The Affective Life of Law

Ravit Reichman

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Lives of Law
• Unhampered by the practical limits lawyers and judges face, literature expresses the unspoken sentiments that underpin legal doctrine. Through reading... Lees meer

Tort, Custom, and Karma

David Engel, Jaruwan S Engel

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Lives of Law
• Diverse societies are now connected by globalization, but how do ordinary people feel about law as they cope day-to-day with a transformed world? Tort... Lees meer

Zooland

Irus Braverman

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Lives of Law
• This book takes a unique stance on a controversial topic: zoos. Zoos have their ardent supporters and their vocal detractors. And while we all have op... Lees meer

Lex Populi

William P MacNeil

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Lives of Law
• This is a book about jurisprudence--or legal philosophy. The legal philosophical texts under consideration are--to say the least--unorthodox. Tolkien,... Lees meer

Fault Lines

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Lives of Law
• Tort law, a fundamental building block of every legal system, features prominently in mass culture and political debates. As this pioneering anthology... Lees meer

Letters of the Law

Sora Y Han

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Lives of Law
• One of the hallmark features of the post-civil rights United States is the reign of colorblindness over national conversations about race and law. But... Lees meer

Our Word Is Our Bond

Marianne Constable

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Lives of Law
• Words can be misspoken, misheard, misunderstood, or misappropriated; they can be inappropriate, inaccurate, dangerous, or wrong. When speech goes wron... Lees meer

Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference

Chloé Deambrogio

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Lives of Law
• In Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference , Chloé Deambrogio explores how developments in the field of forensic psychiatry shaped American courts' ass... Lees meer

Crimesploitation

Daniel LaChance, Paul Kaplan

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Lives of Law
• "Due to the graphic nature of this program, viewer discretion is advised." Most of us have encountered this warning while watching television at some ... Lees meer

Tort, Custom, and Karma

David Engel, Jaruwan S Engel

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Lives of Law
• Diverse societies are now connected by globalization, but how do ordinary people feel about law as they cope day-to-day with a transformed world? Tort... Lees meer

All Judges Are Political--Except When They Are Not

Keith Bybee

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Lives of Law
• We live in an age where one person's judicial "activist" legislating from the bench is another's impartial arbiter fairly interpreting the law. After ... Lees meer

Raised Right

Jeffrey R Dudas

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Lives of Law
• How has the modern conservative movement thrived in spite of the lack of harmony among its constituent members? What, and who, holds together its larg... Lees meer

Imagining the International

Nesam McMillan

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Lives of Law
• International crime and justice are powerful ideas, associated with a vivid imagery of heinous atrocities, injured humanity, and an international comm... Lees meer

Zooland

Irus Braverman

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Lives of Law
• This book takes a unique stance on a controversial topic: zoos. Zoos have their ardent supporters and their vocal detractors. And while we all have op... Lees meer

Better Left Unsaid

Nora Gilbert

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Lives of Law
• Better Left Unsaid is in the unseemly position of defending censorship from the central allegations that are traditionally leveled against it. Taking ... Lees meer

The Street Politics of Abortion

Joshua C Wilson

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Lives of Law
• The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade stands as a historic victory for abortion-rights activists. But rather than serving as the coda to what... Lees meer

Lex Populi

William P MacNeil

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Lives of Law
• This is a book about jurisprudence--or legal philosophy. The legal philosophical texts under consideration are--to say the least--unorthodox. Tolkien,... Lees meer

After Secular Law

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Lives of Law
• Many today place great hope in law as a vehicle for the transformation of society and accept that law is autonomous, universal, and above all, secular... Lees meer

Pregnant with the Stars

Renée Ann Cramer

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Lives of Law
• "Check out that baby bump!" Online and print magazines, television shows, and personal blogs are awash with gossip and speculation about pregnant cele... Lees meer

Letters of the Law

Sora Y Han

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Lives of Law
• One of the hallmark features of the post-civil rights United States is the reign of colorblindness over national conversations about race and law. But... Lees meer

Raised Right

Jeffrey R Dudas

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Lives of Law
• How has the modern conservative movement thrived in spite of the lack of harmony among its constituent members? What, and who, holds together its larg... Lees meer

Riding the Black Ram

Susan Heinzelman

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Lives of Law
• Unruly women are not often represented in a good light. Whether historical, or fictional, disruptive women with their real or imagined excesses have l... Lees meer

Law in Crisis

Ruth A Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Lives of Law
• Taking natural disaster as the political and legal norm is uncommon. Taking a person who has become unstable and irrational during a disaster as the s... Lees meer

License to Harass

Laura Beth Nielsen

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Lives of Law
• Offensive street speech--racist and sexist remarks that can make its targets feel both psychologically and physically threatened--is surprisingly comm... Lees meer