Studies in law, politics and society. Vol. 38 /

This volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" presents a diverse array of articles by an interdisciplinary group of scholars. Their work covers several social science disciplines as well as law. Some of the articles published in this issue examine the interactions of law and "...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sarat, Austin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2006.
Temas:
Sociological jurisprudence.
Political sociology.
Sociologie juridique.
Sociologie politique.
Law & society.
Law > General.
Political sociology
Sociological jurisprudence
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Editorial board
  • Part I: Legal Acts and "Vulnerable" Populations
  • "Different Approaches Need to be Taken in Different Settings"
  • Situating Activist Prison Lawyering: The Struggle for HIV-Positive Prisoner's Rights
  • The Nexus of Prisoner Health and Prisoner Rights
  • Situating Activist Prison Lawyering
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Scapegoating the Vulnerable: Preventive Detention of Immigrants in America's "War on Terror"
  • Deprivations of Liberty ...
  • ... Without Due Process of Law
  • Conditions of Detention
  • Administrative Detention in the U.S. and Israel
  • The Purposes and Price of Scapegoating
  • Notes
  • References
  • Sanctuary Discourse, Powers, and Legal Narratives
  • Introduction
  • Sanctuary in the Canadian Context
  • Sanctuary as Pastoral and Non-State Sovereign Power
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Government Documents
  • Print Media
  • Beyond Stork Delivery: From Injury to Autonomy in Reconceptualising 'Harm' in Wrongful Pregnancy
  • Introduction
  • Natural Born Reproducers?
  • Wrongful Pregnancy as a ''Personal Injury''?
  • The Growth of Tort & the Stretching of Harm?
  • Characterising Harm: Just All Too Cartesian?
  • A Conceptual Metamorphosis or an Affective Judgment of "Harm"?
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Cases Cited
  • Part II: Law and Indigenous Groups
  • A Legal Trauma, a Public Trauma: Lindy Chamberlain and the Chamberlain Case
  • Introduction
  • Publicness
  • A Public Trauma
  • A Legal Trauma
  • Traumatic Permutations
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Intangibles, Appropriation, and Intellectual Property Law: The Problem(s) With Copyright for Native American Oral Traditions
  • Intangibles and IP
  • Justifications for Protection: Obliteration and Appropriation
  • The Function of Oral Forms in Native American Communities
  • Tribal Control of Oral Traditions
  • Problems with Protecting Oral Forms
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Last Page.

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