Dissenting voices in American society : the role of judges, lawyers, and citizens / edited by Austin Sarat.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sarat, Austin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dissenting opinions--United States--Congresses.

Dissenting opinions.

Judicial opinions--United States--Congresses.

Judicial opinions.

Dissenters--Legal status, laws, etc--United States--Congresses.

Dissenters.

Dissenters--Legal status, laws, etc.

United States.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 237 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Dissenting Voices in American Society: The Role of Judges, Lawyers, and Citizens explores the status of dissent in the work and lives of judges, lawyers, and citizens, and in our institutions and culture. It brings together under the lens of critical examination dissenting voices that are usually treated separately: the protester, the academic critic, the intellectual, and the dissenting judge. It examines the forms of dissent that institutions make possible and those that are discouraged or domesticated. This book also describes the kinds of stories that dissenting voices try to tell and the narrative tropes on which those stories depend. This book is the product of an integrated series of symposia at the University of Alabama School of Law. These symposia bring leading scholars into colloquy with faculty at the law school on subjects at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary inquiry in law.

Contents:

Dissent and the American story: an introduction / Austin Sarat

ch. 1. The ethics of an alternative : counterfactuals and the tone of dissent / Ravit Reichman

Comment on chapter 1. The role of counterfactual imagination in the legal system : misplaced judgment or inevitable dissent? / Suzette M. Malveaux

ch. 2. American animus : dissent and disapproval in Bowers volume Hardwick, Romer volume Evans, and Lawrence volume Texas / Susanna Lee

Comment on chapter 2. Animus-supported argument vs. animus-supported standing / Heather Elliott

ch. 3. Dissent and authenticity in the history of American racial politics / Kenneth W. Mack

Comment on chapter 3. Dissenters as dissidents : Charles Hamilton Houston and Loren Miller / Tony A. Freyer

ch. 4. The legal academy and the temptations of power : the difficulty of dissent / Richard H. Pildes

Comment on chapter 4. Why dissent isn't free : a commentary on Pildes' "The legal academy and the temptations of power" / Bryan K. Fair

ch. 5. Why societies don't need dissent (as such) / Mark Tushnet

Comment on chapter 5. Questioning the value of dissent and free speech more generally : American skepticism of government and the protection of low-value speech / Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr.

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ISBN:

9781139013635

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