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Studies in law, politics, and society. Vol. 45
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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 o...
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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- Creator
- edited by Austin Sarat
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Bingley : JAI, 2008
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (291 p.)
- ISBNs
- 1280770937, 9786613681706, 184855091X, 1848550901
- OCLC
- ocn609843610, ocn505064971
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- English
- Studies in Law, Politics, and Society; Copyright page; Contents; List of contributors; Editorial Board; Part I: On Sentencing and Punishment; Chapter 1. Reconceptualizing victimization and agency in the discourse of battered women who kill; Introduction; Self-defence and the evolution of BWS; Limitations of BWS; Questions of agency and victimization in the discourse of battered women who kill; Sentencing of battered women convicted of manslaughter; Summary; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 2. Contextual constraints on defendants' apologies at sentencing; Notes; Acknowledgements
- ReferencesChapter 3. Blood relations: Collective memory, cultural trauma, and the prosecution and execution of timothy McVeigh; 1. Introduction; 2. Collective memory, cultural trauma, and the law; 3. Voluntary blood relations; 4. Involuntary blood relations; 5. Enduring para-social legacies: Impressions of mcveigh's conduct at trial; 6. The communicative ramifications of McVeigh's execution; 7. Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Appendix. Participant Characteristics; Chapter 4. Power, politics, and penality: Punitiveness as backlash in American democracies; Introduction
- Explaining Hyper-PenalityDemocratization, neoliberalism, and Hyper-Penality in the Americas; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Part II: Lawyering for the Public Good?; Chapter 5. Legal aid's logics; Introduction; Governmentality studies; Previous legal aid research; Method; Neo-liberalism's arrival; Pastoralism; Conclusions; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 6. Cause lawyers as legal innovators with and against the state: Symbiosis or oppositionquest; Social movement cause lawyers and state bureaucrats; Cause lawyers and the legal arena in state theory
- Part II: The value of cause lawyers for state actors: legal innovation, competing state institutions, and political re-configurationPart III: Cause lawyer-state interactions in the disaggregated, embedded state; Conclusions; Notes; Acknowledgements; References; Part III: New Perspectives in Legal Doctrine; Chapter 7. Ignored no longer: Contributions of the law of agency to principal-agency theory and congressional leadership; 1. The law of agency; 2. Basics of principal-agent theory; 3. Contributions from agency law to principal-agency theory
- 4. Difficulties and discontinuity brought by agency law5. Concluding thoughts; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 8. Reforming labor law in the Czech republic: International sources of change; Introduction; Theoretical framework; Bureaucratic Imposition: Czech Communism and Labor Law; EU requirements: Bureaucratic voluntarism and Czech labor law; Boundaries to contractualism; The politics of labor law transformation; Conclusions; References