Material law : a jurisprudence of what's real / John Brigham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brigham, John, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--United States.

Law.

Law--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Law is part of the process by which people construct their views of the world. In Material Law, distinguished scholar John Brigham focuses on the places where law and material life intersect, and how law creates and alters our social reality. Brigham looks at an eclectic group of bodies and things-from maps and territories and trends in courthouse architecture to a woman's womb and a judge's body-to make connections between the material and the legal. Theoretically sophisticated, and consistently fascinating, Material Law integrates law and society, politica

Contents:

The map and the territory

The public in the womb

Habeas corpus at the temple

Law's neighborhoods

De facto discrimination and the double standard

Occupied territories

Law buildings

Commodity form as law

Global legal constructs.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612284717

9781282284715

1282284711

9781592139668

1592139663

OCLC:

472419625