Studies in Law, Politics and Society

Austin Sarat|Patricia Ewick
Hardback
9780762309771
11 December 2002
£83.99
Emerald
Emerald
  • Description
  • Contents
This volume presents articles by interdisciplinary and international scholars spanning the social sciences, humanities, and law. It offers perspectives on political relationships, politics, legal reform, law and the family, race relations and gender issues.

Law and Values: Interpretive freedom and divine law: early rabbinic renderings of divine justice, C. Halberstam; Rawls' law of peoples: an expansion of the prioritization of political over religious values, E. Carpenter; Post modernity and the fading of individual responsibility, J. Krapp; Race in Law: Passing phantasms/sanctioning perfomativities - (re)reading white masculinity in Rhinelander v. Rhine lander, N. Hers; Tortious race, race torts - hate speech, intentional infliction, and the problem of harm, P.L. Rivers; Before or against the law? Citizens' legal beliefs and experiences as death penalty jurors, B. Steiner.