TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sarat,Austin
AU  - Douglas,Lawrence
AU  - Umphrey,Martha Merrill
TI  - Law's infamy: understanding the Canon of bad law 
T2  - NYU scholarship online
SN  - 9781479812110
AV  - KF8700 .L377 2021
U1  - 347.7312 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - United States
KW  - Supreme Court
KW  - Justice, Administration of
KW  - Judicial process
KW  - Political questions and judicial power
KW  - Law reform
KW  - Constitutional law
KW  - Cases
KW  - Law
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Jurisprudence & general issues
KW  - thema
KW  - Legal history
KW  - Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law
N1  - Also issued in print: 2021; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479812080.001.0001
ER  -