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Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns
The essays in this book examine law as an active participant in the process through which history is written and memory is constructed. Instead of seeing law as a'victim'of history, the writers treat law as an author of history, not just in the instr
Autor:
Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns
Today the language of human rights, if not human rights themselves, is nearly universal. Human Rights brings together essays that attend to both the allure and criticism of human rights. They examine contestation and contingency in today's human righ
Autor:
Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns
We are witnessing in the last decade of the twentieth century more frequent demands by racial and ethnic groups for recognition of their distinctive histories and traditions as well as opportunities to develop and maintain the institutional infrastru
Autor:
Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns
The concept of culture is troublingly vague and, at the same time, hotly contested, and law's relations to culture are as complex, varied and disputed as the concept of culture itself. The concept of the traditional, unified, reified, civilizing idea
Autor:
Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns
'Sarat and Kearns... have edited a truly marvelous work on the impact of the law on daily life and vice versa.... the essays are all exemplary, thought- provoking works worthy of a long, contemplative read by scholars, lawyers, and judges alike.'--Ch
Autor:
Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns
The idea of legal rights today enjoys virtually universal appeal, yet all too often the meaning and significance of rights are poorly understood. The purpose of this volume is to clarify the subject of legal rights by drawing on both historical and p
Autor:
Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns
'In bringing together accomplished and thoughtful scholars of different disciplines, with a command of literature ranging from the legal to the literary, and in relating the works to the central arguments of the late Professor Robert Cover, Sarat and
Autor:
Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns
Law is a profession of words. Simultaneously celebratory of great prose and dogmatically insistent on precise usage, law is a stage for verbal virtuosity, linguistic mastery, and persuasive argument. Yet the linguistic display is not without substanc
Autor:
Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns
Running through the history of jurisprudence and legal theory is a recurring concern about the connections between law and justice and about the ways law is implicated in injustice. In earlier times law and justice were viewed as virtually synonymous
Autor:
Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns
For law and legal theory the end of the twentieth century is a time of contradiction; while the newly emerging politics of Eastern Europe seek to establish a new rule of law, voices in this country proclaim the'death of law.'For the former, law provi