Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Amherst College, Massachusetts and Justice Hugo L. Black Senior Faculty Scholar at the University of Alabama School of Law. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including the recent A World without Privacy (2014), Civility, Legality, and the Limits of Justice (2014), and Re-imagining To Kill a Mockingbird: Family, Community, and the Possibility of Equal Justice under Law (2013). His book When Government Breaks the Law: Prosecuting the Bush Administration was named one of the best books of 2010 by The Huffington Post.
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Guns have never been as prevalent in American culture as they are at this moment. Most contemporary conversations on guns either highlight the gun as just a tool used in mass killings or a right to be fiercely defended; eventually, whatever progress these debates foster...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2018-09-03

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Télécharger le livre :  The Handbook of Law and Society

Bringing a timely synthesis to the field, The Handbook of Law and Society presents a comprehensive overview of key research findings, theoretical developments, and methodological controversies in the field of law and society. Provides illuminating insights into...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2015-04-08
Collection : Wiley Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Télécharger le livre :  The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society

The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society is an authoritative study of the relationship between law and social interaction. Thirty-two original essays by an international group of expert scholars examine a wide range of critical questions. Authors represent various...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2008-04-15
Collection : Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology
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Télécharger le livre :  The Killing State

Over 7,000 people have been legally executed in the United States this century, and over 3,000 men and women now sit on death rows across the country awaiting the same fate. Since the Supreme Court temporarily halted capital punishment in 1972, the death penalty has...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2001-05-24

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Télécharger le livre :  Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era

This volume brings together contextually sensitive, cross-cultural, and comparative research that analyzes the ways in which cause lawyering is influencing, and being influenced by, the disaggregation of state power associated with democratization and globalization.
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2001-05-03

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Télécharger le livre :  Cause Lawyering

Why do some lawyers devote themselves to a given social movement or political cause? How are such deeds of individual commitment and personal belief justly executed, given the ideals of disinterested professional service to which lawyers are (in theory, at least)...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1998-01-08

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Télécharger le livre :  Race, Law, and Culture

When it comes to race and racial issues these are strange times for all Americans. More than forty years after Brown v. Board of Education put an end to segregation of the races by law, current debates about affirmative action, multiculturalism, and racial hate speech...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1997-03-06

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Each year more than 2 million Americans divorced, and most of them use a lawyer. In closed-door conversations between lawyers and their clients strategy is planned, tactics are devised, and the emotional climate of the divorce is established. Do lawyers contribute to...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1995-08-03

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