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      Guns in Law

      Today ownership of weapons poses more acute legal problems than ever before. In this volume, contributors confront urgent questions, among them the usefulness of history as a guide in ongoing…

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      Law and Performance

      Drawing on the rich field of performance studies, this volume, the most recent contribution to the distinguished Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, offers fresh insights and a…

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      Law’s Infamy: Understanding the Canon of Bad Law

      An analysis of how problematic laws ought to be framed and considered

      From the murder of George Floyd to the systematic dismantling of voting rights, our laws and their implementation…

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      Criminals and Enemies

      Bringing together a group of distinguished and disciplinarily diverse scholars, Criminals and Enemies draws on political philosophy, legal analysis, and historical research to reveal just how central the criminal/enemy distinction…

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      Law and the Visible

      These interdisciplinary essays discuss the culpability of those who record violence, the history of racialized violence as it streams through police bodycams, the idea of digital images as objective or…

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      Law and the Humanities: An Introduction

      This book brings together a distinguished group of scholars, working in the United States and abroad, from law schools and from an array of disciplines in the humanities, to review…

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      Law and the Humanities: An Introduction

      This book brings together a distinguished group of scholars, working in the United States and abroad, from law schools and from an array of disciplines in the humanities, to review…

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      Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law: Moving Beyond Legal Realism

      Presents a field-defining collection of work at the intersection of law, cultural analysis and cultural studies. This book demonstrates the purchase of cultural studies frameworks for thinking about legal questions…

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      The Founding Fathers, Pop Culture, and Constitutional Law: Who’s Your Daddy?

      Susan Burgess,Professor Austin D. Sarat

      This volume explores the representation of law and legitimacy in various sites of popular culture. To this end, soap operas, romance novels, tabloid newspapers, reality television, and coming out narratives…

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      Narrative, Violence, and the Law: The Essays of Robert Cover

      Essential writings of the leading scholar of law and violence

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      Transitions: Legal Change, Legal Meanings

      Illustrates the various intersections, crises, and shifts that continually occur within the law, and how these moments of change interact with and comment on contemporary society.

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      Performances of Violence

      An interdisciplinary analysis of the cultural meanings of violence

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      The Time of Catastrophe: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Age of Catastrophe

      Christopher Dole,Robert Hayashi,Andrew Poe,Austin Sarat

      If catastrophes are, by definition, exceptional events of such magnitude that worlds and lives are dramatically overturned, the question of timing would pose a seemingly straightforward, if not redundant question…

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      Special Issue: Problematizing Prostitution: Critical Research and Scholarship

      The scholars who contribute to this issue utilize diverse research methods to examine the lived experiences of people engaged in prostitution and the people and institutions that process them.

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      Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients: Power and Meaning in the Legal Process

      Austin Sarat,William L.F. Felstiner

      Based on over 100 lawyer-client conferences at which the authors were observers, this book charts the complicated and shifting relationships between the two as they work out the strategy and…

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      Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era

      Stuart Scheingold (Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, University of Washington)

      This collection examines cause lawyering in the global context, exploring the ways in which it is influencing and being influenced by the disaggregation of state power associated with democratization, and…

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      Trial Films on Trial: Law, Justice, and Popular Culture

      The first book to focus exclusively on the significance of trial films for both film and legal studies. Chapters cover a variety of topics, such as how and why film…

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      Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients: Power and Meaning in the Legal Process

      Austin Sarat (Williams Nelson Cromell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science; Director of the Alexander Meiklejohn Institute for Legal Studies, Amherst College),William L. F. Felstiner (Professor, Law and Society, University of California, Santa Barbara)

      Please note new title and order of authors’ names.

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