Law, violence, and the possibility of justice / edited by Austin Sarat.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sarat, Austin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Violence (Law).

Justice.

Physical Description:

181 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2001]

Summary:

"This volume performs an important function. It is an extremely worthwhile and timely project that raises issues of grave concern to anyone interested in the realities of legal practice, including sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers, political scientists, legal theorists, and practicing lawyers."--Eve Darian-Smith, University of California, Santa Barbara

"These elegant critical reflections on violence and law--mostly in the United States--focus on the paradoxes of violence as an object and means of the law's control, as well as place of violence among the conditions and complications of law's legitimacy and efficacy. The collection is compelling, even haunting, and profoundly enriching. The volume illuminates contemporary debates about law's violence, and makes engaging reading for academics in law and the human sciences, as well as others interested in the future of law as a social endeavor."--Carol Greenhouse, Indiana University

Contents:

Chapter 1 Situating Law Between the Realities of Violence and the Claims of Justice: An Introduction / Austin Sarat 3

Chapter 2 The Vicissitudes of Law's Violence / Jonathan Simon 17

Chapter 3 Making Peace with Violence: Robert Cover on Law and Legal Theory / Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns 49

Chapter 4 The Silence of the Law: Justice in Cover's "Field of Pain and Death" / Marianne Constable 85

Chapter 5 A Judgment Dwelling in Law: Violence and the Relations of Legal Thought / Shaun McVeigh, Peter Rush, Alison Young 101

Chapter 6 Why the Law Is Also Nonviolent / Peter Fitzpatrick 142.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0691048444

0691048452

OCLC:

46884170