Law, Culture and the Humanities recent issues

Editorial

Sarat, A. — 2009-09-03

What is Law (Good) For? Tactical Maneuvers of the Legal War at Home

Delaney, D. — 2009-09-03

This commentary offers an analysis of some of the ways in which one war — the American War in Vietnam — and its legal context can be understood as mutually constitutive. The focus is on efforts of anti-war legal activists to use elements of legality to reconstitute that war and the effects these engagements had on transformatively re-constituting the cultural domain of the legal itself. After presenting a brief catalog of skirmishes and tactical maneuvers I conclude with the suggestion that this journal and the kinds of scholarship that finds expression here might be counted as part of the "legacy" of the legal war at home.

Species War: Law, Violence and Animals

Kochi, T. — 2009-09-03

The law of war contains a hidden foundation. This foundation is species war. In this paper I begin to develop the idea of species war and show how our modern conceptions of the laws of war contain within them the historical and contemporary operation of species war. In focussing upon how legal and moral decisions about "legitimate violence" are made with respect to judgements about the "value" of "life," I show how species war operates as a fundamental, but often forgotten category, of legal and political philosophy.

A Critical History of Cosmopolitanism

Leung, G. — 2009-09-03

This article excavates certain hidden and suppressed moments in the ancient and modern history of cosmopolitanism. In contradistinction to mainstream cosmopolitanism, which generally reduces the concept to a liberal politics of global pacification, an essential agonism between cosmos and polis that is further reflected in the aporetic relation between freedom and law will be revealed. Cosmopolitanism is not only a philosophy of perpetual peace, it is also, paradoxically, a call to perpetual provocation.

Having Your Porn and Condemning it Too: A Case Study of a "Kiddie Porn" Expose

Khan, U. — 2009-09-03

In 2005, the Toronto Police Department’s Sex Crime Unit embarked upon the unprecedented move to go public with forensic evidence related to an on-going child pornography investigation. This strategy provided the public with exceptional glimpses into the taboo arena of child pornography. In this article, I trace the media coverage of this investigation to highlight the rhetorical and aesthetic components that, I posit, are related to a pedophilic logic. My goal is to reveal the latent but omnipresent desire encoded in the media narratives to imagine children and childhood in sexualized contexts. In particular, my analysis maps the literary and photographic aspects of the coverage to highlight the "performative contradiction" of the texts; though the media articulated a one-dimensional story of outrage and condemnation, the rhetorical and pictorial aspects of the story produced meanings that undermined the purported censure of child sexualization.

"The play's the thing/Wherein I'll catch the conscience": The Legal Community Reads Hamlet

Boyd, R. — 2009-09-03

This article explores the response of the contemporary legal community to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a play that has garnered much attention from those who would investigate the complex intersections of law and literature. The particular focus of this article is the way legal scholars have interpreted Hamlet’s "problem," that is to say, his famous delay in carrying out acts of violent retribution at the behest of his murdered father’s ghost. Such scholarly speculations have much to tell us, for to consider the meaning of Hamlet’s delay is also to grapple with such critical issues as the relationship between private vengeance and the law and the ethical meaning of violence in any codified legal system. This article thus surveys several representative readings of the Hamlet’s "problem" in an effort to outline how the contemporary legal community has engaged the deepest legal and ethical questions residing at the center of Shakespeare’s play.

Book Review: Hegel's Laws: The Legitimacy of a Modern Legal Order: By William E. Conklin, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. 400 pp. $65.00 (Cloth). ISBN 10-0804750300

Bhandar, B. — 2009-09-03

Book Review: "Ruling the Agon." Review of "Law and Agonistic Politics": By Andrew Schaap, ed., Aldershot, UK, Ashgate, 2009. 242 pp. $99.95, {pound}52.25 (Cloth). ISBN 10-0754673146. ISBN 13-978-0754673149

Hirsch, A. K. — 2009-09-03

Book Review: Gender Violence: A Cultural Perspective: By Sally Engle Merry, Chichester, UK, Wiley-Blackwell: 2009. 211 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN 978-0-631-22359-7

Hua, J. — 2009-09-03

Book Review: The Image of Law: Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza: By Alexandre Lefebvre, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2008. 336 pp. $27.95 (paper). ISBN 10-0804759855

Moore, N. — 2009-09-03

Editorial

Sarat, A. — 2009-04-17

We Should Be Liberals (at least)

