Fifty years after the release of the film version of Harper Lee's acclaimed novel To Kill a Mockingbird, this collection of original essays takes a fresh look at a classic text in legal scholarship. T
From false convictions to botched executions, from erroneous admission of evidence in a criminal trial to misunderstandings that arise in the process of creating contracts, law is awash in mistakes. T
Law and Mourning brings together a distinguished group of scholars to explore the many and complex ways that law both regulates and gives meaning to our experience of loss. The essays in this volume i
It has long been standard practice in legal studies to identify the place of law within the social order. And yet, as The Place of Law suggests, the meaning of the concept of "the place of law&qu
Law and madness? Madness, it seems, exists outside the law and, in principle, society struggles to keep these slippery terms separate. From this perspective, madness appears to be law's foil, the chao
Key binaries like public/private and speech/conduct are mainstays of the liberal legal system. However, the pairing of criminal/enemy has received little scholarly attention by comparison. Bringing to
Drawing on the rich field of performance studies, this volume, the most recent contribution to the distinguished Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, offers fresh insights and a p
As the editors (all of Amherst College) explain in their introduction, how one conceptualizes the idea of "law without nations" depends very much on how one theorizes "the nation." A Hobbesian view of
Essays examine the different meanings of the limits of law: descriptive, normative, and constitutive. They take as their focus law's relationship to "transitional moments and spectral spaces" acts of
The proliferation of images of law, legal processes, and officials on television and in film is a phenomenon of enormous significance. Mass-mediated images are as powerful, pervasive, and important a
Six lectures presented at Amherst College in Massachusetts during the 2004-05 academic year sample some of the ways that the knowledge-acquisition practices of various aspects of law impact legal outc
Law depends on various modes of classification. How an act or a person is classified may be crucial in determining the rights obtained, the procedures employed, and what understandings get attached to
Imagining New Legalities reminds us that examining the right to privacy and the public/private distinction is an important way of mapping the forms and limits of power that can legitimately be exercis
Six papers from a lecture series at Amherst College during the 2001-02 academic year present perspectives from American scholars mostly of law, but also political science and Middle Eastern studies. T
Our definitions of catastrophe have changed but our legal systems have not, despite extensive scholarship on the causes and effects of catastrophic events, including those caused by civil war and terr
"This Pioneering Book Directly Addresses the Leading Legal Issue of Our Day: How Does The Law Deal (or not) With the Stranger? By Way of Response, This Question Occasions A Dazzling Range of Perspecti
Weapons have been a source of political and legal debate for centuries. Aristotle considered the possession of arms a fundamental source of political power and wrote that tyrants "mistrust the people
A collection of wide-ranging critical essays that examine how the judicial system is represented on screen Historically, the emergence of the trial film genre coincided with the development of mo