Studies in law, politics, and society / edited by Austin Sarat.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sarat, Austin, editor.

Series:

Studies in law, politics, and society ; Volume 83.

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociological jurisprudence.

Political sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing, [2020]

Summary:

This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Societyexamines how law understands the past. Topics covered include the use of legal language to dehumanize slaves in the eighteenth century, the use of history by lawyers and judges to justify existing law or make changes to the law during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title Page

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Editorial Board

List of Contributors

Chapter 1-Lawyers and Judges Utilizing History: A Multifaceted Tool for the Profession, 1840-1960

Introduction

Romantic and Mythic History

Validating Histories at the Time of the Birth of Professional History

Exemplary History in the Era of Consensus History

The Dog that did not Bark in the Night

Conclusion

References

Chapter 2-Law and Laundry: White laundresses, Chinese laundrymen, and the origins of Muller v. Oregon

Muller v. Oregon

Labor Unions and Steam Laundries

The Grand Laundry

Help Wanted: Laundresses in Portland

Chinese Hand Laundries in Portland

Muller &amp

Yick Wo

Hans Curt Muller

Chapter 3-Mercy Redux: A Genealogy of Special Consideration of Indigenous Circumstances at Sentencing in Canada, from Indian Agents to Gladue and Ipeelee

Part One: Shifting Governance

The present

The history

The transfer

Part Two: Characterizing Circumstances

The conundrum

Part Three: Colonial Continuities

The structure

Colonial continuities

Chapter 4-Deportation in the Evolution of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

Yick Wo, the Rock Springs Massacre, and Rights of Personhood under Alienage Laws

Deportability and Its Impact on the Rights of Personhood, 1882-1903

Immigrant Employment, Union Organizing, and Deportability

Deportability and Its Widening Impact on Rights and Liberties

Court Cases

Chapter 5-"Negroes Goods and Merchandizes": Legal Language and the Dehumanization of Slaves in British Vice Admiralty Courts, 1700-1763

Law Adrift.

The Chattel Principle in an Age of Sail

Dom. Rex v. 3 Negro Men Slaves and the Language of Admiralty

Policing the Trade

African Mariners in Peril on the Sea

Note on Methodology

References.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-83982-296-1

OCLC:

1153845937