LEADER 05025nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910821224003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-77093-7 010 $a9786613681706 010 $a1-84855-091-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000765303 035 $a(EBL)453313 035 $a(OCoLC)609843610 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000366333 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11231786 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000366333 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10416669 035 $a(PQKB)11041630 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC453313 035 $a(OCoLC)ocn505064971 035 $a(PPN)187304084 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000765303 100 $a20090817d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aStudies in law, politics, and society$hVolume 45 /$fedited by Austin Sarat 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBingley $cJAI$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (291 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in law, politics, and society ;$vv. 45 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84855-090-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aStudies in Law, Politics, and Society; Copyright page; Contents; List of contributors; Editorial Board; Part I: On Sentencing and Punishment; Chapter 1. Reconceptualizing victimization and agency in the discourse of battered women who kill; Introduction; Self-defence and the evolution of BWS; Limitations of BWS; Questions of agency and victimization in the discourse of battered women who kill; Sentencing of battered women convicted of manslaughter; Summary; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 2. Contextual constraints on defendants' apologies at sentencing; Notes; Acknowledgements 327 $aReferencesChapter 3. Blood relations: Collective memory, cultural trauma, and the prosecution and execution of timothy McVeigh; 1. Introduction; 2. Collective memory, cultural trauma, and the law; 3. Voluntary blood relations; 4. Involuntary blood relations; 5. Enduring para-social legacies: Impressions of mcveigh's conduct at trial; 6. The communicative ramifications of McVeigh's execution; 7. Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Appendix. Participant Characteristics; Chapter 4. Power, politics, and penality: Punitiveness as backlash in American democracies; Introduction 327 $aExplaining Hyper-PenalityDemocratization, neoliberalism, and Hyper-Penality in the Americas; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Part II: Lawyering for the Public Good?; Chapter 5. Legal aid's logics; Introduction; Governmentality studies; Previous legal aid research; Method; Neo-liberalism's arrival; Pastoralism; Conclusions; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 6. Cause lawyers as legal innovators with and against the state: Symbiosis or oppositionquest; Social movement cause lawyers and state bureaucrats; Cause lawyers and the legal arena in state theory 327 $aPart II: The value of cause lawyers for state actors: legal innovation, competing state institutions, and political re-configurationPart III: Cause lawyer-state interactions in the disaggregated, embedded state; Conclusions; Notes; Acknowledgements; References; Part III: New Perspectives in Legal Doctrine; Chapter 7. Ignored no longer: Contributions of the law of agency to principal-agency theory and congressional leadership; 1. The law of agency; 2. Basics of principal-agent theory; 3. Contributions from agency law to principal-agency theory 327 $a4. Difficulties and discontinuity brought by agency law5. Concluding thoughts; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 8. Reforming labor law in the Czech republic: International sources of change; Introduction; Theoretical framework; Bureaucratic Imposition: Czech Communism and Labor Law; EU requirements: Bureaucratic voluntarism and Czech labor law; Boundaries to contractualism; The politics of labor law transformation; Conclusions; References 330 $aThis forty-fifth volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" brings together the work of scholars from several disciplines, work which usefully illuminates central questions surrounding the operation of law and legal systems. Their work offers new perspectives on sentencing and punishment, lawyering for the public good, and the meaning of legal doctrine. The articles published here exemplify the exciting and innovative work now being done in interdisciplinary legal scholarship. 410 0$aStudies in law, politics, and society ;$vv. 45. 606 $aSociological jurisprudence 606 $aLaw$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aSociological jurisprudence. 615 0$aLaw$xPolitical aspects. 676 $a158.3 701 $aSarat$b Austin$0254475 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821224003321 996 $aStudies in law, politics and society$93940607 997 $aUNINA