Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought (Series)

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Identities, Politics, and Rights

Edited by Austin Sarat & Thomas R. Kearns
Subjects: Law, Political Science, American Politics
Series: Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

A reevaluation of how rights liberate and constrain human behavior

Human Rights

Concepts, Contests, Contingencies

Edited by Austin Sarat & Thomas R. Kearns
Subjects: Law, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Political Science
Series: Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

Brings together essays that examine contestation and contingency in today's human rights politics

The Rhetoric of Law

Edited by Austin Sarat & Thomas R. Kearns
Subjects: Law, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Political Science, American Politics
Series: Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

An interdisciplinary critique of the relationship between words and the law

Law's Violence

Edited by Austin Sarat & Thomas R. Kearns
Subjects: Law, Political Science, American Politics
Series: Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

Seven diverse voices probe the use of violence to enforce law and the effect of this use of violence on law

Justice and Injustice in Law and Legal Theory

Edited by Austin Sarat & Thomas R. Kearns
Subjects: Law, Philosophy, Sociology, Political Science, American Politics
Series: Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

Explores the relationship between law and justice

Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics, and the Law

Edited by Austin Sarat & Thomas R. Kearns
Subjects: Law, Cultural Studies
Series: Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

How do moves to recognize ethnic and cultural identity affect the idea of equality before the law?

Law in Everyday Life

Edited by Austin Sarat & Thomas R. Kearns
Subjects: Law, Political Science, American Politics
Series: Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

An exploration of law's place in everyday life and the influence of everyday life on the law

Legal Rights

Historical and Philosophical Perspectives

Edited by Austin Sarat & Thomas R. Kearns
Subjects: Law, Philosophy
Series: Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

Explores the postmodern challenges to efforts to ground rights outside of history and language

Law in the Domains of Culture

Edited by Austin Sarat & Thomas R. Kearns
Subjects: Law
Series: Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

Explores the relationship between culture and law

History, Memory, and the Law

Edited by Austin Sarat & Thomas R. Kearns
Subjects: Law, History
Series: Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

How law uses history and molds memory

The Fate of Law

Edited by Austin Sarat & Thomas R. Kearns
Subjects: Law, Political Science, American Politics
Series: Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

Assesses the impact of intellectual and political movements of the late twentieth century on law and legal theory

The Place of Law

Edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Umphrey
Subjects: Law, Sociology, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Political Science
Series: Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

An important book that urges us to ask about the usefulness of metaphors of place in the design of legal regulation

Law's Madness

Edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Umphrey
Subjects: Law, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies, Political Science
Series: Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

A provocative collection of essays that reveals how the law takes its definition from what it excludes

Lives in the Law

Edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Umphrey
Subjects: Law, History
Series: Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

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

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