Material law
Subtitle: a jurisprudence of what's real
By: John Brigham.
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781592139644
Subjects: Law -- United States; Law -- Philosophy
Description: "Theoretically sophisticated, and consistently fascinating, Material Law integrates law and society, political science, and popular culture in a truly interdisciplinary fasion. Brigham examines how the meaning of law is influenced by politics, reviewing, for example, whether the authority of global law supersedes that of national law in the context of Anglo-American cultural colonialism. What emerges is a well-reasoned look at how the authority of law constitutes what we see as real in our lives"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The map and the territory; title: The public in the womb; title: Habeas corpus at the temple; title: Law's neighborhoods; title: De facto discrimination; title: Occupied territories; title: Law buildings; title: Commodity form as law; title: Global legal constructs.