Guns in Law

Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2019
University of Massachusetts Press (Verlag)
978-1-62534-428-1 (ISBN)

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Today ownership of weapons poses more acute legal problems than ever before. In this volume, contributors confront urgent questions, among them the usefulness of history as a guide in ongoing struggles over gun regulation, the changing meaning of the Second Amendment, the perspective of law enforcement, and individual perspectives on gun rights.

Weapons have been a source of political and legal debate for centuries. Aristotle considered the possession of arms a fundamental source of political power and wrote that tyrants ""mistrust the people and deprive them of their arms."" Today ownership of weapons - whether handguns or military-grade assault weapons - poses more acute legal problems than ever before. In this volume, the editors' introduction traces the history of gun control in the United States, arguing that until the 1980s courts upheld reasonable gun control measures. The contributors confront urgent questions, among them the usefulness of history as a guide in ongoing struggles over gun regulation, the changing meaning of the Second Amendment, the perspective of law enforcement on guns and gun control law, and individual and relational perspectives on gun rights.

The contributors include the editors and Carl T. Bogus, Jennifer Carlson, Saul Cornell, Darrell A.H. Miller, Laura Beth Nielsen, and Katherine Shaw.

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and associate dean of faculty at Amherst College. Lawrence Douglas is James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College. Martha Merrill Umphrey is Bertrand H. Snell 1894 Professor in American Government and director of the Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Amherst College.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.06.2019
Reihe/Serie	The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought
Zusatzinfo	8 black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	Massachusetts
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 231 mm
Gewicht	468 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
ISBN-10	1-62534-428-7 / 1625344287
ISBN-13	978-1-62534-428-1 / 9781625344281
Zustand	Neuware