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History, memory, and the law /

Annotation 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...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Sarat, Austin, Kearns, Thomas R.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2002.
Édition:1st pbk. ed.
Collection:Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought.
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Table des matières:
  • Writing history and registering memory in legal decisions and legal practices : an introduction / Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns
  • Forms of judicial blindness : traumatic narratives and legal repetitions / Shoshana Felman
  • Memory, law, and literature : the cases of Flaubert and Baudelaire / Dominick Lacapra
  • Collective memory and the nineteenth amendment : reasoning about "The women question" in the discourse of sex discrimination / Reva B. Siegel
  • Held in the body of the state : prisons and the law / Joan Dayan
  • Stigmas, badges, and brands : discriminating marks in legal history / Brook Thomas
  • Analogical reasoning and historical change in law : the regulation of film and radio speech / G. Edward White.