| The Limits of Law Contributor(s): Sarat, Austin (Editor), Douglas, Lawrence (Editor), Umphrey, Martha Merrill (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0804752354 ISBN-13: 9780804752350 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $76.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2005 Annotation: "T]he essays collected in The Limits of Law," and the editors' well-crafted introductory essay, present 'law' in all of its richness and complexity."--Law and Politics Book Review" "These essays collectively give weight to the editors' claim, put forward in the introduction, that the study of law's limits has always, perhaps paradoxically, been central to the study of law's core, as well as to their deeper jurisprudential argument that law's normative, descriptive, and constitutive limits define law and its relation to power. An important collection for everyone interested in contemporary debates in jurisprudence, socio-cultural studies, and political theory, regarding law's reach, coherence, and desirability." --Robin West, Georgetown University Law Center |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law |
| Dewey: 340.11 |
| LCCN: 2005007944 |
| Series: The Amherst Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 6.26" W x 9.38" (1.28 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection examines limits of law, a topic that has been of broad interest since the events of 9/11 and the responses of U.S. law and policy to those events. The limiting conditions explored in this volume include marking law's relationship to acts of terror, states of emergency, gestures of surrender, payments of reparations, offers of amnesty, and invocations of retroactivity. |