LEADER 03306nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910462294403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8047-8390-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804783903 035 $a(CKB)2670000000276983 035 $a(EBL)1074040 035 $a(OCoLC)819635334 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000779950 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12345207 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000779950 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10777789 035 $a(PQKB)10337160 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127850 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1074040 035 $a(DE-B1597)563723 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804783903 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1074040 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10627773 035 $a(OCoLC)1198929138 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000276983 100 $a20120109d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe secrets of law$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cStanford University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (287 p.) 225 1 $aThe Amherst series in law, jursiprudence, and social thought 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-8259-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTransparency and opacity in law : an introduction / Martha Merrill Umphrey, Austin Sarat and Lawrence Douglas -- Open secrets and dirty hands / Alasdair Roberts -- Secret trials and public justice / Lindsay Farmer -- Spousal secrets : same-sex couples and the functional approach to marital evidentiary privileges / Edward Stein -- Wilkie Collins' law books : law, literature, and factual precedent / Bernadette Meyler -- Historiographic secrets of the labour contract : the law and literature of Lewis Jones' "Cwmardy" and "We live" / Melanie Williams -- Duly noted or off the record? : sovereignty and the secrecy of the law in cinema / Richard Burt. 330 $aThe Secrets of Law explores the ways law both traffics in and regulates secrecy. Taking a close look at the opacity built into legal and governance processes, it explores the ways law produces zones of secrecy, the relation between secrecy and justice, and how we understand the inscrutability of law's processes.The first half of the work examines the role of secrecy in contemporary political and legal practices-including the question of transparency in democratic processes during the Bush Administration, the principle of public justice in England's response to the war on te 410 0$aAmherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought. 606 $aLaw and secrecy 606 $aLaw in literature 606 $aSecrecy in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLaw and secrecy. 615 0$aLaw in literature. 615 0$aSecrecy in literature. 676 $a340/.115 701 $aSarat$b Austin$0254475 701 $aDouglas$b Lawrence$0554986 701 $aUmphrey$b Martha Merrill$0913979 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462294403321 996 $aThe secrets of law$92490438 997 $aUNINA