Studies in Law, Politics, and Society

by Austin Sarat (Editor)

Overview

This volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" presents a diverse array of articles by an interdisciplinary group of scholars. Their work covers several social science disciplines as well as law. Some of the articles published in this issue examine the interactions of law and "vulnerable" populations. Here research illustrates the complex ways law can be used by those groups, as well as the impact of law on their lives. Other articles focus on indigenous groups and particular legal controversies in which they are involved. Taken together they exemplify the exciting and innovative work now being done in interdisciplinary legal scholarship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787143449
Publisher:	Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date:	05/11/2017
Series:	Studies in Law, Politics, and Society , #72
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College, USA. He is also a Five College Fortieth Anniversary Professor. He has written, co-written, or edited more than fifty books in the fields of law and political science.

Table of Contents

1. To What Extent is Pyler v. Doe an Effective Protection for the Right to Education for Irregular Migrant Children in Contemporary US?; Robbie Eyles 

2. A Brave New British Citizenry? Reconceptualising the Acquisition of British Citizenship by Children; Devyani Prabhat and Jessica Hambly 
3. Symposium on Law and Disability HIV/AIDS, Obesity and stigma: a new era for non-discrimination law?; Peter McTigue, Stuart W. Flint and Jeremé Snook 
4. Putting the "Right to Die" in its Place: Disability Rights and Physician-Assisted Suicide in the Context of US End-of-Life Care; Harold Braswell 
5. Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights: Challenging "Genetic Genocide"; Katharina Heyer

Editorial Reviews

Law scholars explore a number of issues in interactions between the law and the rest of society. They cover commercial leases and family reality in Charles Reznikoff's Family Chronicles; condo crimes and legal prospects for confronting the unusual suspects; the nursery years of "judicial activism:" from a historian's shorthand to media catchphrase; teenage pregnancy, parenting, and abortion: legal limits on adolescents' reproductive rights; "letting kids be kids:" youth voice and activism to reform foster care and promote "normalcy," teen health care decisions: how maturity and social policy affect four hard cases; and transgender children, teaching early acceptance, and the heckler's veto.

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Law scholars explore a number of issues in interactions between the law and the rest of society. They cover commercial leases and family reality in Charles Reznikoff's Family Chronicles; condo crimes and legal prospects for confronting the unusual suspects; the nursery years of "judicial activism:" from a historian's shorthand to media catchphrase; teenage pregnancy, parenting, and abortion: legal limits on adolescents' reproductive rights; "letting kids be kids:" youth voice and activism to reform foster care and promote "normalcy," teen health care decisions: how maturity and social policy affect four hard cases; and transgender children, teaching early acceptance, and the heckler's veto.

Annotation ©2017 Ringgold Inc.

Academics from the fields of law, political science, sociology, and English contribute nine articles exploring the law's interaction with civil society. The articles have been organized by Sarat (law and political science, Amherst College) and Ewick (sociology, Clark U.) into four sections related to: the status of the legal family, punishment, national sovereignty, and theory. Specific topics treated include the politics of same-sex marriage, the legal rhetorical strategies of the notion of "civil" versus "savage," the detection of remorse in relation to sentencing, and the strategies of democratizing forces in Mexico in the past decade. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

Three of this volume's five essays are from the Symposium on Law and Disability. They cover HIV/AIDS, obesity, and stigma: a new era for non-discrimination law; putting the "right to die" in its place: disability rights and physician-assisted suicide in the context of US end-of-life care; and prenatal testing and disability rights: challenging the "genetic suicide." The other topics are the extent to which Pyler v. Doe is an effective protection for the right to education for irregular migrant children in the contemporary US, and a brave new British citizenry: reconceptualizing children's acquisition of British citizenship.

