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Austin Sarat (Amherst College, Massachusetts)
Explores the tension between law’s need for and dependence on merciful judgments and suspicions that regularly accompany them. Rather than focusing primarily on definitional questions or the longstanding debate about…
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This book offers the first study of what happens when the public gets to decide on the fate of capital punishment. It will be of interest to the general public…
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Bringing a timely synthesis to the field, The Handbook of Law and Society presents a comprehensive overview of key research findings, theoretical developments, and methodological controversies in the field of…
Forgiveness, Mercy, and Clemency examines the registers of individual psychology, religious belief, social practice, and political power that circulate in and around those who forgive, grant mercy, or pose clemency…
This volume seeks to reorient scholarship on cause lawyers, inviting scholars to think about cause lawyering from the perspective of those political activists with whom cause lawyers work and whom…
Takes an interdisciplinary approach to the legal challenges posed by the criminal wrongdoing of governments
The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make: Structure and Agency in Legal Practice adds to the growing body of research by examining the connections between lawyers and causes, the settings in which…
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…
Studies in Law, Politics and Society
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Presents an array of articles on the social sciences, humanities, and law.
Presents an of articles by an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars. Their work spans the social sciences, humanities, and law, and examines the law’s violence, law in literature and…
Includes articles that illuminate some of the work in interdisciplinary legal scholarship.
Presents an array of articles that examine the many ways citizens learn about law, law beyond the nation-state and the relationship of law and labour.
This volume presents scholarly work which spans the social sciences, humanities, and law and includes the examination of new perspectives on legal relationships and events and punishment as a literary…
This volume presents articles by an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars spanning the social sciences, humanities, and law. It examines new perspectives on political relationships, politics and legal reform…
This volume presents articles by interdisciplinary and international scholars spanning the social sciences, humanities, and law. It offers perspectives on political relationships, politics, legal reform, law and the family, race…
Presents articles by an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars spanning the social sciences, humanities, and law. This title offers fresh perspectives on political relationships, politics, legal reform, law and…
This volume presents a diverse array of articles by an interdisciplinary group of scholars. Their work spans the social sciences, humanities, and law, and examines law and culture, the complex…
Starting with an overview of the history and philosophy of punishment, this title includes articles that explore penal practices in the modern state and the deeper philosophical and social aspects…
Presents articles by an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars spanning the social sciences, humanities, and law. This title examines fresh perspectives on political relationships, politics and legal reform, and…
Presents an array of articles by an interdisciplinary group of scholars. Their work spans the social sciences, humanities, and law. These scholars examine law and culture, the complex intersections of…
At the center of our belief in law is the hope and expectation that law can differentiate the guilty from the innocent. The articles in this volume explore law’s guilt…
Presents a diverse array of articles by an interdisciplinary group of scholars. This work covers political science, policy studies, and law. Divided into two parts - conflict, violence, and legal…
How do we select those who will be subject to capital punishment? How do we identify the worst of the worst and decide who among them can and should be…
Stuart A. Scheingold,Austin Sarat
Lawyers in the US are frequently described as hired guns, willing to fight for any client or advance any interest. But there are others, those the authors call cause lawyers…
This book examines the cultural lives of cause lawyers by focusing on their representation in various popular media.
This book provides an analysis of the historical and political conditions that shaped death penalty practice from the end of World War II to the present. It assesses what the…
A cross-national study of lawyers who devote themselves to serving political causes. The essays collected here bring together the work of eighteen scholars.
Austin Sarat’s The Social Organization of Law: Introductory Readings begins with a simple premise-law seeks to work in the world, to order, change, and give meaning to society-and describes legal…
An exploration of law’s place in everyday life and the influence of everyday life on the law. Contributors include David Engel, Hendrik Hartog, Thomas R. Kearns, David Kennedy, Catharine MacKinnon…
Explores the postmodern challenges to efforts to ground rights outside of history and language
How law uses history and molds memory
Brings together essays that examine contestation and contingency in today’s human rights politics
Austin Sarat
These essays show how law is relevant in both an instrumental and a constitutive sense, as a tool to accomplish particular purposes and as an important force in shaping the…
Part of a series of interdisciplinary research on law, this title invites research on a range of law-related subjects, including law and inequality, feminist jurisprudence, racial oppression and law, and…
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…
An interdisciplinary critique of the relationship between words and the law
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…
Explores the relationship between culture and law
