Description: Further DetailsTitle: Law's InfamyCondition: NewSubtitle: Understanding the Canon of Bad LawISBN-10: 1479812099EAN: 9781479812097ISBN: 9781479812097Publisher: New York University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 12/21/2021Description: An analysis of how problematic laws ought to be framed and consideredFrom the murder of George Floyd to the systematic dismantling of voting rights, our laws and their implementation are actively shaping the course of our nation. But however abhorrent a legal decision might be—whether Dred Scott v. Sanford or Plessy v. Ferguson—the stories we tell of the law’s failures refer to their injustice and rarely label them in the language of infamy. Yet in many instances, infamy is part of the story law tells about citizens’ conduct. Such stories of individual infamy work on both the social and legal level to stigmatize and ostracize people, to mark them as unredeemably other. Law’s Infamy seeks to alter that course by making legal actions and decisions the subject of an inquiry about infamy. Taken together, the essays demonstrate how legal institutions themselves engage in infamous actions and urge that scholars and activists label them as such, highlighting the damage done when law itself acts infamously and focus of infamous decisions that are worthy of repudiation. Law's Infamy asks when and why the word infamy should be used to characterize legal decisions or actions. This is a much-needed addition to the broader conversation and questions surrounding law’s complicity in evil.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmContributor: Lawrence Douglas (Edited by), Austin Sarat (Edited by), Martha M. Umphrey (Edited by)Genre: Law & PoliticsItem Weight: 422gAuthor: Lawrence DouglasRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Law's Infamy
Title: Law's Infamy
Subtitle: Understanding the Canon of Bad Law
ISBN-10: 1479812099
EAN: 9781479812097
ISBN: 9781479812097
Release Date: 12/21/2021
Release Year: 2021
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Martha M. Umphrey (Edited by)
Genre: Law & Politics
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: Law's Infamy : Understanding the Canon of Bad Law
Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: General, Legal History, Essays
Item Weight: 14.9 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Lawrence Douglas
Subject Area: Law
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 7.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
