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Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death ...
Austin SaratAustin Sarat's book instantly became an essential resource for citizens, scholars, and lawmakers interested in capital punishment—even the Supreme Court, which cited the book in its recent opinion, Glossip v. Gross.
When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American ...
Austin Sarat"Of all the books which I have read on the death penalty--and that number is considerable--Sarat's probing analysis in these pages is among the best. I turned to some of Sarat's research when I wrote "Dead Man Walking.
Mercy on Trial: What It Means to Stop an Execution
Austin SaratIn this compelling and timely work, Austin Sarat provides the first book-length work on executive clemency. He turns our focus from questions of guilt and innocence to the very meaning of mercy.
Special Issue Interdisciplinary Legal Studies: The Next ...
Austin SaratThe Next Generation Austin Sarat ... frying, and table spreads.5 New York City restaurant inspectors reported 99% compliance with the fry oil and spread restriction by June 2008; and 92% compliance within six months of the restrictions taking ...
Law's Madness
Austin SaratMerrill. Umphrey,. Austin. Sarat,. and. Lawrence. Douglas. Why conjoin the categories of law and madness? After all, in principle legal institutions work hard to keep these two notoriously slippery terms separate. As a normative matter we posit ...
Law and the Humanities: An Introduction
Austin Sarat54 Richard K. Sherwin, “What Screen Do You Have in Mind?” Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Austin Sarat, ed. (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2008); Richard K. Sherwin, “Law, Metaphysics, and the New Iconoclasm,” Law Text Culture Vol.
Law in the Liberal Arts
Austin SaratAn ideal approach to legal education, in Austin Sarat's view, would open up law and legal knowledge by making them the proper objects of inquiry in the liberal arts.
Law and the Utopian Imagination
Austin SaratThis is a project of exploration and resuscitation of idea of utopianism within legal discourse.
The Rhetoric of Law
Austin SaratAn interdisciplinary critique of the relationship between words and the law
When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice
Austin SaratAre there ways of reconceptualizing legal missteps that are particularly useful or illuminating? These instructive essays both address the questions and point the way toward further discussion.
Merciful Judgments and Contemporary Society: Legal Problems, ...
Austin SaratThis book is a product of the University of Alabama School of Law symposia series on 'Law, Knowledge and Imagination'.
The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make: Structure and Agency in Legal ...
Austin SaratThe essays in this volume represent a wide variety of cause lawyering settings, in terms of political orientation, nationality, and structure of practice.
Law's Violence
Austin SaratEach essay in this volume considers the question of how violence done by and in the name of the law differs from illegal or extralegal violence--or, indeed, if they differ at all.
Lives in the Law
PreviewAustin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Umphrey. the Vaughn campaign revealed the "injustices [she] suffered" and marked a significant success for the Working Woman's Association and the suffragists who led it.63 Attention to a wider ...
Public Bills
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Punishment in Popular Culture
Austin SaratAlthough death penalty films portray fictional executions, Richard Rushton contends that films position viewers in a variety of ways to offer us a new understanding of reality. Films do so because they “make available concepts, feelings, and ...
Law and Literature Reconsidered
Austin SaratWhat, if any, new paradigms of literary study of legal phenomena are on the horizon?This is a contemporary study of law and literature. It includes contributions by an international group of leading scholars.
The Place of Law
PreviewAustin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Umphrey. The. Empty. Place: Legal. Formalities. and. the. Cultural. State. Annelise. Riles. This essay concerns the uses of technical legal rules concerning property ownership in creating what I call an ...
Love is a Sweet Chain: Desire, Autonomy and Friendship in ...
James MartelI want to thank several members of the Amherst College faculty: Austin Sarat, Thomas Dumm, Pavel Machala, and my good friend Javier Corrales, as well as Alec Irwin, Martha Umphtey, Barry O'Connell, and Janet Gyatso. Thanks to Joyce ...
History, Memory, and the Law
Austin SaratIt plays a crucial role in knitting together our past, present, and future.The essays in this volume present grounded examinations of particular problems, places, and practices and address the ways in which memory works in and through law, ...
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
Austin SaratSpangenberg Group. (2002a). 50 state and county expenditures for indigent defense services, FY 2002. Available at: http://www.sado.org/publicdefense/ 2002_all_spangenberg.pdf (accessed 12/2005). Spangenberg Group. (2002b). Rates of ...
Law as Punishment / Law as Regulation
Austin SaratThis book considers the problem of law's physical control of persons and it illuminates competing visions of the law: as both a tool of regulation and as an instrument of coercion or punishment.
Performances of violence
Austin SaratAndrew Stuart Bergerson, Ordinary Germans in Extraordinary Times ( Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004), 8. On the History of Everyday Life, see Paul Steege, Andrew Stuart Bergerson, Maureen Healy, and Pamela Swett, “ The ...
Special Issue: New Perspectives on Crime and Criminal Justice
Austin SaratSpangenberg Group. (2002a). 50 state and county expenditures for indigent defense services, FY 2002. Available at: http://www.sado.org/publicdefense/ 2002_all_spangenberg.pdf (accessed 12/2005). Spangenberg Group. (2002b). Rates of ...
Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law: Moving ...
Austin SaratRecently, Richard K. Sherwin's When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line between Law and Popular Culture128 has attempted a similar project. Sherwin argues (as I have earlier in this essay) against what he calls "skeptical postmodernism.
Cause Lawyers and Social Movements
Austin SaratAnd, how do movements shape the lawyers who serve them and how do lawyers shape the movements? This work examines the unique position of lawyers committed both to profession and to cause.
Everyday Practices and Trouble Cases
Austin SaratEveryday Practices and Trouble Cases asks how law helps to constitute the worlds in which we live every day, and how law responds to disruptions and disputes that arise in various realms.
Is the Death Penalty Dying?: European and American Perspectives
PreviewEuropean and American Perspectives Austin Sarat, Jürgen Martschukat. of the state were no longer as easily ... Clarendon Press, 1968), p. 71. 63 S. Margery Fry (ed), The Abolition of the Death Penalty in Holland andScandinavia, 2nd ed, ...
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
Austin SaratThis volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" brings together research on law's cultural life and on institutions and actors who translate interests, preferences, and values into legal policy.
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