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Law's infamy : understanding the Canon of bad law / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: NYU scholarship onlinePublisher: New York : New York University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (277 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781479812110
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 347.7312 23
LOC classification:
  • KF8700 .L377 2021
Online resources: 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.
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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.

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