Special issue the legacy of Stuart Scheingold

This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society focuses on the discourse of judging and the "language of judging" within many diverse legal scenarios. The volume features chapters specifically on: the "language of rights" within the context of abortion and same-sex ma...

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Other Authors Sarat, Austin
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2012.
SeriesStudies in law, politics, and society ; v. 59.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781781903445
ISSN1059-4337 ;
DOI10.1108/S1059-4337(2012)59
Physical Description1 online resource (xiii, 231 p.) : ill.

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Stuart Scheingold, a personal reflection / Austin Sarat
  • The myth of the myth of rights / George I. Lovell
  • "A madman full of paranoid guile" : the myth of rights in the modern American mind / Jeffrey R. Dudas
  • Novelty and the politics of rights / Helena Silverstein
  • Political criminology, the plural state, and the politics of affect / Leonard Feldman
  • Phantom racism and the myth of crime and punishment / Naomi Murakawa
  • Putting politics in its place : reflections on political criminology, immigration and crime / William T. Lyons, Lisa L. Miller
  • Imagining otherness : the political novel and animal rights / Claire E. Rasmussen
  • Scheingold's failure : his finest book / Malcolm M. Feeley
  • Rights, community, and democracy : a sociolegal critique of the neoconservative case against rights / Michael McCann, Stuart Scheingold.