Studies in law, politics, and society. Vol. 61 / edited by Austin Sarat.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sarat, Austin.

Series:

Studies in law, politics, and society.

Studies in law, politics, and society, 1059-4337

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociological jurisprudence.

Political sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, United Kingdom : Emerald, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume of Studies in law, politics and society brings together an international spread of legal scholars, presenting a varied collection of chapters. Chapters include: child abduction during the military dictatorship in Argentina; a novel approach to empirical research on legal framing from the University of California, Berkeley; the role of silence in law and film from Israel; a chapter from Sweden on the use of video in the court of appeal; and finally two chapters on the supreme court in the USA, one looking at influences through social capital on supreme court decision makers and the second looking at the self-perception and public perception of the supreme court.

Contents:

Redefining the abduction of children : legal truth in post-dictatorial Argentine courts of law/ Natacha V. Osenda

Legal framing / Gwendolyn Leachman

The silent defendant : some thoughts on law and film / Yofi Tirosh

A modern trial : a study of the use of video-recorded testimonies in the swedish Court of appeal / Leif Dahlberg

"Its the network" : the federalist society as a supplier of intellectual capital for the supreme court / Amanda Hollis-Brusky

The supreme court : an autobiography / Keith J. Bybee, Angela G. Narasimhan.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

1-78190-620-3

OCLC:

845044575