Pain, Death, and the Law

• Hardcover | Engels | Law, Meaning, and Violence
• This collection of essays examines the relationship between pain, death, and the law and addresses the question of how the law constructs pain and dea... Lees meer

Strangers to the Law

Lisa Melinda Keen, Suzanne Beth Goldberg

• Paperback | Engels | Law, Meaning, and Violence
• In 1992, the voters of Colorado passed a ballot initiative amending the state constitution to prevent the state or any local government from adopting ... Lees meer

The Limits to Union

Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller

• Paperback | Engels | Law, Meaning, and Violence
• Revised and updated to include the most current information on same-sex marriage, The Limits to Union documents a legal struggle at its moment of grea... Lees meer

Suing the Gun Industry

• Paperback | Engels | Law, Meaning, and Violence
• "Mass tort litigation against the gun industry, with its practical weaknesses, successes, and goals, provides the framework for this collection of tho... Lees meer

The Truth Machines

Jinee Lokaneeta

• Hardcover | Engels | Law, Meaning, and Violence
• Using case studies and the results of extensive fieldwork, this book considers the nature of state power and legal violence in liberal democracies by ... Lees meer

Keeping Hold of Justice

Jennifer Balint, Julie Evans, Nesam McMillan, Mark David McMillan

• Hardcover | Engels | Law, Meaning, and Violence
• Keeping Hold of Justice focuses on a select range of encounters between law and colonialism from the early nineteenth century to the present. It empha... Lees meer

The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law

Leora Yedida Bilsky

• Paperback | Engels | Law, Meaning, and Violence
• The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law explores the challenge posed by the Holocaust to legal and political thought by examining issues raised by th... Lees meer

Archiving Sovereignty

Stewart Motha

• Paperback | Engels | Law, Meaning, and Violence
• Archiving Sovereignty shows how courts use fiction in their treatment of sovereign violence. Law's complicity with imperial and neocolonial practices ... Lees meer

Whispered Consolations

Jon-Christian Suggs

• Hardcover | Engels | Law, Meaning, and Violence
• African Americans have experienced life under the rule of law in quite different contexts from those of whites, and they have written about those diff... Lees meer

The First Global Prosecutor

Martha Minow, C Cora True-Frost, Alex Whiting

• Hardcover | Engels | Law, Meaning, and Violence
• The establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) gave rise to the first permanent Office of the Prosecutor (OTP), with independent powers o... Lees meer

Punishment and Political Order

Keally McBride

• Paperback | Engels | Law, Meaning, and Violence
• Most of us think of punishment as an ugly display of power. But punishment also tells us something about the ideals and aspirations of a people and th... Lees meer

From Noose to Needle

Timothy Vance Kaufman-Osborn

• Paperback | Engels | Law, Meaning, and Violence
• From Noose to Needle contributes a new perspective on the controversial topic of capital punishment by asking how the conduct of state killing reveals... Lees meer

The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law

Leora Yedida Bilsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Law, Meaning, and Violence
• The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law explores the challenge posed by the Holocaust to legal and political thought by examining issues raised by th... Lees meer

Dying Inside

Benjamin Dov Fleury-Steiner

• Hardcover | Engels | Law, Meaning, and Violence
• "The HIV+ men incarcerated in Limestone Prison's Dorm 16 were put there to be forgotten. Not only do Benjamin Fleury-Steiner and Carla Crowder bring t... Lees meer

Punishing Schools

Lyons, Julie Drew

• Paperback | Engels | Law, Meaning, and Violence
• In a society increasingly dominated by zero-tolerance thinking, Punishing Schools argues that our educational system has become both the subject of le... Lees meer

Sacred Violence

Paul W Kahn

• Hardcover | Engels | Law, Meaning, and Violence
• In Sacred Violence , the distinguished political and legal theorist Paul W. Kahn investigates the reasons for the resort to violence characteristic of... Lees meer

Communities and Law

Gad Barzilai

• Paperback | Engels | Law, Meaning, and Violence
• Communities and Law looks at minorities, or nonruling communities, and their identity practices under state domination in the midst of globalization. ... Lees meer

Surveillance, Privacy, and the Law

John Gilliom

• Paperback | Engels | Law, Meaning, and Violence
• Employee drug testing is an invasive and controversial new social control policy that burst into the American work place during the war on drugs of th... Lees meer

Laws of the Postcolonial

• Hardcover | Engels | Law, Meaning, and Violence
• Although postcolonialism is now the main mode in which the West's relation to the "other" is critically explored, and although law has been at the for... Lees meer

Archiving Sovereignty

Stewart Motha

• Hardcover | Engels | Law, Meaning, and Violence
• Archiving Sovereignty shows how courts use fiction in their treatment of sovereign violence. Law's complicity with imperial and neocolonial practices ... Lees meer

Butterfly, the Bride

Carol Weisbrod

• Paperback | Engels | Law, Meaning, and Violence
• Carol Weisbrod uses a variety of stories to raise important questions about how society, through law, defines relationships in the family. Beginning w... Lees meer

Biblical Judgments

Daphne Barak-Erez

• Hardcover | Engels | Law, Meaning, and Violence
• Biblical Judgments invites readers to consider today's timeless dilemmas of law and government, social justice, and human rights, through the perspect... Lees meer

The Powers That Punish

Charles Bright

• Hardcover | Engels | Law, Meaning, and Violence
• In a pathbreaking study of a major state prison, Michigan's Jackson State Penitentiary during the middle years of this century, Charles Bright address... Lees meer

Hybrid Justice

John D Ciorciari, Anne Heindel

• Hardcover | Engels | Law, Meaning, and Violence
• Since 2006, the United Nations and Cambodian Government have participated in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, a hybrid tribunal c... Lees meer