Overview

This forty-fifth volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society brings together the work of scholars from several disciplines, work which usefully illuminates central questions surrounding the operation of law and legal systems. Their work offers new perspectives on sentencing and punishment, lawyering for the public good, and the meaning of legal doctrine. The articles published here exemplify the exciting and innovative work now being done in interdisciplinary legal scholarship.

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Author:   Austin Sarat ,  Austin Sarat
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint:   Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Volume:   66
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
ISBN:  

9781848550902

ISBN 10:   1848550901
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 September 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Reconceptualizing victimization and agency in the discourse of battered women who kill. Contextual constraints on defendants' apologies at sentencing. Blood relations: Collective memory, cultural trauma, and the prosecution and execution of timothy McVeigh. Power, politics, and penality: Punitiveness as backlash in American democracies. Legal aid's logics. Cause lawyers as legal innovators with and against the state: Symbiosis or opposition?. Ignored no longer: Contributions of the law of agency to principal-agency theory and congressional leadership. Reforming labor law in the Czech republic: International sources of change. List of Contributors. Studies in law, politics, and society. Studies in law, politics, and society. Copyright page. EDITORIAL BOARD.

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