The limits of law
By: edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey.
Contributors: Sarat, Austin.; Douglas, Lawrence.; Umphrey, Martha Merrill.
Series: The Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Justice; Justice, Administration of -- Political aspects; Restorative justice
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: At the limits of law / Lawrence Douglas, Austin Sarat, and Martha Merrill Umphrey; title: Terrorism and the limits of law : a view from transitional justice / Laura Dickinson; title: Legalism and its discontents : the case of reparations for Black Americans / John Torpey; title: The dilemma of legality and the moral limits of law / David Dyzenhaus; title: The conditions of surrender : reconstituting the limits at conflict's end / Robin Wagner-Pacifici; title: Bound by law? : alien rights, administrative discretion, and the politics of technicality : lessons from Louis Post and the first red scare / Bonnie Honig; title: At the mercy of / Adam Sitze.