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Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places : Justice Beyond and Between / Marianne Constable, Bryan Wagner, Leti Volpp.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Berkeley forum in the humanities.
- Fordham scholarship online.
- Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--Social aspects--United States.
- Law.
- Law and literature.
- Sociological jurisprudence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- For many inside and outside the legal academy, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This book looks for law in the “wrong places”—sites and spaces in which no formal law appears. These may be geographic regions beyond the reach of law, everyday practices ungoverned or ungovernable by law, or works of art that have escaped law’s constraints. Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places brings together essays by leading scholars of anthropology, cultural studies, history, law, literature, political science, race and ethnic studies, religion, and rhetoric, to look at law from the standpoint of the humanities. Beyond showing law to be determined by or determinative of distinct cultural phenomena, the contributors show how law is itself interwoven with language, text, image, and culture. Many essays in this volume look for law precisely in the kinds of “wrong places” where there appears to be no law. They find in these places not only reflections and remains of law, but also rules and practices that seem indistinguishable from law and raise challenging questions about the locations of law and about law’s meaning and function. Other essays do the opposite: rather than looking for law in places where law does not obviously appear, they look in statute books and courtrooms from perspectives that are usually presumed to have nothing to say about law. Looking at law sideways, or upside down, or inside out defamiliarizes law. These essays show what legal understanding can gain when law is denied its ostensibly proper domain. Contributors: Kathryn Abrams, Daniel Boyarin, Wendy Brown, Marianne Constable, Samera Esmeir, Daniel Fisher, Sara Ludin, Saba Mahmood, Rebecca McLennan, Ramona Naddaff, Beth Piatote, Sarah Song, Christopher Tomlins, Leti Volpp, Bryan Wagner
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Wild Life of Law: Domesticating Nature in the Bering Sea, c. 1893
- 2. Before Emptiness: On the Destructiveness and Impotence of Law
- 3. Spun Dry: Mobility and Jurisdiction in Northern Australia
- 4. Signs of Authority in Indian Country
- 5. Signs of Law
- 6. After Obergefell: On Marriage and Belonging in Carson McCullers’s Member of the Wedding
- 7. Secularism, Family Law, and Gender Inequality
- 8. When Persons Become Firms and Firms Become Persons: Neoliberal Jurisprudence and Evangelical Christianity in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
- 9. Is There Jewish Law? The Case of Josephus
- 10. The Protestant Power of Attorney of 1531: A Legalistic History of the Early Reformation in Germany
- 11. Looking for Law in The Confessions of Nat Turner
- 12. A Vigil at the End of the World
- 13. Invention and Process in Bilski
- 14. “Erudite Curiosity”: The Trial of Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Publisher of the Complete Works of the Marquis de Sade, Paris 1958
- 15. The Trial of Romeo Rosebud
- List of Contributors
- Index
- 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.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-8616-9
- 0-8232-8372-0
- 0-8232-8373-9
- OCLC:
- 1083100331
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