Law's Mistakes edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Umphrey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Umphrey, Martha Merrill, editor.

Douglas, Lawrence, editor.

Sarat, Austin, editor.

Series:

Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought.

Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judicial error--United States.

Judicial error.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2016]

Summary:

From false convictions to botched executions, from erroneous admission of evidence in a criminal trial to misunderstandings that arise in the process of creating contracts, law is awash in mistakes.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

The Legal Treatment of Mistakes: An Introduction

1. Mistaken Judgments

2. How Law Should Avoid Mistakes: Alexander Bickel's Modernist Jurisprudence of "Mood"

3. "Mistake" in American Criminal Law

4. The Ghosts in the "Machinery of Death": The Rhetoric of Mistake in Lethal Injection Reform

5. Mistaken for Consensus: Hung Juries, the Allen Charge, and the End of Jury Deliberation

6. Law's Mistakes, Legal Pluralism, and the Significance of Systemic Justice

About the Contributors

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-61376-381-6

OCLC:

963611403