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This book offers the first study of what happens when the public gets to decide on the fate of capital punishment. It will be of interest to the general public as well as scholars.

Focuses on what happens when the American public gets decide on the fate of capital punishment.

Today ownership of weapons poses more acute legal problems than ever before. In this volume, contributors confront urgent questions, among them the usefulness of history as a guide in ongoing struggles over gun regulation, the changing meaning of the Second Amendment, the perspective of law enforcement, and individual perspectives on gun rights.

Today ownership of weapons poses more acute legal problems than ever before. In this volume, contributors confront urgent questions, among them the usefulness of history as a guide in ongoing struggles over gun regulation, the changing meaning of the Second Amendment, the perspective of law enforcement, and individual perspectives on gun rights.

This book examines the meaning and significance of finality in capital cases, deploying various theories and perspectives to open up the meaning and significance of the death penalty's finality to scholarly inquiry.

How human rights are made available and protected in individual countries is an area of much study and debate. This engaging volume focuses on the significance of human rights in American law and politics, and will appeal to a broad range of scholars, practitioners, and students interested in human rights.

Fifty years have passed since the establishment of this multi-disciplinary and rapidly expanding field and since that time, the field has grown to encompass an array of disciplines, methods, perspectives and purposes. Bringing a timely synthesis to the field, The Handbook of Law and Society presents a comprehensive overview of key research findings, theoretical developments, and methodological controversies in the field of law and society. Co...

Bringing together a group of distinguished and disciplinarily diverse scholars, Criminals and Enemies draws on political philosophy, legal analysis, and historical research to reveal just how central the criminal/enemy distinction is to the structure and practice of contemporary law.

Bringing together a group of distinguished and disciplinarily diverse scholars, Criminals and Enemies draws on political philosophy, legal analysis, and historical research to reveal just how central the criminal/enemy distinction is to the structure and practice of contemporary law.

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles in interdisciplinary legal scholarship. This volume features a special section with papers dedicated to law and disability. The chapters examine issues of HIV, obesity, disability rights, assisted suicide and prenatal testing.

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Drawing on the rich field of performance studies, this volume, the most recent contribution to the distinguished Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, offers fresh insights and a provocative mix of multidisciplinary topics and methodologies to explore the theatricality and performativity of law as more than a metaphor.

In this latest edition of this highly successful research series, chapters explore expert witnessing in asylum cases. Topics include: judicial ethnocentrism, political asylum, race identity and cultural defense.

This book will appeal to scholars of law, rhetoric and legal history, with its detailed analysis from a number of respected contributors. It explores new approaches to rhetoric in law and offers new perspectives, contributing to the understanding of the rhetorical structure of judicial arguments and opinions.

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? In this volume the authors argue that in order to understand the death penalty we need to know more about the "cultural lives"-past and present-of the state's ultimate sanction.

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Explores the gray area between the realms of reason and madness.

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