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Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Amherst College, Massachusetts and Justice Hugo L. Black Senior Faculty Scholar at the University of Alabama School of Law. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including the recent A World without Privacy (2014), Civility, Legality, and the Limits of Justice (2014), and Re-imagining To Kill a Mockingbird: Family, Community, and the Possibility of Equal Justice
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Téléchargez le livre :  The Death Penalty on the Ballot
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The Death Penalty on the Ballot

Austin Sarat


Cambridge University Press

2019-04-18

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Investigating the attitudes about capital punishment in contemporary America, this book poses the question: can ending the death penalty be done democratically? How is it that a liberal democracy like the United States shares the distinction of being...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Lives of Guns
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The Lives of Guns


Jonathan Obert , Andrew Poe , Austin Sarat


Guns have never been as prevalent in American culture as they are at this moment. Most contemporary conversations on guns either highlight the gun as just a tool used in mass killings or a right to be fiercely defended; eventually, whatever progress these debates foster...

Parution : 2018-09-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Human Rights and Legal Judgments
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Human Rights and Legal Judgments


Austin Sarat


Human rights can be defined as the basic fundamental rights inherent to all human beings in any society. How these rights are made available and protected in individual countries is an area of much study and debate. Focusing on the significance of human rights in...

Parution : 2017-10-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Final Judgments
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Final Judgments


Austin Sarat


Final Judgments: The Death Penalty in American Law and Culture explores the significance and meaning of finality in capital cases. Questions addressed in this book include: how are concerns about finality reflected in the motivations and behavior of participants in the...

Parution : 2017-06-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Rhetorical Processes and Legal Judgments
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Rhetorical Processes and Legal Judgments


Austin Sarat


Over the last several decades legal scholars have plumbed law's rhetorical life. Scholars have done so under various rubrics, with law and literature being among the most fruitful venues for the exploration of law's rhetoric and the way rhetoric shapes law. Today, new...

Parution : 2016-09-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Law and Lies
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Law and Lies


Austin Sarat


Law has a strangely complicated relationship to deception. Though it sometimes takes a hard line on behalf of truth - 'the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth' - competing values often cause law to look the other way. How and why is lying alternately...

Parution : 2015-07-20
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Télécharger le livre :  The Handbook of Law and Society
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The Handbook of Law and Society


Patricia Ewick , Austin Sarat


Bringing a timely synthesis to the field, The Handbook of Law and Society presents a comprehensive overview of key research findings, theoretical developments, and methodological controversies in the field of law and society. Provides illuminating insights into...

Parution : 2015-04-08
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Éditeur : Wiley-Blackwell
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Télécharger le livre :  The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society
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The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society


Austin Sarat


The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society is an authoritative study of the relationship between law and social interaction. Thirty-two original essays by an international group of expert scholars examine a wide range of critical questions. Authors represent various...

Parution : 2008-04-15
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Éditeur : Wiley-Blackwell
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Télécharger le livre :  The Killing State
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The Killing State


Austin Sarat


Over 7,000 people have been legally executed in the United States this century, and over 3,000 men and women now sit on death rows across the country awaiting the same fate. Since the Supreme Court temporarily halted capital punishment in 1972, the death penalty has...

Parution : 2001-05-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era
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Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era


Austin Sarat , Stuart Scheingold


This volume brings together contextually sensitive, cross-cultural, and comparative research that analyzes the ways in which cause lawyering is influencing, and being influenced by, the disaggregation of state power associated with democratization and globalization.

Parution : 2001-05-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Cause Lawyering
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Cause Lawyering


Austin Sarat , Stuart Scheingold


Why do some lawyers devote themselves to a given social movement or political cause? How are such deeds of individual commitment and personal belief justly executed, given the ideals of disinterested professional service to which lawyers are (in theory, at least)...

Parution : 1998-01-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Race, Law, and Culture
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Race, Law, and Culture


Austin Sarat


When it comes to race and racial issues these are strange times for all Americans. More than forty years after Brown v. Board of Education put an end to segregation of the races by law, current debates about affirmative action, multiculturalism, and racial hate speech...

Parution : 1997-03-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients
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Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients


William L. F. Felstiner , Austin Sarat


Each year more than 2 million Americans divorced, and most of them use a lawyer. In closed-door conversations between lawyers and their clients strategy is planned, tactics are devised, and the emotional climate of the divorce is established. Do lawyers contribute to...

Parution : 1995-08-03
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