Looking back at law's century / edited by Austin Sarat, Bryant Garth, Robert A. Kagan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sarat, Austin, editor.

Garth, Bryant G., editor.

Kagan, Robert A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--United States--History--20th century--Congresses.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (446 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York ; London : Cornell University Press, [2002]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book describes a century of tremendous legal change, of inspiring legal developments, and profound failures. The twentieth century took the United States from the Progressive Era's optimism about law and social engineering to current concerns about a hyperlegalistic society, from philosophical idealism to the implementation of democracy, the rule of law, and the idea of human rights throughout the world. At the same time, law maintained its status as the key language of governance in the United States, the most "legal" of all countries, which has succeeded in making its version of the state a point of reference around the globe.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Contributors

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY / Kagan, Robert A. / Garth, Bryant / Sarat, Austin

PART I Citizenship, Rights, and Politics

The Idea of Political Freedom / Fiss, Owen

Instituting Universal Human Rights Law: THE INVENTION OF TRADITION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY / Minow, Martha

Racial Justice: MORAL OR POLITICAL? / Thomas, Kendall

PART II. Law and the Constitution of Selves and Society

Visions of Self-Control: FASHIONING A LIBERAL APPROACH TO CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY / Simon, Jonathan

Twentieth-Century Legal Metaphors for Self and Society / Binder, Guyora

Citizenship, Agency, and the Dream of Time / Greenhouse, Carol J.

PART III. Regulatory Processes in Society and Economy

The Rhetoric of Community: CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE LEGAL ORDER / Constable, Marianne

Law and the Corporation / Keller, Morton

The Legal Origins of the Modern American State / Novak, William J.

PART IV. Law, Lawyers, and the Marketing of Law

The Legal Profession / Gordon, Robert W.

Professing Law: ELITE LAW SCHOOL PROFESSORS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY / Kalman, Laura

The Twentieth-Century Discipline of International Law in the United States / Kennedy, David

Index

Notes:

Atti di un convegno tenuto nel 1999.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5017-1842-8

OCLC:

1083591002