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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784346903321

Titolo

Studies in law, politics, and society . Vol. 39 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Austin Sarat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : JAI Press, 2006

ISBN

1-280-63197-X

9786610631971

1-84950-422-9

0-08-046307-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Collana

Studies in law, politics, and society ; ; 39

Altri autori (Persone)

SaratAustin

Disciplina

306.2

Soggetti

Sociological jurisprudence

Political sociology

Anthropology

Political Science - General

Social Science - Criminology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Studies in Law, Politics, and Society; Contents; List of Contributors; Editorial Board; Individual Violence and the Law; From the Insular Cases to Camp X-Ray: Agamben's State of Exception and United States Territorial Law*; Religious Paradigms and the Rule of Law: Thinking in Red and Blue; Did the Burning Cross Speak? Virginia V. Black and the debate between Justices O'Connor and Thomas over the History of Cross Burning; Radical Change, Legal Pragmatism, and Individual Paths to Progress

Cause Lawyering and Social Movements: Can Solo and Small Firm Practitioners Anchor Social Movements?

Sommario/riassunto

This volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" presents a diverse array of articles by an interdisciplinary group of scholars. Their work covers political science, policy studies, and law. Some of the articles published in this issue focus on the sources of conflict and violence as well as law's response to both. Here, research illustrates the complex ways law can be said to be both opposed to violence and yet be violent



itself. Other articles focus on the way judges and other legal actors use law as they interpret it. Taken together they exemplify the exciting and innovative work now being done in interdisciplinary legal scholarship. An interdisciplinary volume that discusses political science, policy science and law, this book is divided into two parts: conflict, violence, and legal processes; and deciding cases, charting progress. It uses case law examples to examine issues.