Lives in the Law

Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Umphrey (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2002
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-11253-1 (ISBN)

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Examines how the lives of individuals, social groups, and nations are fashioned by their engagement with the law

The essays look at the consequences that legal practice has on the lives of its practitioners as well as on the individual legal subject and on the shape of shared identities. These essays challenge liberal and communitarian notions of what it means to live the law.
In the first of the essays, Pnina Lahav presents a study of the Chicago Seven Trial to paint a picture of the law's power to serve as a site for the definition of a collective group identity. In contrast, Sarah Gordon focuses on the experience of an individual legal subject, namely, the defendant in the Hester Vaughn trial, a notorious nineteenth-century case of infanticide. Frank Munger looks at how law constructs the identity of women and explores the strategies by which poor women resist the law's construction of their dependency. In the fourth essay, Vicki Schultz offers a moral vision of equality that straddles the liberal and communitarian positions with her articulation of the concept of a "life's work." Lastly, Annette Wieviorka examines the recent trial of Maurice Papon for complicity in crimes against humanity to reveal how the very identity of a nation--in this case, France--can be defined through juridical and legal acts.
Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, Amherst College. Lawrence Douglas is Associate Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, Amherst College. Martha Umphrey is Assistant Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, Amherst College.

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. Lawrence Douglas is Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College. Martha Merrill Umphrey is Associate Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College.

Theoretical perspectives on lives in the law : an introduction / Lawrence Douglas, Austin Sarat, and Martha Umphrey -- The Chicago conspiracy trial as a Jewish morality tale / Pnina Lahav -- Law and everyday death : infanticide and the backlash against woman's rights after the Civil War / Sarah Barringer Gordon -- Dependency by law : welfare and identity in the lives of poor women / Frank Munger -- Labor's subjects / Vicki Schultz.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.6.2002
Reihe/Serie	Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought
Verlagsort	Ann Arbor
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	0-472-11253-8 / 0472112538
ISBN-13	978-0-472-11253-1 / 9780472112531
Zustand	Neuware