Overview :Does the law shield citizens from authoritarian regimes? Are the core beliefs of classical liberalism--namely the rights of all individuals ... Read More
Overview :The proliferation of images of law, legal processes, and officials on television and in film is a phenomenon of enormous significance. Mass-... Read More
Overview :In an era marked by political polarization, institutional strain, and global uncertainty, Is Democracy Doomed? confronts one of the most urg... Read More
Overview :Beginning with an overview of the history and philosophy of punishment, these articles explore penal practices in the modern state and the d... Read More
Overview :Drawing on the rich field of performance studies, this volume, the most recent contribution to the distinguished Amherst Series in Law, Juri... Read More
Overview :Key binaries like public/private and speech/conduct are mainstays of the liberal legal system. However, the pairing of criminal/enemy has re... Read More
Overview :Weapons have been a source of political and legal debate for centuries. Aristotle considered the possession of arms a fundamental source of ... Read More
Overview :Arguments for forgiveness, mercy, and clemency abound. These arguments flourish in organized religion, fiction, philosophy, and law as well ... Read More
Overview :Law calls communities into being and constitutes the "we" it governs. This act of defining produces an outside as well as an inside, a borde... Read More
Overview :Throughout American history, the discourse of civility has proven quite resilient, and concern for a perceived lack of civility has ebbed an... Read More
Overview :Should law be left to the lawyers? Is legal education properly understood as technical education? Law in the Liberal Arts answers "no" and s... Read More
Overview :The possibility of law in the absence of a nation would seem to strip law from its source of meaning and value. At the same time, law divorc... Read More
Overview :Law is a profession of words. Simultaneously celebratory of great prose and dogmatically insistent on precise usage, law is a stage for verb... Read More
Overview :The concept of culture is troublingly vague and, at the same time, hotly contested, and law's relations to culture are as complex, varied an... Read More
Overview :Law punishes violence, yet law depends on violence. In this book, a group of leading interdisciplinary legal scholars seeks to map the inexo... Read More