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By Thomas R. Kearns (editor) and Austin Sarat (editor)

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9780472111923 | Univ of Michigan Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $50.00

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9780472089031 | Reprint edition (Univ of Michigan Pr, July 31, 2002), cover price $25.95

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The essays in this book examine law as an active participant in the process through which history is written and memory is constructed. Instead of seeing law as a "victim" of history, the writers treat law as an author of history, not just in the instrumental sense in which law can be said to make a difference in society, but in the ways that law constructs and uses history.Law looks to the past as it speaks to present needs. In the production of judicial opinions--supposedly definitive statements of what the law is--judges reconstruct law's past, tracing out lines of legal precedent that arguably "compel" their decisions. These essays consider how law treats history, how history appears in legal decisions, and how the authority of history is used to authorize legal decisions.Furthermore, law plays a role in the construction of memory. The writers here ask how law remembers and records the past as well as how it helps us to remember our past. Law in the modern era is one of the most important of our society's technologies for preserving memory. In helping to construct our memory in certain ways law participates in the writing of our collective history. It 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, the sites of remembrance that law provides, the battles against forgetting that are fought in and around those sites, and the resultant role law plays in constructing history. The writers also inquire about the way history is mobilized in legal decision making, the rhetorical techniques for marshalling and for overcoming precedent, and the different histories that are written in and through the legal process.The contributors are Joan Dayan, Soshana Felman, Dominic La Capra, Reva Siegel, Brook Thomas, and G. Edward White.Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College. He is past President of the Law and Society Association and current President of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. Thomas R. Kearns is William H. Hastie Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College. (view table of contents)
By Thomas R. Kearns (editor) and Austin Sarat (editor)

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9780472110452 | Univ of Michigan Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The essays in this book examine law as an active participant in the process through which history is written and memory is constructed.

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9780472088997 | Reprint edition (Univ of Michigan Pr, November 1, 2002), cover price $33.50

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Product Description: We are witnessing in the last decade of the twentieth century more frequent demands by racial and ethnic groups for recognition of their distinctive histories and traditions as well as opportunities to develop and maintain the institutional infrastructure necessary to preserve them...read more
By Thomas R. Kearns (editor) and Austin Sarat (editor)

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9780472109111 | Univ of Michigan Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: We are witnessing in the last decade of the twentieth century more frequent demands by racial and ethnic groups for recognition of their distinctive histories and traditions as well as opportunities to develop and maintain the institutional infrastructure necessary to preserve them.

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9780472088515 | Reprint edition (Univ of Michigan Pr, November 1, 2001), cover price $33.50 | About this edition: We are witnessing in the last decade of the twentieth century more frequent demands by racial and ethnic groups for recognition of their distinctive histories and traditions as well as opportunities to develop and maintain the institutional infrastructure necessary to preserve them.

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Product Description: The concept of culture is troublingly vague and, at the same time, hotly contested, and law's relations to culture are as complex, varied and disputed as the concept of culture itself. The concept of the traditional, unified, reified, civilizing idea of culture has come under attack...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Thomas R. Kearns (editor) and Austin Sarat (editor)

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9780472108626 | Univ of Michigan Pr, June 1, 1998, cover price $57.50 | About this edition: The concept of culture is troublingly vague and, at the same time, hotly contested, and law's relations to culture are as complex, varied and disputed as the concept of culture itself.

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9780472087013 | Univ of Michigan Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: The concept of culture is troublingly vague and, at the same time, hotly contested, and law's relations to culture are as complex, varied and disputed as the concept of culture itself.

By Thomas R. Kearns (editor) and Austin Sarat (editor)

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9780472096251 | Univ of Michigan Pr, August 1, 1996, cover price $55.00

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9780472066254 | Univ of Michigan Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $30.95

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Product Description: The idea of legal rights today enjoys virtually universal appeal, yet all too often the meaning and significance of rights are poorly understood. The purpose of this volume is to clarify the subject of legal rights by drawing on both historical and philosophical legal scholarship to bridge the gap between these two genres--a gap that has divorced abstract and normative treatments of rights from an understanding of their particular social and cultural contexts...read more
By Thomas R. Kearns (editor) and Austin Sarat (editor)

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9780472084715 | Reprint edition (Univ of Michigan Pr, August 1, 1997), cover price $36.00 | About this edition: The idea of legal rights today enjoys virtually universal appeal, yet all too often the meaning and significance of rights are poorly understood.