Passavant, P. A. — 2009-04-17

This paper addresses what it means to "critique" liberalism today. Liberalism has been subjected to critique from the left, and has endured such concerted attacks from the right, that virtually no national politician in the United States calls him or herself a "liberal." This commentary, using John Locke's as an exemplar of liberalism, discusses a tradition of critiques of liberalism that use the resources within liberalism to deepen liberalism's democratic potential. I argue that liberalism, thus understood, enables us to address the most pressing forms of economic and political tyranny in the United States today. Some contend that our future politics should aspire to something more than liberalism. In the meantime, though, let us not be anything less than liberals.

Liberalism in a Romantic State

Maya Stolzenberg, N. — 2009-04-17

This article explores the connections between liberalism and romanticism, and argues that there is a split within liberal thought between a rationalist conception of liberalism, which relies on traditional moral psychology, and romanticist versions of liberalism, which adopt the romantic critique of reason and attach a positive value to the supposedly "irrational" faculties of the human psyche, such as passion, emotion, and love. Attending to this split within liberal theory provides us with a deeper understanding of what motivates religious fundamentalism and the more general movement of "return to traditional values" in religious and socially conservative quarters. Fundamentalists and other socially and religiously conservative critics of liberalism perceive that the embrace of a romantic picture of human psychology, and the implementation of doctrines of individual freedom and choice in the realm of marital and sexual relations (in the realm of love) undermines the premises of traditional moral psychology, which insists that "the passions" be subordinated to the faculty of human reason. Paradoxically, religion (a religious conservatism in particular) appears in this face-off between romantic and rationalist conceptions of human psychology and freedom on the side of reason. Religious conservatives attack (romantic) liberalism precisely because they perceive liberalism to constitute an assault on reason and morality. Liberalism has responded to this conservative attack by entering even further into a romantic state, in particular, the romantic state of war. War, love, and religion are the three domains of human experience in which the contrast between romantic and rationalist conceptions of human psychology and freedom is sharpest. Liberalism at war, liberalism in love, and liberalism on faith are the subjects of this Commentary.

Come A Little Closer: Citizens, Law, and Identification

Kirkpatrick, J. — 2009-04-17

What should the relationship between citizens and the law in a liberal democracy look like? The idea that citizens should be associated with the laws that govern them is a cornerstone of democratic theory. Yet the specific nature of this relationship has varied widely in theory and practice. I examine one conceptualization of this relationship: the notion that democratic citizens should substantively identify with the law and see their preferences, will, or morality in it. This kind of civic identification with the law is suggested in Carl Schmitt's The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy. Schmitt's text points both to the seductive appeal of civic identification with the law and to its pernicious potential.

Liberal Cults, Suicide Bombers, and other Theological Dilemmas

Motha, S. — 2009-04-17

This essay explores how death becomes political for left liberals and Islamist suicide bombers. The general objective is to challenge the unexamined assumptions about politics and death that circulate in left liberal denunciations of violence apparently inspired by Islam. To this end the essay discusses a number of influential characterizations of the relationship between death and politics, Islam and legalism, and monotheism and authority. The horror and fascination with the figure of the suicide bomber reveals an unacknowledged affective bond that constitutes the muscular liberal left as a political formation. This relies on disavowing the sacrificial and theological underpinnings of political liberalism itself — ignoring the continuities between what is called the ``West'' and the theologico-political enterprises inspired by monotheism. Exploring the conditions of the muscular liberal turn in left politics, the article suggests that a political crisis has emerged in a globalized world made up of political communities and juridical orders that have been emptied of authority and certainty. This crisis of ``sense'' conditions the horror felt by the supposedly rational liberal in the face of Islamist terrorism. Will a deconstruction of monotheism help to recognize and address the crisis of value resulting from the decimation of modern emancipatory projects? The commentary concludes by discussing how the writings of Jean-Luc Nancy on monotheism offer liberal left thinkers insights for rethinking the crisis of value that results from the collapse of grand emancipatory enterprises and the fragmentation of political identities.

