Trials Contributor(s): Sarat, Austin (Editor), Umphrey, Martha Merrill (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0815398611 ISBN-13: 9780815398615 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $109.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Law | Trial Practice |
Dewey: 347.07 |
Physical Information: (2.46 lbs) 606 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This volume gathers a collection of the most seminal essays written by leading experts in the fields of law, and cultural studies, which address the cultural dimension of trials. Taken together, these essays conceive of trials as sites of legal performance and as critical public spaces in which the law both encounters and interacts dialogically with the culture in which it is embedded. Inquiring into the contours of that dialogic relation, these essays trace the paths of cultural stories as they circulate in and through trial settings, examine how trials emerge out of particular social and historical contexts, and suggest ways in which trials themselves, as both singular events and generic forms, circulate and signify in culture. |