Looking for law in all the wrong places : justice beyond and between / Marianne Constable, Leti Volpp, and Bryan Wagner, editors ; Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California, Berkeley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Constable, Marianne, editor.

Volpp, Leti, editor.

Wagner, Bryan, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Berkeley forum in the humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Social aspects--United States.

Law.

Law and literature.

Sociological jurisprudence.

Law--Social aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

polychrome

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, [2019]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction / Marianne Constable, Leti Volpp, and Bryan Wagner

The wild life of law : domesticating nature in the Bering Sea, c. 1893 / Rebecca M. McLennan

Before emptiness : on the destructiveness and impotence of law / Samera Esmeir

Spun dry : mobility and jurisdiction in northern Australia / Daniel Fisher

Signs of authority in Indian country / Beth H. Piatote

Signs of law / Leti Volpp

After Obergefell : on marriage and belonging in Carson McCullers's Member of the wedding / Sarah Song

Secularism, family law, and gender inequality / Saba Mahmood

When persons become firms and firms become persons : neoliberal jurisprudence and evangelical Christianity in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. / Wendy Brown

Is there Jewish law? : the case of Josephus / Daniel Boyarin

The protestant power of attorney of 1531 : a legalistic history of the early reformation in Germany / Sara Ludin

Looking for law in the confessions of Nat Turner / Christopher Tomlins

A vigil at the end of the world / Kathryn Abrams

Invention and process in Bilski / Marianne Constable

"Erudite curiosity" : the trial of Jean-Jacques Pauvert, publisher of the complete works of the Marquis de Sade, Paris 1958 / Ramona Naddaff

The trial of Romeo Rosebud / Bryan Wagner.

Notes:

"The volume itself grew out of the Strategic Working Group on Law and the Humanities, which was funded by a Mellon Grant under the auspices of the Townsend Center for the Humanities, for which we are grateful."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 28, 2019).

ISBN:

9780823283736

0823283739

Publisher Number:

40028876160

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.