Law's madness
By: edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey.
Contributors: Sarat, Austin.; Douglas, Lawrence.; Umphrey, Martha Merrill.
Series: The Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Law -- Psychological aspects.; Insanity -- Jurisprudence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Madness and law : an introduction / Martha Merrill Umphrey, Austin Sarat, and Lawrence Douglas; title: Policing stories / Peter Brooks; title: Narrating nymphomania between psychiatry and the law / Elizabeth Lunbeck; title: "A situation so unique that it will probably never repeat itself" : madness, youth, and homicide in twentieth-century criminal jurisprudence / Jonathan Simon; title: The claims of the dead : history, haunted property, and the law / Cathy Caruth; title: Rethinking legal ideals after deconstruction / Drucilla Cornell.