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Lives in the Law.

The essays look at the consequences that legal practice has on the lives of its practitioners as well as on the individual legal subject and on the shape of shared identities. These essays challenge liberal and communitarian notions of what it means to live the law. In the first of the essays, Pnina...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sarat, Austin (Editor ), Douglas, Lawrence (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Michigan Press 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments; Contents; Theoretical Perspectives on Lives in the Law: An Introduction; The Chicago Conspiracy Trial as a Jewish Morality Tale; Law and Everyday Death: Infanticide and the Backlash against Woman's Rights after the Civil War; Dependency by Law: Welfare and Identity in the Lives of Poor Women; Labor's Subjects; France and Trials for Crimes against Humanity; Contributors; Index.