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This volume gathers a collection of the most seminal essays written by leading experts in the fields of law, and cultural studies, which address the cultural dimension of trials
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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…
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The proliferation of images of law, legal processes, and officials on television and in film is a phenomenon of enormous significance. Mass-mediated images are as powerful, pervasive, and important as…
This collection examines limits of law, a topic that has been of broad interest since the events of 9/11 and the responses of U.S. law and policy to those events…
Law and the Stranger explores the ways law identifies and responds to strangers within and across national borders.
Law without Nations offers sharp analyses of the fraught relationship between the nation and the state and of the legal forms and practices that they require, constitute, and violently contest.
Bringing together the work of scholars in anthropology, law, literary studies, philosophy, and political theory, this book includes essays that show how state and private bureaucracies play crucial roles in…
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Brings together a distinguished group of scholars to explore the many and complex ways that law both regulates and gives meaning to our experience of loss. The essays in this…
Explores the dynamics of the law and illiberal quests for power, examining the anti-liberalism of neoliberalism; the weaponization of ‘free speech’; the role of the administrative state in crises of…
Martha Merrill Umphrey
The essays assembled in How Law Knows provide a sample of the diversity, responsiveness, and influence that law’s knowledge practices have on legal outcomes and the world beyond law.
Law and the Sacred explores questions about the foundational role of the sacred in the constitution of law, both historically and theoretically.
Law and Catastrophe sketches contours of a relatively fresh-yet crucial-terrain of inquiry. It begins the work of developing a jurisprudence of catastrophe.
This book considers the problem of law’s physical control of persons and it illuminates competing visions of the law: as both a tool of regulation and as an instrument of…
This book reminds us that examining the right to privacy and the public/private distinction is an important way of mapping the forms and limits of power that can legitimately be…
This volume explores the ways law both traffics in and regulates secrecy.
Law and War explores the cultural, historical, spatial, and theoretical dimensions of the relationship between law and war-a connection that has long vexed the jurisprudential imagination. Historically the term war…
Law and the Utopian Imagination seeks to explore and resuscitate the notion of utopianism within current legal discourse. The idea of utopia has fascinated the imaginations of important thinkers for…
Shows how law differentiates different kinds of places and invests those distinctions with meaning.
Examines how the lives of individuals, social groups, and nations are fashioned by their engagement with the law.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
