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1	Mercy on Trial: What It Means to Stop an Execution more books like this by Prof. Austin Sarat add to wishlist On January 11, 2003, Illinois Governor George Ryan - a Republican on record as saying that "some crimes are so horrendous ...that society has a right to demand the ultimate penalty" - commuted the capital sentences of all 167 prisoners on his state's death row. Critics demonized Ryan. For opponents of capital punishment, however, Ryan became an ... see all copies from £10.59! new only from £10.59! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Looking Back at Law's Century more books like this by Prof. Austin Sarat (Editor), Bryant G Garth (Editor), Robert Allen Kagan (Editor) add to wishlist This book describes a century of tremendous legal change, of inspiring legal developments, and profound failures. The twentieth century took the United States from the Progressive Era's optimism about law and social engineering to current concerns about a hyperlegalistic society, from philosophical idealism to the implementation of democracy, the ... see all copies from £6.77! new only from £8.71! \| first editions
3	When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition more books like this by Prof. Austin Sarat add to wishlist The essays collected here address aspects of America's use of the death penalty. Victims' rights, modes of execution, the issue of televising executions, and other concerns are voiced from Sarat's perspective as one who condemns the death penalty. see all copies from £5.60! new only from £11.36! \| first editions
4	Justice and Injustice in Law and Legal Theory more books like this by Prof. Austin Sarat (Editor), Thomas R Kearns (Editor) add to wishlist Explores the relationship between law and justice see all copies from £9.96! new only from £18.05!
5	From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America more books like this by Charles J Ogletree, Jr. (Editor), Prof. Austin Sarat (Editor) add to wishlist Since 1976, over forty percent of prisoners executed in American jails have been African American or Hispanic. This trend shows little evidence of diminishing, and follows a larger pattern of the violent criminalization of African American populations that has marked the country's history of punishment. In a bold attempt to tackle the looming ... see all copies from £7.03! new only from £13.70! \| signed copies
6	Social Organization of Law: Introductory Readings more books like this by Prof. Austin Sarat add to wishlist Austin Sarat's "The Social Organization of Law: Introductory Readings" begins with a simple premise - law seeks to work in the world, to order, change, and give meaning to society - and describes legal processes as socially organized. This book connects legal studies to the study of society in two different senses. First, the readings highlight ... see all copies from £22.22! new only from £44.45! \| first editions
7	When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice more books like this by Charles J Ogletree, Jr. (Editor), Prof. Austin Sarat (Editor) add to wishlist Since 1989, there have been more than 200 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States. On the surface, the release of innocent people from prison could be seen as a victory for the criminal justice system: the wrong person went to jail, but the mistake was fixed and the accused set free. A closer look at miscarriages of justice, however, ... see all copies from £13.08! new only from £15.43! \| first editions
8	The Killing State: Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture more books like this by Prof. Austin Sarat (Editor) add to wishlist Over 7,000 people have been legally executed in the United States this century, and over 3,000 men and women now sit on death rows across the country awaiting the same fate. Since the Supreme Court temporarily halted capital punishment in 1972, the death penalty has returned with a vengeance. Today there appears to be a widespread public consensus ... see all copies from £5.60! new only from £7.47! \| first editions
9	Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients: Power and Meaning in the Legal Process more books like this by Prof. Austin Sarat, William L F Felstiner add to wishlist Based on over 100 lawyer-client conferences, this text charts the complicated and shifting relationships between lawyers and clients as they work out the strategy and tactics of divorce. As observers, Felstiner and Sarat were present when lawyers and clients confronted the full range of issues that occur during a divorce. This book examines the ... see all copies from £5.60! new only from £18.19! \| first editions
10	Race, Law, and Culture: Reflections on Brown v. Board of Education more books like this by Prof. Austin Sarat (Editor) add to wishlist More than forty years after Brown v. Board of Education put an end to the segregation of the races by law, current debates about affirmative action, multiculturalism, and racial hate speech reveal persistent uncertainty about the place and meaning of race in American culture and the role of law in guaranteeing racial equality. Moreover, all sides ... see all copies from £5.02! new only from £10.23! \| first editions
11 view cover	Law in the Liberal Arts more books like this by Prof. Austin Sarat (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from £7.01! new only from £7.01!