Shouting at the Hebrews: Imperial Liberalism v Liberal Pluralism and the Practice of Male Circumcision

Shweder, R. A. — 2009-04-17

The aim of this essay is to distinguish between two types of liberals: imperial liberals versus liberal pluralists. The two types I have in mind are those who assume that liberal ways of life are objectively more valuable than illiberal ways of life and should replace them (for the sake of making the world a better place), and those (such as myself) who don't make that universalizing assumption and believe instead that you can't live by liberalism alone. As a thought experiment I am going to examine the proposed distinction with regard to one small aspect of family life, albeit one that affects 20—30 percent of all males in the world in a very intimate way, namely the practice of male circumcision. This is a practice which at least in some of its varieties (for example, Jewish neonatal circumcision) and in the eyes of some of its critics (those who are unimpressed by claims and arguments about health benefits), seems patently illiberal (and even barbaric). Given the characteristic features of Jewish circumcision — a customary practice which originated as part of an imagined everlasting pact between Jews and their God and by means of which adult members of that community surgically mark the body of all male infants born to members of the group — it is not hard to see how in the eyes of an imperial liberal who assumes the universal pre-eminence of liberal ways of life over illiberal ways of life, this particular familial and communal tradition might be viewed as "the despotism of custom." On the other hand it is also not hard to imagine how in the eyes of a liberal pluralist who makes no assumption about the universal progressive replacement value of liberal over illiberal ways of life, the practice of neonatal male circumcision, even in absence of health benefits, might merely be viewed as an alternative and legitimate way of life "expressive of genuine human needs and embodying authentic varieties of human flourishing" (here quoting John Gray),¹ whose illiberality is not a measure of its lack of moral value. Examined are those two sets of eyes and their view of the practice of male circumcision.

Time's Desire: Literature and the Temporality of Justice

Kertzer, J. — 2009-04-17

This essay examines how the logic and the spectacle of the law jointly respond to Nietzsche's concern that the one condition that baffles the will is the fact that the past is unalterable. The will cannot will backwards, but justice can, in W.B. Yeats's phrase, dream back by devising a temporality to symbolically redeem the past through a passionate knowledge expressed through haunting spectacles of pain (torture) and payment (punishment). The essay analyzes rhetorical strategies in both literature and legal discourse that offer to transcend the irrevocable in ways that satisfy both the ethical and aesthetic demands of justice: the demands that justice be done by being seen to be done. However, bringing aesthetics to the aid of ethics also has the disruptive effect of opening a gap between the two, of exposing an incommensurability that makes moral repair over time conceivable only through unexpected acts of sacrifice and amnesty — a possibility envisioned in J.M. Coetzee's novel, Disgrace .

Valuing All Families

Bell, M. C. — 2009-04-17

Anti-gay marriage amendments proliferate, and current welfare legislation includes coercive marriage promotion programs. This article argues that government sponsorship and promotion of the traditional institution of heterosexual marriage-based family are antithetical to the liberal democratic values that most Americans would claim are foundational principles of their society: liberty and individuality. I suggest that, in order to make the social and legal institution of family consistent with professed public values, it should be transformed from the traditional structure into a new structure that is (1) flexible and customizable, and (2) eligible for direct public support for its role in social reproduction.

Book Review: Arguing with Tradition: The Language of Law in Hopi Tribal Court By Justin B. Richland. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. 176 pp. $40.00 (Cloth). ISBN 0-226-71293-1. $16.00 (Paper). ISBN 0-226-71295-8

Cramer, R. A. — 2009-04-17

Book Review: Cash, Color, and Colonialism: The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgement By Renee Ann Cramer. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, xxi + 234 pages pp. 2005 cloth ($24.95) ISBN 978-0-8061-3671-4. 2008 paperback ($16.95) ISBN 978-0-8061-3987-6

Soderland, H. A — 2009-04-17

Book Review: Homo Juridicus: On the Anthropological Function of Law By Alain Supiot. London, New York: Verso, 2007. 256 pp. $34.95 (Cloth) ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 105 2

Del Mar, M. — 2009-04-17

Book Review: Identity, Crime, and Legal Responsibility in Eighteenth-Century England By Dana Y. Rabin. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 234 pp. $89.95 (Cloth). ISBN 978-1403934444

Stern, S. — 2009-04-17

Book Review: Punishment and Political Order By Keally McBride. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. 194 pp. $55.00 (Cloth), ISBN 978-0-472-09982-5, $19.95 (Paper), ISBN 978-0472069828

Ferguson, K. R. — 2009-04-17

Erratum

2009-04-17

Editorial

Sarat, A. — 2009-01-09

It Makes Nothing Happen: Reasons for Studying the History of Law

Dale, E. — 2009-01-09

In place of the idea that legal history should search for a new grand narrative of law, written to persuade lawyers and judges and change the world, this article suggests that legal historians focus their attention on writing and teaching more particularized histories targeting a popular audience.