Annotation ©2018

This volume brings together seven essays contributed by political science, law, and religion scholars from Europe, Australia, Israel, and the US, who consider law in the context of religion and social change. In the first section, they examine the interaction between law and religion in terms of religious schools and equality in education in various countries; the Obergefell v. Hodges decision and religious free exercise in the era of Donald Trump; male circumcision, Jewish difference, and German law; and the Sharia debates, religious accommodation, and informal institutional norms in Australia, Canada, and the UK. The second section focuses on how the law enhances and inhibits projects of social change, with discussion of the role of legal intermediaries, the political risks of litigation in American policymaking, and the use of law and legal institutions by the social movement seeking to end Australia's policy of mandatory detention for refugees and asylum seekers.

Annotation ©2019

This volume consists of five essays by scholars working in anthropology, political science, and liberal studies in the US, who apply ethnography to contemporary societal, legal, and political phenomena. They provide case studies of affirmative action at the U. of Michigan; the H-2 visa and adversarial legalism; legal language in the context of the US government and tribal consultations, particularly with the Hopi Tribe and the US Forest Service; place-based governance identity among the civil servants responsible for the California Current large marine ecosystem; and freedom of speech on college campuses, from the perspectives of legal and public policy and using the example of a talk given by Milo Yiannopoulos at the U. of Washington.

Copyright 2019

In this book, editor Austin Sarat presents readers with a collection of academic essays and scholarly articles investigating various aspects of the intersection of law, politics, and contemporary society throughout the world. The six contributions that make up the main body of the text are devoted to comparing accounts of capital punishment in the radical and mainstream press; abortion law, the Supreme Court, and the Republican regime; the legal politics of time in emergencies; gendered racialization and Muslim Americans; and a variety of other related subjects. The editor is a faculty member of Amherst College in Massachusetts.

Annotation

This year's volume contains four papers from the symposium Health and the Law: Protection, Promotion, Paternalism. They cover reproductive justice, vaccine refusal, and the uneven landscape of choice; rights of the un-vaccinated child; policing pleasure: the socio-legal framework for understanding the social control of desire; and data refusal and the problem of group identity. Two general papers discuss the emergence of marriage equality and the sad demise of civil unions, and "community voices" and "speaking out:" rights talk and the LGBTQ community in the 1980s.

Annotation ©2017

Three of this volume's five essays are from the Symposium on Law and Disability. They cover HIV/AIDS, obesity, and stigma: a new era for non-discrimination law; putting the "right to die" in its place: disability rights and physician-assisted suicide in the context of US end-of-life care; and prenatal testing and disability rights: challenging the "genetic suicide." The other topics are the extent to which Pyler v. Doe is an effective protection for the right to education for irregular migrant children in the contemporary US, and a brave new British citizenry: reconceptualizing children's acquisition of British citizenship.

Annotation ©2018

This volume brings together seven essays contributed by political science, law, and religion scholars from Europe, Australia, Israel, and the US, who consider law in the context of religion and social change. In the first section, they examine the interaction between law and religion in terms of religious schools and equality in education in various countries; the Obergefell v. Hodges decision and religious free exercise in the era of Donald Trump; male circumcision, Jewish difference, and German law; and the Sharia debates, religious accommodation, and informal institutional norms in Australia, Canada, and the UK. The second section focuses on how the law enhances and inhibits projects of social change, with discussion of the role of legal intermediaries, the political risks of litigation in American policymaking, and the use of law and legal institutions by the social movement seeking to end Australia's policy of mandatory detention for refugees and asylum seekers.

Annotation ©2019

This year's volume contains four papers from the symposium Health and the Law: Protection, Promotion, Paternalism. They cover reproductive justice, vaccine refusal, and the uneven landscape of choice; rights of the un-vaccinated child; policing pleasure: the socio-legal framework for understanding the social control of desire; and data refusal and the problem of group identity. Two general papers discuss the emergence of marriage equality and the sad demise of civil unions, and "community voices" and "speaking out:" rights talk and the LGBTQ community in the 1980s.

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