History, memory, and the law
By: edited by Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns.
Contributors: Sarat, Austin.; Kearns, Thomas R.
Series: Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Law -- United States -- History.; Law -- Methodology.; Law and literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Writing history and registering memory in legal decisions and legal practices : an introduction / Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns; title: Forms of judicial blindness : traumatic narratives and legal repetitions / Shoshana Felman; title: Memory, law, and literature : the cases of Flaubert and Baudelaire / Dominick Lacapra; title: Collective memory and the nineteenth amendment : reasoning about "The women question" in the discourse of sex discrimination / Reva B. Siegel; title: Held in the body of the state : prisons and the law / Joan Dayan; title: Stigmas, badges, and brands : discriminating marks in legal history / Brook Thomas; title: Analogical reasoning and historical change in law : the regulation of film and radio speech / G. Edward White.