The Strait Gate: The Past, History, and Legal Scholarship

Tomlins, C. — 2009-01-09

For many years, history has furnished a conceptual and methodological standpoint, historicism, which scholars have employed to enter into engagements with law. But how do the exponents of historicism — whether conventional or critical — define that standpoint, and what is the nature of the object (the past) that their definitions isolate for contemplation? This essay seeks illumination through counterpoint — an exposition of Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history and its key components: recollection, actualization and constellation. I propose that history can and should be a dangerous form of knowledge, and that Benjamin worked hard to show us how. To make it so, however, requires that one abandon what most forms of contemporary historical inquiry take for granted, history-as-science. To show why, I develop an examination and critique of historicist sense-making in the domain of law, both conventional and critical. I also engage with two recent scholarly attempts to move beyond historicism: how they succeed, where they fail, and what we learn from them.

Schooling: History as Handmaiden

Hilbink, T. — 2009-01-09

An attempt to "make sense of the past" leaves many paths to explore. In this article the author looks back at his work on a constitutional law case challenging the state of Alabama's ban on the sale of "sexual devices." His role in the case was to research and draft a brief that laid out the history of government "interference or non-interference" in private sexual activities. Frustrated by how courts had misused and abused history in the past, the author set out to "school" the court in the "proper" use of history. While the trial court embraced his interpretation of the past, the appeals court mockingly tossed it aside. The article grapples not only with how courts have made sense of the past, but how the author has come to understand the role of history in law, both for good and for bad. At the same time, the author reassesses his own "graduate student hubris" in seeking to defend the purity of history from legal "history-lite" from new perspectives as professional historian and advocate.

Socrates and the Moral Limits of Legal Obligation

Howenstein, M. S. — 2009-01-09

This article presents a critical analysis of Plato's Apology and Crito — focusing on the moral limits of legal obligation that ground both Socrates' resistance to state injustice and his acceptance of his unjust sentence. It does so by juxtaposing Socrates' advocacy of the priority of right action in the Apology to his equally ardent rationalization of legal obligation in the Crito, thereby placing him at a critical juncture in the evolution of western legal thought. Throughout this work, a particularly Heideggerian perspective is used to manifest this transition as clearly as possible.

This article proceeds in four distinct stages. Part one presents the contextual background of Socrates' trial as depicted in the Apology. Part two develops the primacy of justice set forth in the first half of the Crito, and upon this basis recreates the genealogy of legal obligation that crowns this work. Part three raises two paradoxes that haunt these works — those of the apparently contradictory alternatives of "persuade or obey" and the dichotomy of "doing versus suffering injustice." Part four projects the insights so gained onto modern legal positivism and back to ancient Greek tragedy.

American Indian Languages and the Law of Property in Colonial America

Goodman, N. — 2009-01-09

This paper argues for a new view of land transfers in seventeenth-century New England that attends not only to the Puritans' conception of land but also to the competing conceptualization of land by the Indians. To get an historically accurate picture of land transfers, I argue, we must look beyond the existing archive of deeds, charters, and patents, to the artifacts of culture that reside not only in the written language used by the Puritans, but in the spoken language used by the Algonkian Indians as it was represented by writers like Roger Williams and John Eliot in phrase books, grammars, dialogues, and translations.

England's Legal Monsters

Sharpe, A. N. — 2009-01-09

This article offers a history of the English legal category monster, a legal category that entered English law in the mid-thirteenth and survived until the mid-nineteenth century. The aim of the article is to provide a close textual analysis of an otherwise absent legal history and to locate law's monsters, and the anxieties that they suggest, within their appropriate contexts: social, political, religious and legal. However, while the principal aim of the article is to address a lacuna in legal historical scholarship, and perhaps precisely because of this fact, the history to be detailed offers a series of valuable insights for future study, particularly in the areas of legal history, philosophy and feminist theory. While full elaboration of these themes is beyond its ambit, the article will draw attention to four different and specific contexts in relation to which future scholarship might benefit from an historical study of England's legal monsters.

