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This book explores the ways law both traffics in and regulates secrecy. Taking a close look at the opacity built into legal and governance processes, it explores the ways law produces zones of secrecy, the relation between secrecy and justice, and how we understand the inscrutability of law's p...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Sarat, Austin (Editor), Douglas, Lawrence (Editor), Umphrey, Martha Merrill (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford Law Books, [2012]
Series:Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought.
Subjects:
Law and secrecy.
Law in literature.
Secrecy in literature.
Droit et secret.
Droit dans la littérature.
Secret dans la littérature.
LAW > Essays.
LAW > General Practice.
LAW > Jurisprudence.
LAW > Paralegals & Paralegalism.
LAW > Practical Guides.
LAW > Reference.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Transparency and opacity in law : an introduction / Martha Merrill Umphrey, Austin Sarat, and Lawrence Douglas
  • Open secrets and dirty hands / Alasdair Roberts
  • Secret trials and public justice / Lindsay Farmer
  • Spousal secrets : same-sex couples and the functional approach to spousal evidentiary privileges / Edward Stein
  • Wilkie Collins' law books : law, literature, and factual precedent / Bernadette Meyler
  • Historiographic secrets of the labour contract : the law and literature of Lewis Jones' "Cwmardy" and "We live" / Melanie L. Williams
  • Duly noted or off the record? : Sovereignty and the secrecy of the law in cinema / Richard Burt.

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