Law's infamy : understanding the Canon of bad law /
Law's infamy : understanding the Canon of bad law /
edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey.
- 1 online resource (277 pages).
- NYU scholarship online .
- NYU scholarship online. .
Also issued in print: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From 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 to label them as such.
Specialized.
9781479812110 No price
United States. Supreme Court.
Justice, Administration of--United States.
Judicial process--United States.
Political questions and judicial power--United States.
Law reform--United States.
Constitutional law--United States--Cases.
Law.
Jurisprudence & general issues.
Legal history.
Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law.
KF8700 / .L377 2021
347.7312
Also issued in print: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From 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 to label them as such.
Specialized.
9781479812110 No price
United States. Supreme Court.
Justice, Administration of--United States.
Judicial process--United States.
Political questions and judicial power--United States.
Law reform--United States.
Constitutional law--United States--Cases.
Law.
Jurisprudence & general issues.
Legal history.
Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law.
KF8700 / .L377 2021
347.7312