Studies in law, politics, and society. Vol. 57

This volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society contains an international and interdisciplinary array of legal scholarship. Presenting diverse theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, this work illuminates the laws response to its social context as well as the way law shapes that...

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Other Authors Sarat, Austin
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2012.
SeriesStudies in law, politics, and society.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781780526232
ISSN1059-4337
DOI10.1108/S1059-4337(2012)57
Physical Description1 online resource (x, 246 p.) : ill.

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Table of Contents:
  • It's not about race, it's about rights / Ann Sullivan, Valmaine Toki
  • Legislative abolition of the death penalty : a qualitative analysis / Kevin H. Wozniak
  • The most restrictive alternative : a litigation history of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons, 1960-2006 / Keramet Ann Reiter
  • Return of the wrongly convicted : the test for post-conviction executive references in Australia / David Caruso
  • Measuring legal formalism : reading hard cases with soft frames / Michal Alberstein
  • On law's promise : thinking about how we think about law's limits / Nicky Priaulx.