The Limits Of Law (Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought)
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Book Description
This collection brings together well-established scholars to examine the limits of law, a topic that has been of broad interest since the events of 9/11 and the responses of U.S. law and policy to those events. The limiting conditions explored in this volume include marking law's relationship to acts of terror, states of emergency, gestures of surrender, payments of reparations, offers of amnesty, and invocations of retroactivity. These essays explore how law is challenged, frayed, and constituted out of contact with conditions that lie at the farthest reaches of its empirical and normative force.
About the Author
Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. Lawrence Douglas is Professor of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought, Amherst College. Martha Merrill Umphrey is Associate Professor of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought, Amherst College. Together, they are also the editors of "Law on the Screen" (Stanford University Press, 2005).
The Limits Of Law (Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought),Austin Sarat,Lawrence Douglas,Martha Merrill Umphrey,Stanford University Press,0804752354,General,Jurisprudence,Justice,Justice, Administration of,Law,Legal Reference / Law Profession,Political aspects,Restorative justice
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