Looking Back at Law's Century
Published on 29. May 2002
Book
Hardback
464 pages
978-0-8014-3957-5 (ISBN)
Description
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 rule of law, and the idea of human rights throughout the world. At the same time, law maintained its status as the key language of governance in the United States, the most "legal" of all countries, which has succeeded in making its version of the state a point of reference around the globe.
Reviews / Votes
Rather than a historical survey Looking Back at Law's Century is a series of provocative arguments about the ways that the law shaped and responded to areas of U.S. and international society-for better and worse-during the twentieth century.... Looking Back at Law's Century aggressively crosses disciplinary boundaries between rhetoric, anthropology, history, and political science, enlivening and deepening debates about citizenship, human rights, racial and gender injustice, and the United States in a transnational context.- Lee Bernstein, San Jose State University (H-Net Reviews)
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
907 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8014-3957-5 (9780801439575)
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Other editions
Additional editions
Austin Sarat | Bryant Garth | Robert A. Kagan
Looking Back at Law's Century
E-Book
10/2018
1st Edition
Cornell University Press
€162.99
Available for download
Persons
Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College and President of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. He is the author of When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition. Bryant Garth is Director and Research Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the coauthor, with Yves Dezalay, of The Internationalization of Palace Wars: Lawyers, Economists, and the Contest to Transform Latin American States. Robert A. Kagan is Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include the forthcoming Regulatory Encounters: Multinational Corporations and American Adversarial Legalism.