Law and the humanities : an introduction / edited by Austin Sarat, Matthew Anderson, Cathrine O. Frank.

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Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010Description: 1 online resource (xi, 539 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780511657535 (ebook)

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Law & the Humanities

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344/.097 22

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K487.H86 L39 2010

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Contents:

A humanities of resistance : fragments for a legal history of humanity / Costas Douzinas -- Three tales of two texts : an introduction to law and the humanities / Kathryn Abrams -- Law, culture, and humility / Steven L. Winter -- Biblical justice : the passion of the God of justice / Chaya Halberstam -- Ideas of justice : natural and human / Catherine Kellogg -- Ideas of justice : positive / Matthew Noah Smith -- Postmodern justice / Peter Goodrich -- Imagining the law : the novel / Susan Sage Heinzelman -- Imagining law as film (representation without reference?) / Richard K. Sherwin -- Law and television : screen phenomena and captive audiences / Susanna Lee -- Imagining the law : art / Christine Haight Farley -- Language / Penny Pether -- Interpretation / Francis J. Mootz III -- Narrative and rhetoric / Ravit Reichman -- Justice as translation / Harriet Murav -- The constitution of history and memory / Ariela Gross -- Trials / Lindsay Farmer -- Testimony, witnessing / Jan-Melissa Schramm -- Judgment in law and the humanities / Desmond Manderson -- Punishment / Karl Shoemaker.

Summary: Law and the Humanities: An Introduction brings together a distinguished group of scholars from law schools and an array of the disciplines in the humanities. Contributors come from the United States and abroad in recognition of the global reach of this field. This book is, at one and the same time, a stock taking both of different national traditions and of the various modes and subjects of law and humanities scholarship. It is also an effort to chart future directions for the field. By reviewing and analyzing existing scholarship and providing thematic content and distinctive arguments, it offers to its readers both a resource and a provocation. Thus, Law and the Humanities marks the maturation of this 'law and' enterprise and will spur its further development.

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Law and the Humanities: An Introduction brings together a distinguished group of scholars from law schools and an array of the disciplines in the humanities. Contributors come from the United States and abroad in recognition of the global reach of this field. This book is, at one and the same time, a stock taking both of different national traditions and of the various modes and subjects of law and humanities scholarship. It is also an effort to chart future directions for the field. By reviewing and analyzing existing scholarship and providing thematic content and distinctive arguments, it offers to its readers both a resource and a provocation. Thus, Law and the Humanities marks the maturation of this 'law and' enterprise and will spur its further development.