Sarat / Simon Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law

Moving Beyond Legal Realism
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8475-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

This interdisciplinary collection demonstrates the purchase of cultural studies frameworks for thinking about legal questions beyond the reach of the Law & Economics framework.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sarat, Austin D.

Simon, Jonathan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mezey, Naomi

Miller, Tobey

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Situation of Legal Scholarship / Austin Sarat and Jonathan Simon 1

I. Approaches to the Cultural Study of Law

Law as Culture / Naomi Mezey 37

What It Is and What It Isn't: Cultural Studies Meets Graduate Student Labor / Toby Miller 73

Telling a Less Suspicious Story: Notes toward a Nonskeptical Approach to Legal/Cultural Analysis / Paul Schiff Berman 105

Freedom, Autonomy, and the Cultural Studies of Law / Paul W. Kahn 154

II. Deploying Law and Legal Ideas in Culture and Society

Ethnography and Democracy: Texts and Contexts in the United States in the 1990s / Carol J. Greenhouse 191

Rules of Law, Laws of Science / Wai Chee Dimock 220

Law, Therapy, Culture / Peter Brooks 245

III. Reading Legal Events

A Ghost in the House of Justice: Death and the Language of the Law / Shoshana Felman 259

Lacan and Voting Rights / Anthony Paul Farley 304

“Into the Blue": The Image Written on Law / Alison Young 327

Contributors 353

Index 355

Über Autor(innen)

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. He is president of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities and past president of the Law & Society Association. He has written and edited many books, including When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition.Jonathan Simon is Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law. He is the author of Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass, 1890–1990 and coeditor of Embracing Risk: The Changing Culture of Insurance and Responsibility.