on racial equality. This book takes the continuing controversy about race as an invitation…
25 years ago, the Supreme Court temporarily halted capital punishment. This collection brings together eleven writers to discuss the meaning of execution in American law and culture. It provides historical…
