Lives in the law
By: edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey.
Contributors: Douglas, Lawrence.; Sarat, Austin.; Umphrey, Martha Merrill.
Series: Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Sociological jurisprudence.; Law -- Social aspects -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Theoretical perspectives on lives in the law : an introduction / Lawrence Douglas, Austin Sarat, and Martha Merrill Umphrey; value: The Chicago conspiracy trial as a Jewish morality tale / Pnina Lahav; value: Law and everyday death : infanticide and the backlash against woman's rights after the Civil War / Sarah Barringer Gordon; value: Dependency by law : welfare and identity in the lives of poor women / Frank Munger; value: Labor's subjects / Vicki Schultz; value: France and trials for crimes against humanity / Annette Wieviorka.