Pubbl/distr/stampa	Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c1996
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (182 p.)
Disciplina	340/.1
Altri autori (Persone)	KearnsThomas R SaratAustin
Collana	Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought
Soggetto topico	Justice Law - Philosophy Law - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-42352-5 9786612423529 0-472-02368-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Legal justice and injustice : toward a situated perspective / Thomas R. Kearns and Austin Sarat -- The injustice of policing : prehistory and rectitude / Michael Taussig -- Undoing historical injustice / Robert W. Gordon -- Justice for all? Marriage, and deprivation of citizenship in the United States / Nancy F. Cott -- Freedom, equality, pornography / Joshua Cohen -- Judicial supremacy, the concept of law, and the sanctity of life / Frank Michelman.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910456348403321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1999
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (276 p.)
Disciplina	364.66/0973
Soggetto topico	Capital punishment - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-585-21168-X 9786610531936 1-280-53193-2 0-19-802827-X 1-4237-6321-1 0-19-534918-0 1-60256-742-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Contributors; Capital Punishment as a Fact of Legal, Political, and Cultural Life: An Introduction; I. THE POLITICS OF STATE KILLING; 1. After the Terror: Mortality, Equality, Fraternity; 2. Abolishing the Death Penalty Even for the Worst Murderers; 3. A Juridical Frankenstein, Or Death in the Hands of the State; 4. Tokens of Our Esteem: Aggravating Factors in the Era of Deregulated Death Penalties; II. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND LEGAL VALUES; 5. ""Always More to Do"": Capital Punishment and the (De)Composition of Law 6. The Executioner's Dissonant Song: On Capital Punishment and American Legal Values7. Selling a Quick Fix for Boot Hill: The Myth of Justice Delayed in Death Cases; III. THE DEATH PENALTY AND THE CULTURE OF RESPONSIBILITY; 8. The Will, Capital Punishment, and Cultural War; 9. Beyond Intention: A Critique of the ""Normal"" Criminal Agency, Responsibility, and Punishment in American Death Penalty Jurisprudence; 10. The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment: Responsibility and Representation in Dead Man Walking and Last Dance; Index;
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457970703321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Bingley, : JAI, 2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (183 p.)
Disciplina	809.93 809.933554
Altri autori (Persone)	SaratAustin
Collana	Studies in law, politics and society
Soggetto topico	Law and literature Law in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-280-77179-8 9786613682567 1-84950-561-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front cover; Special Issue Law and Literature Reconsidered; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Editorial board; Chapter 1. ''E proboscis unum: Law, literature, love, and the limits of sovereignty''; Notes; References; Chapter 2. What is it like to be like that? The progress of law and literature's ''other'' project; Introduction; 1. The taxonomic phase: Cataloging life's characters To help our clients; 2. The empathetic phase: experiencing others' lives, The better to help them; 3. The exemplary phase: Re-reading Plato's Republic Conclusion: The Republic constituting the RepublicNotes; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 3. The law, the norm, and the novel; 1. The uses of the Victorians; 2. The norm, the law, and James Fitzjames Stephen; 3. ''Mad today and sane tomorrow'': Sensation fiction and the law; 4. A misunderstood relation; Notes; References; Chapter 4. Aesthetic judgment and legal justification; 1. Literary discourse and aesthetic judgment; 2. Legal institutions; 3. The rhetoric of legal justification; 4. Conclusion: the aesthetic predicament of legal criticism; References Chapter 5. Textual properties: The limit of law and literature - Towards a Gothic jurisprudenceMimesis - The scene of a crime; Literature before the law; Spectres of law and literature - 'Gothic devilism'10; Monster/text/pharmakon - Mary Shelley's Frankestein; Conclusion: ''Take precisely this example''; Notes; References; Chapter 6. ''Reading as if for life'': Law and literature is more important than ever; Hermeneutics and the legal culture; Narrative and the law; Notes; References; Chapter 7. African American literature and the law; Notes; References
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910455015103321

Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Bingley, : JAI, 2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (183 p.)
Disciplina	809.93 809.933554
Altri autori (Persone)	SaratAustin
Collana	Studies in law, politics and society
Soggetto topico	Law and literature Law in literature Anthropology Law - Jurisprudence Literary Criticism - General
ISBN	1-280-77179-8 9786613682567 1-84950-561-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	"E proboscis unum: law, literature, love, and the limits of sovereignty" / Harriet Murav -- What is it like to be like that? : the progress of law and literature's "other" project / Rob Atkinson -- The law, the norm, and the novel / Sara Murphy -- Aesthetic judgment and legal justification / Guyora Binder -- Textual properties: the limit of law and literature : towards a gothic jurisprudence / Susan Chaplin -- "Reading as if for life" : law and literature is more important than ever / Teresa Godwin Phelps -- African American literature and the law / Jon-Christian Suggs.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910815594703321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amherst : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2017
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (ix, 177 pages )
Disciplina	393/.9
Collana	Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought
Soggetto topico	Law - Social aspects - United States Mourning customs - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-61376-530-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Law and mourning: an introduction / Martha Merrill Umphrey, Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas -- Mourning in America : what's law got to do with it? / Ray D. Madoff -- The mourning after : posthumous sperm retrieval and the new laws of mourning / Shai J. Lavi -- To weep Irish : keening and the law / Andrea Brady -- Listening within the "grief of distortions" / Ann Pellegrini -- Psychoanalysis, mourning, and the law : Achreber's paranoia as crisis of judging / Mark Sanders -- Does mourning become the law? : commodity fetishism and political contestation / Catherine Kellogg.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910494733503321