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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…
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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…
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Austin Sarat
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…
This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics and Society contains two sections, focusing on the interaction between law and religion, together with the ways in which the law simultaneously…
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 special issue is part one of a two-part edited collection on interrupting the legal person, and what this means. The chapters in this volume interrogate the role of the…
This special issue is part two of a two-part edited collection on interrupting the legal person, and what this means. Should we think of the legal person as a technical…
Interpreting The Americans through a socially charged lens, this special issue offers a compelling insight into the legal and cultural undertones of family dynamics, as well as those at the…
This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics and Society examines a broad range of European case studies to consider the crucial role played by intermediaries, such as companies and…
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…
This volume brings together an interdisciplinary collection of scholars to critically examine issues around hatred and the law. With chapters on different elements of the nexus between hatred and law…
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles within the broad parameters of interdisciplinary legal scholarship. In this latest edition of this highly…
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles in interdisciplinary legal scholarship. This volume features a special section with papers dedicated to law…
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles in interdisciplinary legal scholarship. This volume features a special section with papers dedicated to life…
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…
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…
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 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…
Everyday Practices and Trouble Cases asks how law helps to constitute the worlds in which we live every day, and how law responds to disruptions and disputes that arise in…
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Presenting a diverse array of articles by an interdisciplinary group of scholars, this work covers social science disciplines and law. Some articles in this issue examine the interactions of law…
Contains articles from political science, sociology, and law, which examine the legal treatment of ‘suspect’ populations, the work of legal actors, and the works of various legal devices.
This volume of Studies in Law, Politics and Society brings together an international and interdisciplinary array of scholars to explore issues on the cutting edge of socio-legal research.
This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society examines how law understands the past. Topics covered include the use of legal language to dehumanize slaves in the eighteenth…
This special issue investigates the meaning of justice and dignity and how they have changed over time. What do we mean by human dignity? How do we understand and interpret…
This volume brings together an international and interdisciplinary array of scholars to explore issues around citizenship and law. With chapters on different elements of the relationship between law and citizenship…
An ideal approach to legal education, in Austin Sarat’s view, would open up law and legal knowledge by making them the proper objects of inquiry in the liberal arts.
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…
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…
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…
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 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 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…
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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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…