By Thomas R. Kearns (editor) and Austin Sarat (editor)

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9780472084739 | Univ of Michigan Pr, August 1, 1997, cover price $43.50

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Product Description: The idea of legal rights today enjoys virtually universal appeal, yet all too often the meaning and significance of rights are poorly understood. The purpose of this volume is to clarify the subject of legal rights by drawing on both historical and philosophical legal scholarship to bridge the gap between these two genres--a gap that has divorced abstract and normative treatments of rights from an understanding of their particular social and cultural contexts...read more
By Thomas R. Kearns (editor) and Austin Sarat (editor)

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9780472106332 | Univ of Michigan Pr, March 1, 1996, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: The idea of legal rights today enjoys virtually universal appeal, yet all too often the meaning and significance of rights are poorly understood.

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Product Description: Law is a profession of words. Simultaneously celebratory of great prose and dogmatically insistent on precise usage, law is a stage for verbal virtuosity, linguistic mastery, and persuasive argument. Yet the linguistic display is not without substance: the words of law take on a seriousness virtually unparalleled in any other domain of human experience...read more
By Thomas R. Kearns (editor) and Austin Sarat (editor)

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9780472083862 | Reprint edition (Univ of Michigan Pr, February 1, 1996), cover price $43.50 | About this edition: Law is a profession of words.

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Product Description: The subject of rights occupies a central place in liberal political thought. This tradition posits that rights are entitlements of individuals by virtue of their personhood and that rights stand apart from politics, that rights in fact hold at bay intrusions of state policy...read more
By Thomas R. Kearns (editor) and Austin Sarat (editor)

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9780472106325 | Univ of Michigan Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: The subject of rights occupies a central place in liberal political thought.

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Product Description: "Sarat and Kearns . . . have edited a truly marvelous work on the impact of the law on daily life and vice versa. . . . the essays are all exemplary, thought- provoking works worthy of a long, contemplative read by scholars, lawyers, and judges alike...read more

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9780472083459 | Reprint edition (Univ of Michigan Pr, September 1, 1995), cover price $38.50 | About this edition: "Sarat and Kearns .

"In bringing together accomplished and thoughtful scholars of different disciplines, with a command of literature ranging from the legal to the literary, and in relating the works to the central arguments of the late Professor Robert Cover, Sarat and Kearns have created a first-rate up-to-date exposition of this important and complicated issue, namely, how to understand better the violence implicit and explicit in law."--Legal Studies ForumThe relationship between law and violence is made familiar to us in vivid pictures of police beating suspects, the large and growing prison population, and the tenacious attachment to capital punishment in the United States. Yet the link between law and violence and the ways that law manages to impose pain and death while remaining aloof and unstained are an unexplored mystery. Each 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.Each author draws on a distinctive disciplinary tradition-- literature, history, anthropology, philosophy, political science, or law. Yet each reminds us that law, constituted in response to the metaphorical violence of the state of nature, is itself a doer of literal violence.Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and Chair of the Program in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College. Thomas R. Kearns is William H. Hastie Professor of Philosophy, Amherst College.

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9780472103904 | Univ of Michigan Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: "In bringing together accomplished and thoughtful scholars of different disciplines, with a command of literature ranging from the legal to the literary, and in relating the works to the central arguments of the late Professor Robert Cover, Sarat and Kearns have created a first-rate up-to-date exposition of this important and complicated issue, namely, how to understand better the violence implicit and explicit in law.

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9780472083176 | Reprint edition (Univ of Michigan Pr, May 1, 1995), cover price $30.95

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Product Description: "Sarat and Kearns . . . have edited a truly marvelous work on the impact of the law on daily life and vice versa. . . . the essays are all exemplary, thought- provoking works worthy of a long, contemplative read by scholars, lawyers, and judges alike...read more
By Thomas R. Kearns (editor) and Austin Sarat (editor)

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9780472104413 | Univ of Michigan Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: "Sarat and Kearns .

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Product Description: Assesses the impact of intellectual and political movements of the late twentieth century on law and legal theory

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9780472102440 | Univ of Michigan Pr, May 1, 1991, cover price $54.50 | About this edition: Assesses the impact of intellectual and political movements of the late twentieth century on law and legal theory

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9780472082391 | Reprint edition (Univ of Michigan Pr, August 1, 1993), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Assesses the impact of intellectual and political movements of the late twentieth century on law and legal theory

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