12 view cover	Sitting in Judgement: The Sentencing of White-Collar Criminals more books like this by Stanton Wheeler, Prof. Austin Sarat, Kenneth Mann add to wishlist When judges confront convicted white-collar criminals, their sentencing world becomes particularly complicated. The cases are enormously heterogeneous. It is harder to speak of a typical bribery or securities fraud than a typical drug deal or mail theft. And in white-collar cases, far ore often than in common crimes, matters of intent and ... see all copies from £5.60! new only from £13.90! \| first editions
13 view cover	How Does Law Matter?: Fundamental Issues in Law and Society more books like this by Bryant G Garth (Editor), Prof. Austin Sarat (Editor) add to wishlist The question of how law matters has long been fundamental to the law and society field. Social science scholarship has repeatedly demonstrated that law matters less, or differently, than those who study only legal doctrine would have us believe. Yet research in this field depends on a belief in the relevance of law, no matter how often gaps are ... see all copies from £7.30! new only from £15.22! \| first editions
14 view cover	Cause Lawyering: Political Commitments and Professional Responsibilities more books like this by Prof. Austin Sarat (Editor), Stuart Scheingold (Editor) add to wishlist Why do some lawyers devote themselves to a given social movement or political cause? How are such deeds of individual commitment and personal belief justly executed, given the ideals of disinterested professional service to which lawyers are (in theory, at least) supposed to adhere? What can we learn from such lawyers about the relationship ... see all copies from £7.19! new only from £22.19! \| first editions
15 view cover	Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era more books like this by Prof. Austin Sarat (Editor), Stuart A Scheingold add to wishlist Sarat and Scheingold's book, Cause Lawyering, the first volume of its kind, coined the term for law as practiced by the politically motivated and those devoted to moral activism. The new collection examines cause lawyering in the global context, exploring the ways in which it is influencing and being influenced by the disaggregation of state power ... see all copies from £6.04! new only from £9.65! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Cultural Lives of Cause Lawyers more books like this by Prof. Austin Sarat (Editor), Stuart Scheingold (Editor) add to wishlist This book seeks to illuminate what we call the cultural lives of cause lawyers by examining their representation in various popular media (including film, fiction, mass-marketed non-fiction, television, and journalism), the work they do as creators of cultural products, and the way those representations and products are received and consumed by ... see all copies from £7.45! new only from £7.45!
17 view cover	Dissent in Dangerous Times more books like this by Prof. Austin Sarat (Editor) add to wishlist "Dissent in Dangerous Times" presents essays by six distinguished scholars, who provide their own unique views on the interplay of loyalty, patriotism, and dissent. While dissent has played a central role in our national history and in the American cultural imagination, it is usually dangerous to those who practice it, and always unpalatable to ... see all copies from £7.72! new only from £14.69!
18 view cover	The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment: Comparative Perspectives more books like this by Prof. Austin Sarat (Editor), Christian Boulanger (Editor) add to wishlist How does the way we think and feel about the world around us affect the existence and administration of the death penalty? What role does capital punishment play in defining our political and cultural identity? After centuries during which capital punishment was a normal and self-evident part of criminal punishment, it has now taken on a life of ... see all copies from £9.51! new only from £17.56!
19 view cover	History, Memory, and the Law more books like this by Prof. Austin Sarat (Editor), Thomas R Kearns (Editor) add to wishlist How law uses history and molds memory see all copies from £9.03! new only from £15.47!
20 view cover	Lives in the Law more books like this by Prof. Austin Sarat (Editor), Professor Lawrence Douglas (Editor), Martha Merrill Umphrey (Editor) add to wishlist Examines how the lives of individuals, social groups, and nations are fashioned by their engagement with the law. see all copies from £7.90! new only from £23.11!
21 view cover	Law's Madness more books like this by Prof. Austin Sarat (Editor), Professor Lawrence Douglas (Editor), Martha Merrill Umphrey (Editor) add to wishlist Explores the gray area between the realms of reason and madness. see all copies from £14.49! new only from £23.11!
22 view cover	Trauma and Memory: Reading, Healing, and Making Law more books like this by Prof. Austin Sarat (Editor), Nadav Davidovitch (Editor), Michal Alberstein (Editor) add to wishlist "Trauma and Memory" explores different dimensions of trauma, both its relationship to the social sphere and to group identity, in order to open up new approaches to trauma from a healing perspective. The book's specific focus is doubly unique: first, because of its interest in the tension between collective and individual trauma (in trauma as ... see all copies from £26.29! new only from £42.33!
23 view cover	The Place of Law more books like this by Prof. Austin Sarat (Editor), Professor Lawrence Douglas (Editor), Martha Umphrey (Editor) add to wishlist Shows how law differentiates different kinds of places and invests those distinctions with meaning. see all copies from £23.11! new only from £23.11! \| first editions
24 view cover	Studies in Law, Politics and Society more books like this by Prof. Austin Sarat add to wishlist "Studies in Law, Politics and Society" continues the tradition of annually publishing interdisciplinary research on law with a critical focus that was begun in Research in Law and Sociology and carried forward in Research in Law, Deviance and Social Control. The new title describes an expanded focus and a broader audience of legal scholars who ... see all copies from £9.43! new only from £9.43!
25 view cover	Law in the Domains of Culture more books like this by Prof. Austin Sarat (Editor), Thomas R Kearns (Editor) add to wishlist Explores the relationship between culture and law see all copies from £15.53! new only from £15.53! \| first editions

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