Stories of Pain and the Pursuit of Justice: Law, Violence, Experience and Jurisprudence

Skinner, S. — 2009-01-09

Following Robert Cover's essay on law's "field of pain and death", Austin Sarat and Thomas Kearns have presented the bases for a "jurisprudence of violence," part of which requires including experiential accounts of (law's) violence in legal theory. This article explores these writers' understanding of violence, its relationships with law and the relevance of its experiential impact for jurisprudence, before focusing on two methodological issues. First, it argues that discussion of violence needs to be clearly situated and outlines a conceptual map as the basis for further analysis. Second, it questions the concept of experience in this context and addresses some key problems involved in articulating violent experience in textual discourse.

Book Review: Carpentaria By Alexis Wright, Giramondo: Sydney, 2006. 519 pp. $26.00 (US) $AU29.95 (paperback), ISBN 9781920882310

Birrell, K. — 2009-01-09

Book Review: Ambiguities of Witnessing: Law and Literature in the Time of a Truth Commission 9 By Mark Sanders, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. 257pp. $60 (Cloth), ISBN 978--0-8047--5615--0

Clarkson, C. — 2009-01-09

Book Review: The Holocaust and the Postmodern By Robert Eaglestone, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. $44.00 (paper). 369pp. ISBN 978--0199239375

Crocker, T. P. — 2009-01-09

Book Review: Dead Certainty: The Death Penalty and the Problem of Judgment By Jennifer L. Culbert, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. 248pp. $21.95 (paper). ISBN: 978--0-8047--5746

Golder, B. — 2009-01-09

Book Review: Critique of Security By Mark Neocleous, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. 247pp. $22.95 (paper). ISBN 978--0773534827

Hussain, N. — 2009-01-09

Book Review: The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice By Terry K. Aladjem, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 266pp. $85.00 (Cloth). ISBN 13 978--0521886246

Roberts, R. — 2009-01-09

Editorial

Sarat, A. — 2008-09-01

Thinking Bioethics

Dhadda, B. K. — 2008-09-01

This commentary reflects a broadly deconstructive reading of the relation of law, biotechnology and bioethics in shifting global, biotechnological contexts. I suggest that a reorganization of techno-scientific capital has altered forms of representation as well as mechanisms of expropriation and exploitation. I consider the bioethical implications of biotechnological inventions of living form that have redefined classical categories of thought, the sites of political representation and identity as well as the language of modern law, ethics and politics. I proceed to comment on the globalization of intellectual property rights as an expression of the hegemony of modern law.

Self-contained Bioethics and the Politics of Legal Prohibition

Lezaun, J. — 2008-09-01

Law and bioethics have traditionally expressed an elective affinity. Bioethics has often spoken "in the language of the law," or at least in a pidgin that the law can easily understand, and bioethicists have conceptualized their principles and arguments in ways that make them amenable to legal translation. However, there has always been a tradition of bioethical reflection, what I describe as "self-contained bioethics," that is deeply suspicious of its own readability to legal forms of interpretation; a tradition for which proximity to the law and a consideration of the actual circumstances of legal action compromises the purity of ethical inquiry.

The article examines the work of President Bush's Council on Bioethics on human cloning as an example of this type of bioethical inquiry. In its 2002 report "Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry" the Council professed to keep specific legal and policy options at arm's length to better explore the ethical significance of the issues at stake without being "skewed" by considerations of practical expediency. The article compares the form of bioethical advice produced by the Council with the opinion on human cloning that its predecessor, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC), issued in 1997. In NBAC's report the discussion of the paths of legal action was thoroughly and explicitly integrated into the moral analysis.

Ultimately, the President's Council resorted to the law, understood as an instrument of absolute prohibition, to translate its purified moral argument into social reality in the form of a ban or a moratorium. Yet, by not using legal considerations to focus and refine its bioethical inquiry, and instead resorting to the law merely as a tool of proscription, the Council guarantees that its advice remains as controversial in the short term as ineffective in the long run.

From Bioethics to Bio-optics: The Case of the Embryonic Stem Cell

Shai Lavi, — 2008-09-01

The following paper calls for a shift of views from bioethics to bio-optics, from asking what we should do, to wondering about how things appear and are. It takes as a case study the stem cell controversy and juxtaposes its regulation in Israel and in the United States. As an ethical debate, the embryonic stem cell controversy is often cast as a dispute between liberals and conservatives, scientists and religious fundamentalists. From a bio-optical point of view, however, one may notice a surprising affinity between science and the most extreme religious groups.

