The secrets of law / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sarat, Austin.

Douglas, Lawrence.

Umphrey, Martha Merrill.

Series:

Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought.

The Amherst series in law, jursiprudence, and social thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law and secrecy.

Law in literature.

Secrecy in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Secrets of Law explores the ways law both traffics in and regulates secrecy. Taking a close look at the opacity built into legal and governance processes, it explores the ways law produces zones of secrecy, the relation between secrecy and justice, and how we understand the inscrutability of law's processes.The first half of the work examines the role of secrecy in contemporary political and legal practices-including the question of transparency in democratic processes during the Bush Administration, the principle of public justice in England's response to the war on te

Contents:

Transparency and opacity in law : an introduction / Martha Merrill Umphrey, Austin Sarat and Lawrence Douglas

Open secrets and dirty hands / Alasdair Roberts

Secret trials and public justice / Lindsay Farmer

Spousal secrets : same-sex couples and the functional approach to marital evidentiary privileges / Edward Stein

Wilkie Collins' law books : law, literature, and factual precedent / Bernadette Meyler

Historiographic secrets of the labour contract : the law and literature of Lewis Jones' "Cwmardy" and "We live" / Melanie Williams

Duly noted or off the record? : sovereignty and the secrecy of the law in cinema / Richard Burt.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804783903

080478390X

OCLC:

819635334