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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784832903321

Titolo

Law and society reconsidered [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Austin Sarat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Oxford, : Elsevier JAI, 2007

ISBN

9786611112516

0-08-055659-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Collana

Studies in law, politics, and society ; ; v. 41, special issue

Altri autori (Persone)

SaratAustin

Disciplina

340.115

Soggetti

Sociological jurisprudence

Law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Special issue."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; Special Issue Law and Society Reconsidered; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Editorial Board; Chapter 1. Embracing Eclecticism; Chapter 2. Dr. Strangelove (Or: How I Learned to stop Worrying and Love Methodology); Chapter 3. Precedents of Injustice: Thinking About History in Law and Society Scholarship; Chapter 4. Deconstructing Law and Society: A Sociolegal Aesthetics; Chapter 5. Would you Like Theory with that? Bridging the Divide Between Policy-Oriented Empirical Legal Research, Critical Theory and Politics

Chapter 6. International Law and Sociolegal Scholarship: Toward a Spatial Global Legal PluralismChapter 7. Policing and the Politics of Public and Private in Post-Katrina New Orleans; Chapter 8. Remorse and Psychopathy at the Penalty Phase of the Capital Trial - How Psychiatry's View of ''Moral Insanity'' Helps Build the Case for Death

Sommario/riassunto

This volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society presents a unique special issue ""Law and Society Reconsidered.""