Revitalizing Aristotle's Doctrine of Equity

Shanske, D. — 2008-09-01

This article argues for the contemporary relevance of Aristotle's doctrine of equity. Too often, similar arguments make this doctrine relevant by abstracting from the details of Aristotle's position or, conversely, fixating on details without due consideration of the epochal gap that separates us from Aristotle. After an initial survey of these limited approaches, the article proceeds to a more adequate account of Aristotle's doctrine of equity with the help of Heidegger. In particular, what Heidegger offers is a nuanced argument as to why Aristotle's manifest absorption in the concrete details of his face-to-face society is not a limitation to his doctrine, but a strength. We, no less than Aristotle, are enmeshed in logos, in a background ordering not at the command of our will, but we have a greater difficulty seeing this. Thus, where equity for Aristotle above all required expert engagement with logos, equity bids us first to acknowledge that the logos is.

Victorian Precedents: Narrative Form, Law Reports and Stare Decisis

Ben-Yishai, A. — 2008-09-01

Victorian-era law reports are often choppy or truncated, miserly in detail, and utterly lacking in character descriptions, creating what I have identified as an "anti-narrative" style. This article shows how the law reports use narrative conventions — often in counter-intuitive ways — to manifest the tension between a concrete case and the abstract rule which is its potential precedent. Incorporating a discussion of nineteenth-century theories of legal precedent and the history of common law reporting with a formal analysis, I contend that the insular "anti-narrative" form of the reports enables the communal nature and goal of precedential reasoning: the creation of a common law, dating from "time immemorial." It also reveals a legal doctrine — and a narrative genre — in crisis.

"Slender Knowledge": Sovereignty, Madness, and the Self in Shakespeare's King Lear

Harmon, A.G. — 2008-09-01

In King Lear, the English law of madness, especially the aspects of testamentary devises, royal accession, waste, and plunder, is thematized in such a way that the conflict between civil order and savage nature is brought to the foreground. This dynamic overshadows, and to some extent disguises what truly lies at the heart of ancient Britain's woes: a deficit of ontological self-inquiry on the part of the sovereign and his royal retainer, Gloucester, from which all of the other complications ensue.

Dueling Tragedies: A Critical Read of the Lautenberg Story

Morgan, P., Adelman, M., Soli, S. J. — 2008-09-01

Every law tells a story and some of the stories we tell become the law. Conceptualizing law as literature and taking a social science approach, we examine the dynamics of a storytelling contest between the National Network to End Domestic Violence and a coalition of law enforcement professional organizations regarding the most stringent federal gun control legislation in the United States — the 1997 Lautenberg Amendment. Relying upon qualitative content analysis, we discovered that contestants drew upon the same elements of classic tragedy to compose different stories. Our analysis compares the resources and experiences available to each coalition and examines how differences between them affected the stories told. We discuss the role that dueling tragedies play in public policy controversies and evaluate the implications our case study has for understanding the competition for legislation, storytelling research and the conceptualization of law as literature.

Book Review: Lex Populi: The Jurisprudence of Popular Culture By William P. MacNeil. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. 241 pages. $45 (Cloth). ISBN-10: 0-8047-5367-9

Andrejevic, M. — 2008-09-01

Book Review: Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States By Sarah S. Lochlann Jain. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xvi + 214 pp. $57.50 (Cloth). ISBN 978-0-691-11907-6; $22.95 (Paper). ISBN 978-0-691-11908-3

Bryan, B. — 2008-09-01

Book Review: The Constitution of Law: Legality in a Time of Emergency By David Dyzenhaus. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 250 pp. $39.00 (Paper). ISBN 9-780521677950

Lozano, B. J. — 2008-09-01

Book Review: Law as a Means to an End: Threat to the Rule of Law By Brian Z. Tamanaha. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 268pp. $75.00 (Cloth). ISBN: 0521869528

Olarte Olarte, M. C. — 2008-09-01

Book Review: The Language of Liberal Constitutionalism By Howard Schweber. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 386 pp. $96 (Cloth). ISBN 9780521861328

Parrish, R. — 2008-09-01